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3.0 to 3.5 stars. After loving the first five books in the series, I was a little disappointed in this last installment of the Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert. While I have always been a big fan of Herbert's heavy use of dialogue and philosophical argument to advance the themes of the story, I thought that its use in this volume was not as crisp and felt a bit too plodding. That said, I did like it and it is certainly not a bad book, but it does suffer in comparison to the previous installments
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I'm not sure what other people are reading that they give this so many stars. I haven't really liked a Dune book since the first one. This was my final attempt at the series. I'll probably re-read Dune many times in my life but I'll treat it as a standalone.
I actually really liked the sections on the Great Honored Matre. Unfortunately, these were usually about 4-5 pages in between 60 pages on Odrade that made me want to gouge out my eyes. For every event in the book (outside of the one battle), ...more
I actually really liked the sections on the Great Honored Matre. Unfortunately, these were usually about 4-5 pages in between 60 pages on Odrade that made me want to gouge out my eyes. For every event in the book (outside of the one battle), ...more
Apr 14, 2009
John
marked it as to-read
Eh
