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“How does Herbert’s text come off when read aloud? Superbly!...The listener falls under the mellow sway of these talented voices. The production values here are top-notch. The sound is crystalline...But perhaps the most impressive thing about this production is the way all the neologisms and foreign terms sound so natural and flow so easily—and consistently—off the tongues of the performers.” —SciFi Weekly
“Vance imbues each character with a distinctive voice: his Duncan is a truculent Clive Owen sound-alike, while his Leto (suitably) has the stentorian tones of a self-absorbed Shakespearean actor.” – SciFiDimensions
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“One of the monuments of modern science fiction.”
—Chicago Tribune on Dune
—Galaxy Magazine
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"Rich fare...heady stuff." --Los Angeles Times
THE THREE people running northward through moon shadows in the Forbidden Forest were strung out along almost half a kilometer. Read the first page
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The Joys and Pains of Leto II,
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This review is from: God Emperor of Dune (Mass Market Paperback)
I personally think Herbert could have ended his series here, as he manages to accomplish, with Leto Atreides II, all of the things he didn't manage with Paul. I'm going to reveal a ton of plot here, so bear with me. [Reading a review about what happens and reading the book are two different experiences, anyway, so you won't lose anything by reading what I type here.]At the end of Children of Dune, Paul's son Leto II had merged with the "sandtrout" (larval form of the Dune sandworms) to become a super-human monster who was very close to invincible. It is speculated at the end of that book that he could live for 4,000 years. As God Emperor of Dune opens, it is 3,508 years after the events of Children, and Leto's sandtrout have transformed him into a human-sandworm hybrid, the only such animal in existence. Arrakis is now totally terraformed, and Leto has a tyrant's grip on the empire's dwindling supplies of the spice, melange. Leto is a more powerful telepath than his father, and has the memories of all his ancestors--male and female--upon which to draw. He has become sensitive to moisture, and mostly lives in a citadel near the desert portion of Arrakis. Around him, the Bene Gesserit, the technologists of Ix, and the genetic manipulators of Bene Tleilax continue to weave their schemes in an effort to find his "secret stash" of spice. The God Emperor has transformed society on an unprecedented level. Every world reflects the same pattern of life, and has been frozen by a ban on space travel. Only Leto's "Fish Speakers," an army composed entirely of women, are allowed free travel, and they perform the roles of conquerers and "civilizers." The clever part of forcing humanity into this pattern (which I didn't catch until I had read the book later) is that all of humanity gets to experience what age after age of peace is like. That was a big part of Herbert's story, after all: to show what life would be like for a person dependent upon prescience. And the verdict of that life is boredom. Thrown into this mixture, of course, is a rebel Atreides, Siona, and the continually-reborn Duncan Idaho. They are considered crucial to Leto's breeding program for humanity. There is also a new, female ambassador from Ix, who allows Leto to recall his human side. All in all, there's a lot happening here, but Herbert manages to tell his story briskly. The usual quotes at the beginning of each chapter are usually excerpts from Leto's Journal, and provide (as usual) interesting comments about society and politics. I really enjoyed this book. To get a better, simpler look at Frank Herbert's universe, this serves as a triumphant example.
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It's sooo sloooooow.,
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This review is from: God Emperor of Dune (Mass Market Paperback)
This has to be the most tedious book I have ever attempted to read. Even by the new standards in glacial storytelling set by its predecessors, this stands out as a stupefyingly dull read. After a couple of hundred pages I was forced to start skimming, hoping against hope that something even remotely interesting was about to happen later on: it didn't. You'd have to have the boredom threshold of a slug on valium to make it all the way through this pretentious, verbose bit of authorial self indulgence.
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Great book. Great series. - a review by a long-winded guy,
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This review is from: God Emperor of Dune (Mass Market Paperback)
Dune, the first book in the series, was not "Great" in my estimation. The 2nd & 3rd books in the series are more solidly written, and as a result, easier to get caught up in. This particular book is fairly "thick", in that it is more overtly philosophical & theological than the previous installments. This is not to be taken that it is a struggle to get through... that is, unless you want to be! I really believe that Herbert himself found his voice in the second in the series & had cemented, by the time he penned this book, his worldview & personal religious beliefs. As a result, there is a good deal less "self-excorcism through writing" going on in this book, but a more forceful, commanding tone to it than the previous. If a book is measured by how many perfect sentences are in it (the average book has one if you are lucky), this one is well above average. I have noted 4 or 5 truly magnificent sentences in this book (and I am only 3/4 of the way through). His commentaries on bureaucracies & bureacrats, for example, are brilliant. I would recommend giving this series a 600 page grace period... the payoff is huge. By the time you hit this book, you will be completely consumed.
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