false <![CDATA[Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213426839m/117902.jpg 106 54 The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. DUNE MESSIAH picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: Do all paths of glory lead to the grave? 3634570 book 1969 Dune Messiah total:9382|5:1937|4:3602|3:2921|2:773|1:149| 9382 34551 11153 339 3 4 false false Fri Sep 21 08:15:08 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 08:19:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Sat Dec 20 12:23:11 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 30 03:58:39 -0700 2009
So, last time I had my family murdered by our hereditary enemies, I went into hiding in the desert too, and linked up with the tough native fighters the...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 17 10:35:34 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 10:35:56 -0800 2008
Excellent. Dune and Dune Messiah, together, form a reasonably complete story. Some of it is invalidated and/or retconed by subsequent books (I'm reading Children of Dune right ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 08:35:19 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 13:20:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 13:46:46 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 13:53:37 -0700 2007 Dune was the best thing since the bound codex, right? And I read it about five times over the course of my young-adulthood. And then I read Messiah and was pretty much completely dissatisfied. Not enough to give it a poor rating, since it is interesting (I mean, we all still care about ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Aug 26 05:33:07 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 06:26:38 -0700 2008 4
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Ok here is the deal. If your not sure about starting a series this big, here is what I would do.
1. -- Read the 1st one by Frank Herbert "Dune" if you like it...

2. -- Read the "...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 20:20:04 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 19:48:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 20:36:25 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 11:33:35 -0800 2009
I must admit tha...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Thu Apr 30 23:34:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 21:19:40 -0700 2009 Dune series books to get through, it starts to introduce even more complicating factors in the Dune universe. It follows the Fremen under the political and religious leadership of Paul, resulting in the disaster he has forseen. We see his tortured sister Alia tak...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Jun 20 22:34:15 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 23:03:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 31 07:48:28 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 03:16:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:24:24 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 14:35:09 -0700 2009 here.) I recommend Dune Messiah be read as if it were a part of the first. It completes the life narrative of Paul Atreides. In Dune Messiah, Herbert uses all the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 08:08:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 13:29:16 -0700 2009 The Winds of Dune which is the new sequel to Dune Messiah, so it seemed appropriate to read it again before I started the new one. I discovered that 30 years di...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 20:30:29 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 14:03:46 -0700 2009 3 Dune, this book, and Children of Dune. If you were to read Dune Messiah without knowing anything about it, you would certainly recognize it as a sequel, and would probably guess by the end that there were more books tha...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 23 08:02:36 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 00:50:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 08:12:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 19:14:07 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:14:20 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 22:35:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 08:34:07 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 08:41:35 -0800 2009 uncountable
Paul, having become the inspiration and god of the Fremen of Dune, can hardly bear to live with the jihad conquering the universe in his ...more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon Dec 01 16:15:49 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 20:55:06 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=117902