Mark Cohen wrote:

"The only LeGuin books I ever read were the Dragon ones, many years ago, with F'nar and F'nor and F'lop and F'nan H'ddie and all the rest. I enjoyed, them, as I recall."

I think you're confusing Ursula LeGuin, who writes fairly serious anthropological SF with Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series. Although McCaffrey's books are amusing and enjoyable, they are basically bodice rippers with dragons.