I like it too-- well, I did when I was younger, anyway-- but even then it annoyed the heck out me that Mirrim was such a bitch. I really liked her in Dragonsong and was thrilled that she impressed a fighting dragon, but I think that was, in retrospect, too much feminism for McCaffrey and her brain overloaded or something, because once Mirrim gets a fighting dragon, she becomes completely hateful and everyone else starts saying "Yeah, she really needs to get laid and then she'll be a good little girl again."

I also recall a bit in some book where the Weyrleader is looking for "boys with homosexual tendencies" to impress green dragons. Uh, so who are the blue and brown dragonriders having sex with, if not the green riders? Since the green dragons are female, does that mean that their riders are all bottoming, and so only the bottoms are actually being gay when everyone is having gay sex? Does being a top mean that it counts as heterosexual even if it's two men? Inquiring minds want to know.