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Aug 14, 2008

Bashar rated it:

Jesus! Does the writing suck! So much annoying exposition, plot lines that go nowhere, and a predictable ending. Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are very far from the caliber of writer that Frank was. But the most annoying part is that they hardly impart any terror or horror in their representation of the 'Enemy'. Unfortunately, I can't help but read it because it's Dune and I have an obsessive need to know what happens next.

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Sep 08, 2007

Kathryn rated it:

I volunteered to be a pre-reader for the Endeavor Awards this year. This was one of the books I was assigned. I hadn't read any Dune since the first two books back in college--so 20 years ago or so.

This was one of the most disgusting and badly written books I've ever read. From the complete lack of emotional impact as an entire planet is turned to slag, to the shallow "Sex Wars" theme that didn't do well by either women or men. The pace was stilted, the characters cartoonis More...

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Dec 12, 2007

Vik rated it:

The long awaited 'final' book in the brilliant Dune series. The story picks up from where Chapterhouse Dune ended. The final story is fairly large so it has been split into two books.

The history of the Honoured Matre's is explained although the mysterious super Face Dancers still appear to be holding all the cards. The Bene Gesserit are also now the sole suppliers of spice with many intrigues and naturally things come to a head with the Honoured Matre's. The Bene Tleilax are now all More...

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Feb 01, 2008

Tbrierly rated it:

After being very disappointed with Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's "Legends of Dune" series, I'm glad to say that this book is the truest to Frank Herbert's style and vision that I've seen yet out of BH&KA. Based on an outline by Frank Herbert for the seventh Dune novel found in a forgotten safe deposit box (how's that for life imitating fiction?), you can often forget that it isn't Frank Herbert at the typewriter. If you liked Dune, and especially if you liked the last two books More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Hanjinax rated it:

I've read all of the books by Hebert Jr. and Anderson. I've enjoyed them all because I like the Dune universe and it was fun to read about what came before. Still, these guys have always lacked a certain something, their writing cannot compare to the late great Frank Hebert. Hunters is new territory as our intrepid authors pick up where Frank's story left off after Chapterhouse Dune. I think this was the best written of all the Anderson/Hebert books, I don't know if it was just having some More...

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Mar 27, 2009

Guy rated it:

(Note: don't bother reading this if you've read what I wrote about Sandworms of Dune. It's the same thing.)

I recently revisited Frank Herbert’s entire Dune series for the first time in close to twenty years. I re-read Dune itself every few years, and it’s among the most brilliant and imaginative books I’ve ever read, science fiction or not. I recall being underwhelmed by the remaining books in the series. Upon rereading them, however, I came to realize how much of my problem with the More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Jeff rated it:

Scott Brick is a fine reader and I've been a Dune fan since discovering the first three novels back in the '70's. But Hunters of Dune just doesn't capture my interest like I thought it would. The peripheral action and characters are more interesting than the main thread.

The description of the stolen No Ship, Uxal's horrible predicament with the Face Dancers and the Mother Commander, the increasingly and inevitably threatened position of the Spacing Guild, the remaking of Chapterhou More...

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Aug 15, 2011

Craig rated it:

I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. Possibly, though, that's more due to the fact that it's a "we're finally going to see what happened!" than any actual positives this book might possess. Because, frankly, that isn't a terribly long list. Do I use too many adverbs? I think so.

The writing style is still dry and repetitive. The chapters are still too damn short. Everything just feels clunky and ill-shaped. And I can't help but find it strange that it bot More...

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May 06, 2011

Jeff rated it:

If you are looking for a true sequel to Chapterhouse Dune....this isn't it.

Yes, it is technically a continuation of the original Dune Saga, and picks up where Chapterhouse left off. But Brian Herbert simply cannot fill his father's shoes. It isn't necessarily that he is a horrible writer...he's just a mediocre one. Almost any other writer would pale in comparison to Frank Herbert too.

So instead of feeling like something epic and deep, it feels like something interesting More...

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Nov 20, 2009

Leila rated it:

Recommended ONLY for Dune fanatics who MUST know how the saga ends. Oh this book is baaaaaaad. the writing is sub-par, but that is to be expected of these authors if you've read any prior works. The WORST, most inexcusable part of this book is...

