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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781427203151 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, CD ISBN: 1427203156 Label: Macmillan Audio Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Number Of Items: 13 Publication Date: June 24, 2008 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release Date: June 24, 2008 Studio: Macmillan Audio Editorial Review: Product Description: More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall . . . Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Dune 4 ... 3000 years in the makingI remember the first time I read through this story. It was 1982, and my daughter had just been born, and I could only get in a few pages per night. The book seemed to drag on, and on, and on. It was as though it took me 3,000 years to read it. Oh wait, that's part of the plot. The tedium of knowing the future, and living out the rote script. The ultimate boredom of an unbending future written in stone. My original thought was that this book should have been titled "God Awfully ... Read More Rating: - I AM THE WORMIn my opinion, the best of Frank Herbert's Dune series. Here we see Leto 3500 years later, and the consequences of Paul and Leto's actions on the Universe, and why Leto did what he did. I especially liked Siona, and I loved this book. Rating: - Listen rather than readThis is a review of the unabridged CD audio version. I enjoyed Book I of the series the best, and in my opinion each successive one has not quite lived up to the first. That's true of this one as well. I agree that there are too many philosophical discussions, which are interesting, but drag the action down significantly. I could not finish the print version, and when the CD version came out, I began again. I enjoyed Simon Vance's reading of Children of Dune, and he does not disappoint ... Read More Rating: - Must read for Sci Fi GeeksYou have got to get this book- if you love Sci fi. You will not regret it. Rating: - A chance to see for yourself!The masters of myth-making are those who are not only removed in time and place from their respective subjects but who are also removed in spirit. In the Dune series, this book gets straight to the heart of the matter and bypasses the myths and allows you to grasp the spirit of what Frank Herbert discovered in his own life. I think that most people can accept that the great novels are reflections of their authors and of the realisations attained in their lives. The truly great novels are ... Read More |
