I read perhaps the first handful of the "Dragonriders" books in my mid-late 20s, and I found them wearing thin pretty quickly, but I can see why they were so successful as young adult novels. (I've never read Harry Potter, but it sounds like I'd find it to be vastly preferable reading.)
"The White Dragon" was the last of the series that I bought, and I gave up on it after about 40 pages; pretty damn near every noun in the book was preceded by an adjective, and it...well, it left me at a loss for adjectives. (The book read like she wrote it for a penny a word.)
On the other hand, though, I just picked up a hardcover copy of the compilation of "Dragonflight," "Dragonquest," and "The White Dragon" for my sister (Edit: She's 66.), whose original hardcover disintegrated from having been read repeatedly.
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