<SPOILERS?>
...the way they ruin the bene gesserit.

These women are supposed to be the strongest, slyest, most intelligent creatures in the universe! This story depicts them as not being able to intuit things better tha More...

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Nov 07, 2009

John rated it:

*Same review for the Dune Universe*
GREAT books! VERY time consuming! Worth the time!

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 "Legends Of Dune" series. Its 3 books written by Frank's son Brian and a author I really like by the name of Keven J. Anderson. Its a prequel that is so far in the past that it doesn't spoil More...

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Apr 21, 2009

Bryan rated it:

I hope I live a very long time, but I know that someday, like all human beings, I must die. Nobody knows what happens next. I hope there's an afterlife. If there is, and if, in the afterlife, you get to meet all the people who have lived before, throughout human history, then I hope I get to meet Frank Herbert. When I do, I will fall on my knees and beg Frank for his forgiveness, for having wasted any amount of my life reading this ridiculous, insipid trash posing as a Dune book.

I th More...

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Nov 20, 2007

Spooky rated it:

I'm glad I read it, but Brian Herbert's style is so different from his father that it's almost an entirely different series. Brian Herbert is more "Star Wars", where his father was much more Poe, in that Frank Herbert gave his writing a lot of depth. This book seemed to drag on, and I kept waiting for it to get to the point...

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Jan 21, 2012

Jimmy rated it:

The "Ithaca" piloted by Duncan is folding in unknown parts of space, in order to escape the tachyon net of the old man and the old woman. The Spacing Guild Administrators go to Ix, to find a way to pilot their ships without the aid of spice (desperately needed by the Navigators), because of what Murbella has demanded from them and what she will not give. Because of the Guild's help to the Honored Matres in destroying Rakis, the Guild will get no spice unless they prove their loyalty to More...

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Jan 07, 2010

Reid rated it:

This book and the next (Sandworms of Dune) could easily have been one book. Anderson and Herbert draw out the story far more than was necessary. Hunters is essentially all reintroduction (definitely needed after such a long wait since the excellent Chapterhouse: Dune) and delay. The "reveal" at the end is the identity of the Enemy, the force that scared the Honored Matres so badly. It was not a big surprise to me; I suspected who the Enemy was since I read Heretics and Chapterhouse. Th More...

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Apr 27, 2009

Andre rated it:

I have truly enjoyed reading the expanded series. This tome and Sandworms of Dune have been out for some time now, but I have waited to read them...wanting to savor them, appreciate them for what they were: the last link to a late great author. FH had an amazing mind and was a seriously awesome storyteller, and though these last two volumes were not penned directly by Frank, I appreciate the tack his son Brian and Kevin Anderson have taken. That is, that they have not attempted to re-create FH's More...

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Mar 21, 2011

Drew rated it:

***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Marketed and hyped as part one of the long lost Dune 7, which was to be Frank Herbert's conclusion to his incredible and essential Dune saga, Hunters of Dune is neither essential nor overall faithful to Frank's vision. When he died in 1986 after the publication of Chapterhouse:Dune (the 6th book in the series), fans were left with an open/cliffhanger ending that left us asking so many questions as to the identities of the mysterious watchers Marty and Daniel, More...

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May 24, 2009

Gino rated it:

Dune is a wonderful and complex series of stories dealing with many challenging ideas of politics and religion.

That being said I chose not to reread any of the original novels before reading this one. Amazingly this novel had none of the insights and complexities that made the original novels great. However given the scope of events and time that passes in the novel I can't for the life of me see this book as a bad thing. No novel written such as this one and it's sequal could have the More...

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Apr 09, 2007

lesmana rated it:

What a waste of perfectly good hours. Only herculean effort can make Frank Herbert's Dune universe this mundane and banal. It's like somebody stole the Mona Lisa and drew over it in crayon.

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Aug 29, 2011

Derrick rated it:

The immediate sequel to Chapterhouse. I liked it, a lot! Follows the escaped no-ship, which breeds some gholas of Dune's past, and Murbella, who rises to unite the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Maitres against the Enemy who drove the HM's into the Old Empire. Meet Norma Cenva, who is the Oracle of Time now, and Omnius and Erasmus, who survived and for the past 15,000 years have been building up forces to once and for all wipe out humanity. Very complex threads. The 2 prequel trilogies are a must More...

