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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
slow-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:
No
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Più bella la prima parte della seconda, gli do *** solo perchè il lettore dell'audiobook è molto bravo.
Letto da Alessandro Parise
Letto da Alessandro Parise
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was so long and I just read up to the equivalent of the first film. It felt like reading a technical manual and was so slow moving
I can understand why this book is lauded so much but I think whoever has read it can objectively say that Frank Herbert doesn't know how to write a proper story - he did not know the meaning of "show don't tell" in the story-telling business. The world he built in Dune was one of the best world-building I have come across in science fiction or fantasy, but he just doesn't know:
1) how to setup mysteries - most of the mysteries (and believe me a world such as he built could have had a lot of mysteries with the plot he had) were revealed nonchalantly by Princess Irulan or by the author himself because he doesn't know how to set them up. There is no sense of danger for any characters ever,
2) how to write characters - all the characters well so dull, speaking/thinking in allegories all the times which doesn't make complete sense. There was no characters in the story that I could connect with. The main character is so one-dimensional and overpowered. And Herbert hides behind the "characters-think-out-loud-some-great-philosophical-deep-thoughts" curtain. This got duller and duller and so unintelligent as the story progressed. Gurney Halleck's purpose was just to say some quotes, which were not even that good. Herbert wanted to write a character like Tyrion from A Song of Ice and Fire, but did not have the writing adroitness for that,
3)how to write battles or conversations - I should not hold this against a writer, but only if he does a good job of writing the before- or after-events of the battle and give us a sense of how grandiose some of the battles he says are going to be or was. He does none of that any justice. He just skips over the major battles. He built up this Emperor as such a powerful figure throughout the book and what did he serves other than to just show how overpowered Paul was. How he was able to defeat the Emperor so easily, he just glossed over those details. He skipped a lot of events which could make the book epic and added a lot of nonsense conversations between characters, who jump from one idea to another without any resolution.
There are other many things that have annoyed me throughout the books, but this is all the time I am going to give to this over-hyped book. This book does deserve a movie, which is coming out this October, just on the basis of sheer scope of the world. The worldbuilding is fantastic, I would never deny that. Let's hope the movie, or the subsequent ones if this becomes a box-office success, does a better job of presenting this fascinating world of desert and Fremen.
1) how to setup mysteries - most of the mysteries (and believe me a world such as he built could have had a lot of mysteries with the plot he had) were revealed nonchalantly by Princess Irulan or by the author himself because he doesn't know how to set them up. There is no sense of danger for any characters ever,
2) how to write characters - all the characters well so dull, speaking/thinking in allegories all the times which doesn't make complete sense. There was no characters in the story that I could connect with. The main character is so one-dimensional and overpowered. And Herbert hides behind the "characters-think-out-loud-some-great-philosophical-deep-thoughts" curtain. This got duller and duller and so unintelligent as the story progressed. Gurney Halleck's purpose was just to say some quotes, which were not even that good. Herbert wanted to write a character like Tyrion from A Song of Ice and Fire, but did not have the writing adroitness for that,
3)how to write battles or conversations - I should not hold this against a writer, but only if he does a good job of writing the before- or after-events of the battle and give us a sense of how grandiose some of the battles he says are going to be or was. He does none of that any justice. He just skips over the major battles. He built up this Emperor as such a powerful figure throughout the book and what did he serves other than to just show how overpowered Paul was. How he was able to defeat the Emperor so easily, he just glossed over those details. He skipped a lot of events which could make the book epic and added a lot of nonsense conversations between characters, who jump from one idea to another without any resolution.
There are other many things that have annoyed me throughout the books, but this is all the time I am going to give to this over-hyped book. This book does deserve a movie, which is coming out this October, just on the basis of sheer scope of the world. The worldbuilding is fantastic, I would never deny that. Let's hope the movie, or the subsequent ones if this becomes a box-office success, does a better job of presenting this fascinating world of desert and Fremen.
adventurous
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No