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Dec 08, 2011

Stacey rated it:

I did it, I finished this book, after it sat on the shelf for 3 years with a bookmark stuck in at page 202. Maybe I should say "mired." And all I'd like to say is

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?

Seriously, god. It was like the last season of Lost with the fucking waiting room. Alex Krycek and Scully's miraculous alien baby. The Gilligan movies. Joey getting his own show...

Ugh.

I'm guessing Baby Herbert (or more likely "I'll blast it with my s More...

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Aug 19, 2008

Bashar rated it:

Shitworms of Dune.

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Jan 04, 2008

June rated it:

Years ago as I closed the book "Chapterhouse Dune" I could hardly wait for the next book in the series. Then Frank Herbert had the audacity to die. I thought I would never know what was going on!

Brian Herbert, while not exactly his father, has done a more than adequate job in tying up all the loose ends. In fact, he wrote all of the back stories that had been mentioned in all of the Frank Herbert Dune books. While I may never know if Brian's completion of Dune is what F More...

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Oct 02, 2007

Ampoliros rated it:

I would enjoy a serious response as to how people feel justified in giving this 'book' more than 1 star. I can understand some people would find it entertaining, barely, but as a continuation of the series its an insult right in the face of the fans. The characters are flat cardboard cutouts of their former selves and sometimes of each other. The plot holes are big enough to ride a sandworm through, and the ending is worth of a summer blockbuster film that spends all it time with action and More...

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Mar 24, 2011

Akiko rated it:

I hated this book - if I could give it zero stars, I would.

I know people who love this book just LOVE it... so I tried. I read it almost to the end - with ten pages to go, and I decided that it was really, quite enough for me.

I am really not a sci-fi fan. Clearly. All the ideas of monsters churning through the sand and wearing suits that recycles your body's water. . . yes, I can see how people find this brilliant, but I just found it gross. Sorry, peeps.

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Apr 13, 2011

David rated it:

I did not recognize the legitimacy of Hunters of Dune, the first part of the son's conclusion to the epic of Dune. Deciding to read Sandworms was motivated by curiosity, yes, but more so by completion; even though I was not accepting it as canonical, I did read all of Hunters and so wanted to conclude that story. This book did not raise my appraisal of Brian Herbert. It is, of course, unfair to compare the son's work with the father's, but upon publishing these so-called original Frank Herber More...

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Jan 09, 2008

Teggan added it

This is the worst book that I have ever read in my life. I did so only out of respect for Frank Herbert. I now wish that his son's hands would be crushed in a terrible car accident so that he can't cause any more damage to the Dune storyline. I have to read the first 6 books in the Dune series now to cleanse myself of this crap and remind me why his father's Dune was wonderful in the first place.

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Jan 24, 2008

Diana rated it:

Kinda like a high school reunion...it's fun to see everyone again, but you're REAL glad you're not still in school. After I got over the nostalgia factor, this book was a bit tedious.

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Dec 12, 2008

Frank rated it:

I love Frank Herbert. I love Dune. I have read the original six novels multiple times each. When Brian Herbert and KJ Anderson started writing the prequels, I gave the first one a chance. It was horrible. I didn't read any more. Then the two new novels came out, based on Frank's own notes for the last Dune book, and supposedly bringing the story to its ultimate fulfillment. I read them both, the second being this book.
It's horrible, of course. KJ Anderson and Brian Herbert are not much whe More...

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Jul 11, 2008

Zach rated it:

I have always loved Frank Herbert's Dune series. So it was not surprising that I felt compulsed to buy Sandworms of Dune (SOD), a "sequel" to the Dune series written by his son Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. SoD, like its predecessor Hunters of Dune, is based on Herbert's notes for how he wanted to conclude his 6 volume centuries spanning series. Frank died in 1986, and while his son wrote what I feel was an incredible biography about his father, I think his attempted sequels are s More...

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Aug 30, 2007

Arian rated it:

The "original" Dune series finally came to an end, and now we know why all those prequels had to be written before we could get here.

It's a fitting tribute to - but not an exact match - to Frank Herbert. Brian Herbert cleans everything up nicely.

All the major plot lines came to a satisfactory end, if not a particularly innovative one. The story itself is incredibly gripping, and I think I read the whole thing in two days.

My only complaint is one 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 Hunters 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 f More...

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Jan 25, 2012

Richard rated it:

Another poor effort form Mr. Herbert and Mr. Anderson.
Once again this book reads as if it was assembled from a collection of tidbits. A couple pages written here a few written there. The authors are EXTREMELY repetitious. It as if each section was written as a standalone story. So they wanted to fill you in on what happened outside of this particular section. When they joined all these separate items into a book they did not read it through from beginning to end and cut the repeats.
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Aug 29, 2011

Derrick rated it:

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Aug 10, 2011

Akshay rated it:

Hmmmm... Its a hard thing to do to review this book..
I tried to go into it not as a Dune lover or a purist, simply to read it (and its predecessor) as a closure for this most magnificent series.
For me Dune was and always will be the single best sci-fi book I have ever read and Ive waited a long time to read the final two books.

To be fair Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have done a relatively decent job. Now its not in the same league, I give that and Im sure they do as well - Frank Herbert wa 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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Mar 28, 2011

Drew rated it:

***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

This is part two of Dune 7, or at least Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's interpretation of how Frank Herbert may have intended it based on a supposed outline and notes they'd found of the book. I ripped apart part one of Dune 7, Hunters of Dune, in my previous review, but believe it or not, that book was better and more enjoyable than this one, but not by much. Sandworms of Dune was one of the worst books I've ever read, in terms of plot, pacing, characte More...

