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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I want to be the kind of person who enjoys this, but I am not
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
About twenty years ago I read the original Dune trilogy. I had no real desire to go forward having heard the books were not that great. With the Denis Villeneuve film on the horizon I decided to reread the trilogy. That plus finding the Gom Jabbar Podcast has made driving back into these books a real treat.
This is my first foray into God Emperor of Dune. I knew Leto II was going to be a 3500 year old worm god, which sounds ridiculous on the surface, but Frank Herbert is such an amazing writer he makes this premise work!
There is a lot of talking between two characters in each chapter with very little action, but it's still a compelling read that keeps you hooked. Leto II is reading the Golden Path and has the memories and life of every human before him to help again that goal. We get the ghola Duncan Idaho (version 19 I believe) so there's this connection back to the first book and his disgust at how Leto has veered from the Atreides way of life. We learn that Leto has already saved humanity early on in his path (you thought Paul's 60 billion dead jihad was bad, jeez!).
All the Dune books are cautionary tales of some kind of another. This book warns is about the role of stagnation in human civilization, and repeats the need to be wary of charismatic leaders, and the role of religion to control the masses.
There are some discussion of the gender and especially sexuality roles that really feel off (and maybe of it's time since it was published in 1981). They are fairly jarring to the flow of the book, but if you can glance past them it makes for a more enjoyable read.
This is my first foray into God Emperor of Dune. I knew Leto II was going to be a 3500 year old worm god, which sounds ridiculous on the surface, but Frank Herbert is such an amazing writer he makes this premise work!
There is a lot of talking between two characters in each chapter with very little action, but it's still a compelling read that keeps you hooked. Leto II is reading the Golden Path and has the memories and life of every human before him to help again that goal. We get the ghola Duncan Idaho (version 19 I believe) so there's this connection back to the first book and his disgust at how Leto has veered from the Atreides way of life. We learn that Leto has already saved humanity early on in his path (you thought Paul's 60 billion dead jihad was bad, jeez!).
All the Dune books are cautionary tales of some kind of another. This book warns is about the role of stagnation in human civilization, and repeats the need to be wary of charismatic leaders, and the role of religion to control the masses.
There are some discussion of the gender and especially sexuality roles that really feel off (and maybe of it's time since it was published in 1981). They are fairly jarring to the flow of the book, but if you can glance past them it makes for a more enjoyable read.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Half a great sci-fi book, half the plodding political ramblings of a 15-year-old reddit power-user (a bit of a dated reference at this point). I understand how Herbert wanted this to be a bridge between two trilogies (essentially doing away with prescience so that he could play around with political factions and empire-building again, I'm guessing ). Sad thing is, Herbert made an absolute masterpiece with Dune Messiah and he seems to just want to run away from what made that book work so excellently.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
🪱would humanity still love me if i was a worm?🪱