A great addition to Dune - but not as good as F. Herbert

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	• Sandworms of Dune Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Tor Books, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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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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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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DUNE THE COMPLETE SET

Sandworms of Dune, the original work, and the pre-quills are magnificent. I have read all the books, ordered through Amazon, and its been a life changing experience. The concepts of space travel, other memory, as well as the character development have allowed me months of enjoyable reading. I totally recommend the original books, the prequils and the final two books after ChapterHouse Dune.

A great addition to Dune - but not as good as F. Herbert

Loved this book! That being said, compared to the 6 novels writted by Frank Herbert this is much lower quality writing. (but most is compared to the master Frank Herbert) The style of the writers is more akin to popular scifi writing, but it does further the plot of Dune and takes it to some interesting places. This and its companion book take place after book 6 of Dune and are allegedly based upon notes they found in a deposit box written by Frank Herbert on the final installment of Dune which he never wrote. In addition to continuing the Dune plot line, it also brings in themes from the prequels to Dune written by Brian Herbert detailing the Butleterian Jihad and machine/human divide.

Not really a spoiler, becuase it's on the cover... but by the end of this book you will have read about sandworms in water. Exciting stuff.

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At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past--including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine. This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbert?s Dune series has enough surprises and plot twists to please even the most demanding reader.

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