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Oct 24, 2011

Ian rated it:

I've approached the Dune prequel/sequel novels with a relatively open mind, recognizing that they weren't written by Frank Herbert and couldn't possibly be expected stand up to the originals. On their own merits, I've found them enjoyable, if a bit lightweight, despite some fairly clumsy writing in spots.

Having said that, I found Sandworms of Dune in particular a bit frustrating, mostly because I could see tiny hints about what the conclusion of the Dune series could have been like if More...

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Apr 06, 2009

Terri rated it:

I didn't finish this book. I couldn't. Much like television (only better), my enjoyment of books comes from a certain level of going to the land of pretend. We love books because it takes our imaginations someplace else.

There is a point in the book where I couldn't suspend my disbelief anymore. The plot for the book had been moving along glacially, and all of a sudden it jumps forward with a plot device that was ridiculous and depended on characters, who were normally exceptionally i More...

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Apr 27, 2008

Monikac26 rated it:

Very disappointed by the ending of the Dune Saga. Although I think it tied into what Brian Herbert has written in the absence of his father, I can't believe that Frank Herbert would have finished such a magical and powerful series with such a weak and predictable ending.

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May 04, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

I think the only positive aspect of Brian Herbert finishing his father's work is that nerds like myself get to find out how he planned the ending. Well, in a fashion. I feel like I read a literary skeleton.

Too bad the finale was utterly ridiculous and disappointing.

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May 22, 2009

Damien rated it:

I liked this novel. I have read all the dune novels by Frank like most of you. YES it is not the same as Frank but come on people. These were notes for crying out loud. I loved the ending, the ending brought tears to my eyes. It was a great ending that I think Frank Herbert would approve of. The only parts that I found were unbelievable or boring was Duncan realizing he was the Kwisatz Haderach and being in the no-ship for who knows how long. They should of gotten them out of the no-ship earlier More...

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Jun 29, 2010

Keith rated it:

This is the second of a series of two books explaining the future of Dune after the Robots appear to be beaten in the previous series. For Dune fans, the 3 trilogies by Brian Herbert, the son of the originator of the series, were much better. In fact they are excellent books. This two-volume set, while interesting in advancing the story with all the characters that we know and love from Dune, seemed to be written by formula. The reason the trilogies and the original Dune were so good was bec More...

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Dec 06, 2009

Joy rated it:

Most of this book is deus ex machina. Character development to support the ultimate quisatz haderach is entirely lacking. As in HUNTERS OF DUNE, the disconnection caused by the chapter-by-chapter switches in storylines results in a book that is as easy to put down as it is to pick up. Too bad, because those storylines could have had momentum if given the chance. One example of crying neglect is the development of Leto II. Several of the main characters from DUNE are regrown from ancient cell sam More...

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Apr 21, 2009

Bryan rated it:

All the familiar characters are there -- Duncan Idaho, Paul Atreides, Leto II -- but it's as if they all passed through some kind of stupidifying field that lowered their IQs by about fifty points and made them start speaking and acting in stilted clichés. This and Hunters of Dune, the other "continuation" of Frank Herbert's Dune series read like novels Frank may have written after a debilitating stroke that wiped out most of his higher brain functions. Actually, no. Even a brain-damag More...

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Oct 06, 2009

Jon rated it:

I cheated and read the first book, the classic by Herbert than jumped to this book. I was on the bargain shelf at Barnes and Noble so I thought I would give it a try. If you don't think you will have the time to read all of Herbert's books, his son and Kevin J. Anderson do a good job of finishing up the story line. It ties the plot of the stories together (from what little I know) very well. They used Herbert's notes to finish up the story line and though it feels different in tone from the orin More...

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Jan 12, 2009

Ned rated it:

Ok, I have been reading the Dune series for 30 year. Frank Herbert is dead but his son is carrying on the tradition well. These aren't GREAT books but they do tell a compelling story and about every 2-3 years I store up the endurance necessary to complete another one. These must be read in just a few days, because the number or characters and plot lines would be overwhelming to keep track of if you took several days off. THIS IS NOT a book to start with, if you are interested, go back and get a More...

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Mar 17, 2009

Rachel rated it:

I hate to leave a book before I finish it. I feel I have a commitment to give each book a chance and see it through to the end. I become very attached to characters.
I really tried to finish this book. I got through the first book in the series on pure momentum from the original Dune series. I really wanted to believe that this was Duncan, but it was not.
If you are so attached to the Dune universe that you can stomach this, than more power to you, but I do not recommend tainting you More...

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Jan 29, 2010

Tresuiri rated it:

I thought this book was an excellent conclusion of the series. Some of the book was redundant, and way too sweet; it reminds me of typical American cinema feel-good plots. Perhaps a stretch from Frank’s original works having darker material and unfinished sub plots. Despite its shortfalls, I tremendously enjoyed the tying together of a lot of loose ends. I also enjoyed the comparison where in the original Dune book we, as the humans encroaching on the planet, originally come and take what More...

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Jul 05, 2010

Kerry rated it:

They need half stars, because this book is four and a half stars. Just a smidge shy of amazing. But close. Chronologically, this ends the Dune series. And I'm not sure what I think about it. I had the same ambivalent feeling when I finished this novel that I had when I finished "Children of Dune" for the first time. Yet I have read "Children" several times since then, and enjoyed each reading. If you have not read ALL of the Dune books, do not read this one yet. Go ba More...

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