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Jagers van Duin
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
As part of my endeavour to read all of the Dune novels chronologically, I finally finished Hunters of Dune. And I must say: what a chore! There were many times when I wanted to throw this book in a corner, and now I am somewhat proud I finished it.
Let me be the first to admit: I am a fool. A self-flagellatiing fool. I read this stupid thing years ago when it came out and even then, I hated it. Was this really based on notes made by Frank? Surely not! There are so many contradictions and errors with the Dune canon. I started making a list, but then I thought: what's the point? Indeed, what is the point of this novel, other than scraping in some cash with someone else's ideas?
On a side note: I read all the other novels in English, but somehow , this particular book reached me in the Dutch translation (I'm damned to buy this book again in English), which is an abomination in itself. Not only is it badly and lazily translated, this particular translator (let's call him Frank Hille, for the sake of this review) didn't look at the translations of the other Dune novels, coming up with all new translations for items and places in the Dune universe, or even with no translation at all (all the other novels translate Fremen into Vrijmans, Frank). Combine this with many typos and you know you can only rate this book one star, two tops.
Redeeming factors for not giving a 1-star rating? I was really really curious about what happened next after the 'real' novels and this book somehow delivered.
But why stop there? Why not a whole army of Paul Atreideses? Or Duncans?
You know, I was about to give this a 2-star rating, but typing all of this made me realise it just isn't worth more than one star. Good job, Kev.
Only one novel left. I don't think I'll be starting on that one any time soon.
Let me be the first to admit: I am a fool. A self-flagellatiing fool. I read this stupid thing years ago when it came out and even then, I hated it. Was this really based on notes made by Frank? Surely not! There are so many contradictions and errors with the Dune canon. I started making a list, but then I thought: what's the point? Indeed, what is the point of this novel, other than scraping in some cash with someone else's ideas?
On a side note: I read all the other novels in English, but somehow , this particular book reached me in the Dutch translation (I'm damned to buy this book again in English), which is an abomination in itself. Not only is it badly and lazily translated, this particular translator (let's call him Frank Hille, for the sake of this review) didn't look at the translations of the other Dune novels, coming up with all new translations for items and places in the Dune universe, or even with no translation at all (all the other novels translate Fremen into Vrijmans, Frank). Combine this with many typos and you know you can only rate this book one star, two tops.
Redeeming factors for not giving a 1-star rating? I was really really curious about what happened next after the 'real' novels and this book somehow delivered.
Spoiler
The revelation of the origin of the Honored Matres, the idea of making 2 or even dozens of gholas (which might have been Anderson's idea).But why stop there? Why not a whole army of Paul Atreideses? Or Duncans?
You know, I was about to give this a 2-star rating, but typing all of this made me realise it just isn't worth more than one star. Good job, Kev.
Only one novel left. I don't think I'll be starting on that one any time soon.