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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780441102679 ISBN: 0441102670 Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 435 Publication Date: July 01, 1987 Publisher: Ace Studio: Ace Editorial Review: Product Description: Now--the conclusion to Frank Herbert's l3-million-copy epic masterpiece. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed, and the heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. "Impressive...the whole saga will be one of the monuments of modern science fiction."--Chicago Sun Times. TP: Berkley. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - He Should Have Stopped After the Second One...An alert reader may well ask, if I thought the last four books in this series were that bad, why did I read them all? That's a darn good question. Well, I read the original "Dune" in high school some 30 years ago, and I have re-read it a couple of times since, considering it to be a true masterpiece. The sequel, "Dune Messiah," is every bit as good, and I agree with some interpretations that this novel should be considered a companion novel or extension of the original "Dune," ... Read More Rating:  - Frank Is a Great WriterI enjoy everyone of the Dune books, and the sequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I always love to read any Dune books on my free time. Rating:  - Frank's Dull Years?Of the Dune Chronicles, this was the hardest to read enthusiastically. I enjoyed Heretics, because I really liked Teg and Sheanna a lot. The only saving grace this novel has for the first half is Duncan, leaving the Great Honored Matres, Scytale, and Odrade to make the story happen. The new characters in this story provide very little of interest, and the characters surfacing from diaspora are even more lame. The second half of the book gets much more interesting, but barely saves this story. The last 100 ... Read More Rating: - Alas, we come to the end of a fantastic series.In Chapterhouse Dune, the usual players are back with the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilaxu coupled with the Honored Matres, who are hell-bent on destroying everything in their path coming back from Leto the Second's Great Scattering. Previously, the reader briefly meets the Honored Matres, the corrupt offspring of the Bene Gesserit sent out into the Scattering and Heretics of Dune ends with the capture of a valuable Honored Matre in Murbella. Fast forward to the present and Murbella is becoming more and ... Read More Rating: - American Gothic, Face Dancers, or What?It appears at God Emperor Leto II's Golden Path has brought the destruction of not only Dune, but humanity itself. The Bene Gesserit are, slowly, turning their beloved planet Chapterhouse into a haven for sandworms, but the whorish Honored Matre's are breathing down their neck and the ax is raised. The last of the Atredies must find a way to escape into the Scattering or be trapped forever beneath the thumb of a chaos worse than any that has come before... This book is slow, tedious, confusing, ... Read More |
