false <![CDATA[House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178131219m/761575.jpg 761575 25 Acclaimed SF novelist Brian Herbert is the son of <i>Dune</i> author Frank Herbert. With his father, Brian wrote <i>Man of Two Worlds</i> and later edited <i>The Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune</i>. Kevin J. Anderson has written many bestsellers, alternating original SF with novels set in the <i>X-Files</i> and <i>Star Wars</i> universes. Together they bring personal commitment and a lifelong knowledge of the Dune Chronicles to this ambitious expansion of a series that transformed SF itself. <I>Dune: House Atreides</I> chronicles the early life of Leto Atreides, prince of a minor House in the galactic Imperium. Leto comes to confront the realities of power when House Vernius is betrayed in an imperial plot involving a quest for an artificial substitute to melange, a substance vital to interstellar trade that is found only on the planet Dune. Meanwhile, House Harkonnen schemes to bring Leto into conflict with the Tleilax, and the Bene Gesserit manipulate Baron Harkonnen as part of a plan stretching back 100 generations. In the Imperial palace, treason is afoot, and on Dune itself, planetologist Pardot Kynes embarks on a secret project to transform the desert world into a paradise. <p> <I>Dune</I> remains the bestselling SF novel ever, such that three decades later no prequel can possibly have the same impact. Yet in <i>House Atreides</i> the authors have written a compelling, labyrinthine, skillfully imagined extension of the world Frank Herbert created, which ably commands attention for almost 600 pages. It is powerful SF that continues a great tradition, and in itself is a very considerable achievement. <I>--Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk</I> 711892 1999 House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1) total:2232|5:427|4:652|3:718|2:290|1:145| 2232 7622 2738 97 4 1 false false Thu Aug 16 22:09:53 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 23:14:19 -0700 2007
Despite this, Brian Herbert doesn't recreate the same world his father did. Certain things fe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 07 20:44:49 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:44:49 -0800 2009 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...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 13:31:33 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 20:25:25 -0800 2009 1 Dune is one of my all-time favorite books, and this is a great addition to the canon.

It's so exciting to learn the histories of the well-loved characters of Dune. Brian Herbert's writing style is very similar to his father's, so the book (and the whole prequel trilogy) doesn't seem out ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 25 18:15:07 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:24:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 19:01:19 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:44:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu May 15 05:44:39 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 06:03:43 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 22:00:47 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 14:55:28 -0800 2008 The Literary Snob

My brother-in-law and friend is an avid reader, even more than myself. Our reading tastes overlap somewhere in the middle and go in two very different directions. For years he has been trying to convince me to read Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and other ...

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There's a few ways to do a good prequel. The easiest is to throw it back so far in time that pretty much *anything* could result in the world your readers are expecting. The second way is to hit th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 04 13:31:43 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:22:32 -0700 2007 Gone With The Wind.

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This book covers a timeline much closer to the original Dune itself, about 30 years prior to it, when Leto is just a small boy. Obviously, the book deals heavily with the A...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 22 20:30:22 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 20:47:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Apr 23 01:57:04 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 02:51:36 -0700 2008
so, i was very happy with this book, having n...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 01:07:56 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:40:33 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=761575