Worm Sign Or Just A Can Of Worms

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	• Sandworms of Dune Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Tor Books, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 128 reviews view larger image
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Worm Sign Or Just A Can Of Worms

Well, I just completed the last of the nearly 7000 page, 14 book tome known as the Dune series that started with Dune's first printing in 1965. It took three days to devour nearly 500 pages in the final (?) conclusion of an immense portrait,a grand symphony of humanity that spans nearly 15,000 years.

Who is the real, the final, Kwisazt Haderach? How do the Sandworms and Shai'Halud really survive? How necessary was spice in the shaping of a future humanity and the real Kwisazt Haderach? What is the fate of the splintered sisterhood? How does the Spacing Guild finally figure into all of this? What is the endgame outcome of the Teilaxu, their face dancers and their memory restored gholas? What's at the conclusion of the Golden Path...what did Leto II really see...was it real or was it incomplete and thus just another illusion? Or both? And those AIs, those terrible AIs, what is to be their fate?

For all you still aching to know, you will have to read it to find out.

Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are more than competent writers, but they are not the great author Frank was who first penned one of the penultimate works of fiction ever with its numerous and complex inter-related web of exotic spiritualities, psychologies, philosophies, technologies, and science embodied in the individuals, societies, and forces that inhabited one hellofva great story. The conclusion was fleshed out, as Brian Herbert claims, from Frank's final outline notes uncovered shortly after his death.

The final chapter in this saga, as with all things, will please some, and disappoint others. It did both for me, because I wanted to see a different humanity...a transformed humanity...and their was a different one, but just how different, how believable and pervasive was this transformation? Maybe only Frank Herbert with his enormously skillful, intuitive and creative understanding of the vast web of intracies in human relationships and how they function in societies merging and conflicting with philosophies, spiritualities,and technologies could adequately bring humanity to a fruition and wholeness that perhaps only Frank could flesh out in a totally credible (believable)end. For myself, I would have did it a bit differently than Brian Herbert and Mr. Anderson did, but then so would have untold others. In the end I gave this effort four stars because the "apprentices" made an honest-to-goodness attempt to flesh out the Great Master's ideas sans the Great Master, perhaps an impossible task.

As for what else can be said...for those who feel a sort of sadness at the conclusion of this long journey, I say only may Shai'Halud clear the path before you.

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Anxiously waiting!

I have waited years for a conculsion to the Dune series and now I finally have it. The prequels and subsequent sequels have been very much in keeping Frank Herbert's originals and have fed my hunger for more! I look forward to yet another thrilling read.

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A good finish to a great story

I've read every book in the Dune universe and I thought that this book was a satisfying conclusion to the storyline. Whether or not you like Brian Herbert's style as versus that of his father I think it was a good story over all.

I would not recommend it for persons who haven't read any of the books in the series before as it really won't be as significant. If you haven't read the series I highly recommend it.

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another great story in the epic dune series! i must for any dune fan!

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