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alanmar37 's review for:
Hunters of Dune
by Brian Herbert
I read the official 6 Dune books about 20 years ago. I didn't fully appreciate them then, but knew they were good and eagerly bought up and read the 6 prequels, then the 2 books that were supposedly Dune 7. A couple months ago I wanted to start rereading Dune, but thought maybe I'd start with The Butlerian Jihad. But wow, that book is terrible, so I put it aside and went straight to Dune. So good. So were the others (okay, Children is a slog, but necessary). And surely the Dune 7 books must be okay - I liked them the first time and they were based on Frank Herbert's notes.
The whole of the real Dune series is about humanity maturing, improving itself - reducing the need for wars, pettiness, petulance. Chapterhouse has a whole plot line about getting the Bene Gesserit to stop referring to the Honored Matres as "whores".
Imagine my surprise, then, when I started this book and it seemed to be attempting to set a record for the use of the word "whore". And what happened to subtelty, and shifting first person views? Now I'm stuck with third person omniscient, immature Bene Gesserits (a complete oxymoron), and surface deep characters? So disappointing; it's the opposite of maturation. It's embarrassing...for me. I gave these hack writers my money and encouraged the cheapening of the Dune universe. At least these books help highlight just how great Frank Herbert was.
The whole of the real Dune series is about humanity maturing, improving itself - reducing the need for wars, pettiness, petulance. Chapterhouse has a whole plot line about getting the Bene Gesserit to stop referring to the Honored Matres as "whores".
Imagine my surprise, then, when I started this book and it seemed to be attempting to set a record for the use of the word "whore". And what happened to subtelty, and shifting first person views? Now I'm stuck with third person omniscient, immature Bene Gesserits (a complete oxymoron), and surface deep characters? So disappointing; it's the opposite of maturation. It's embarrassing...for me. I gave these hack writers my money and encouraged the cheapening of the Dune universe. At least these books help highlight just how great Frank Herbert was.