Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Dragonriders of Pern much better

Anne McCaffrey told this story first, and much better, with her Dragonriders of Pern series. Several plot elements within the two stories are so similar that Martin and Tuttle must have been "inspired" by the Pern series. However, McCaffrey fleshes out her world in such a way as to make it seem much more believable than the Windhaven world. Pern's characters are also much better developed than those in this story. It was a disappointment to me to find I was reading a "Pern-lite" novel rather than an original story.Pern gets 5 stars. My suggestion: read McCaffrey's novels instead.