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Feb 04, 2010

Cheryl rated it:

OK, so I'm a huge Dune fan.

This novel is full of the expansive richness we've come to know. Pieces are pulled together from all over the universe. I had trouble putting this down.

I admit, there were a couple of things that concerned me. For instance, there were times that I wondered whether the woman-hater side of the authors had come out. However, the characters have never been presented as "good little Christians" and there was plenty of evil to go aroun More...

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Jan 03, 2012

Jimmy rated it:

The "Ithaca" piloted by Duncan is folding in unknown parts of space, in order to escape the tachyon net of the old man and the old woman. The Spacing Guild Administrators go to Ix, to find a way to pilot their ships without the aid of spice (desperately needed by the Navigators), because of what Murbella has demanded from them and what she will not give. Because of the Guild's help to the Honored Matres in destroying Rakis, the Guild will get no spice unless they prove their loyalty to More...

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Jan 03, 2012

Jimmy rated it:

The "Ithaca" piloted by Duncan is folding in unknown parts of space, in order to escape the tachyon net of the old man and the old woman. The Spacing Guild Administrators go to Ix, to find a way to pilot their ships without the aid of spice (desperately needed by the Navigators), because of what Murbella has demanded from them and what she will not give. Because of the Guild's help to the Honored Matres in destroying Rakis, the Guild will get no spice unless they prove their loyalty to More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Yves rated it:

Après avoir lu La Maison des Mères il y a quelques années, j'attendais avec impatience la suite du cycle de Dune. Avant de lire ce tome, j'ai lu la trilogie Avant Dune et la Trilogie La Genèse de Dune de Brian Herbert et Kevin J. Anderson. Honnêtement, j'ai eu bien du plaisir à lire ces six livres. Plusieurs ont été déçu parce que le style des auteurs ne ressemble pas à celui de Frank Herbert. C'était évident que les nouveaux livres ne seraient pas aussi bon que les originaux. Je ne m'était More...

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Feb 01, 2009

gabrielle rated it:

loved the original _Dune_ but never really got into the follow-up novels. I've enjoyed the "prequels" that Brian Herbert wrote about the Butlerian Jihad etc. This one, I don't know. The story itself has promise, but he's sort of ham-handed with the writing. I feel like there were incidents that could have been alluded to in a different way, that perhaps would not make me feel like my copy of the book was missing a few paragraphs. (OK, he's not his father, he acknowledges that in t More...

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Jan 19, 2009

Dustin rated it:

Personally, I was less than thrilled with the two prequel trilogies. Compared to something like Tolkien's world, where the distant past was made up of epic poems and short tales, I found the prequels almost distracting in their "present-tense detail." In reading the dune books, I never needed to know about the details of the Butlerian Jihad, or the specifics of the original split between House Atreides and House Harkonnen. These were just things that were, the past was past, lets move More...

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Oct 10, 2008

Bob rated it:

In Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse Dune (for which this book is intended to be a posthumous sequel penned by his son), the author cast out a complex web of characters and plot lines. Perhaps, however, too complex; like a tachyon net.

Brian Herbert (Frank's son), with the help of Kevin Anderson, galantly attempts to trot us along each of these character threads, overlapping and weaving them together to make an interesting and satisfying read. Unfortunately, the span of Herbert senior's s More...

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Sep 18, 2008

Bricksed rated it:

Oh god.

Anyone who has read any of the books of the original series--the ones that Frank Herbert wrote--will know what travesties of supposed science fiction are Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's contributions to the Dune universe.

One of the many things which greatly endeared me to all of Frank Herbert's writing, and not just the Dune chronicles, was the absolute skill and efficiency with which he wrote his prose. What truly struck me was how he wielded his pen like a More...

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Dec 25, 2008

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May 12, 2008

Gregory rated it:

It is with great regret that I say that this book just isn't that good. I have been a devoted fan of the Dune novels ever since I read the original Dune when I was twelve years old (I didn't really understand the book at the time but would reread the book every few years, comprehending and appreciating more each time) and have subsequently read every single one of Frank Herbert's Dune books and Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's two wonderful prequel trilogies as well. The trilogy set far before More...

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