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Sandworms of Dune (Paperback)

by Brian Herbert (Author), Kevin J Anderson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (20 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340837527
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340837528
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,333 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dean Koontz
'Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision.'

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'[Herbert and Anderson] do a great job in investing the plot with heft and complexity and the narrative with pace and momentum, and conveying the sheer ferocity of the betrayals and duplicities . . . a rare, rattling page-turner that no Dune adherent will pass up.'

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'Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision.' (Dean Koontz )

'Those who long to return to the world of desert, spice and sandworms will be amply satisfied' (The Times )

'A triumphant climax to the history of the Dune universe.'

(Bookseller on THE BATTLE OF CORRIN )

'For those of us who grew up with the world of spice and sand - how gratifying to revisit characters who felt like old friends, now brought to a satisfying conclusion.'


 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Please, Please No More, 20 Oct 2007
By Brian Bernard (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sandworms of Dune (Paperback)
This book is dire. Lets face the facts - Everybody is stupid, the so called super humans could not find their way home in the dark(yes they are that bad) there is no plot to speak of and really it seems that this series is in a different universe from Frank Herberts novels.

The book plods along at an snails pace and it makes no sense as Brian and Kevin just seem to have made up and changed the rules as book progressed and they just seem to have killed anybody off just to tie up any loose ends. I have not looked at the original books for over a decade but I know from memory that every rule in the universe was broken during this book.

Still if you are like me you will read this book just to see what happens and when you do you want to expunge all memory of it. This book was for money and really it is very sloppy that seems to me that they did not really care about what really happened and do not value your custom either.

If you are strong willed avoid this absolutely awful rubbish and stick with whatever version you thought of yourself as it WILL be better than this drivel.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, but at least it's over now, 3 Sep 2007
By S. J. Vessey (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sandworms of Dune (Paperback)
The original Dune books were full of intrigue and scheming as the various factions attempted to manipulate and deceive each other, with layers of nuance and meaning depending on particular choices of words or carefully controlled body language. You certainly always felt that the protagonists were a lot smarter than you, and a lot more switched on. Unfortunately, some time in the last few years, a terrible plague swept through the Dune universe, reducing everyone's ability to understand things that aren't made blindingly obvious to that of your average 21st century 14 year old.

The result is not a total disaster, but on the other hand, if my idea of top quality entertainment was shouting out "it's behind you" I'd go to the local panto.

Let's face it, anyone who's come this far in the series is going to buy this to find out what happens, and in that respect the book finally ties up all the big loose ends that were left hanging at the end of Chapterhouse. Whether or not you'll be left thinking that the resolution is a satisfactory (or even believeable) one is another matter. Too many characters and factions suddenly change the ingrained behaviour of a lifetime within the last few chapters, while others simply conform to irrational stereotypes, and a number of the key people from the last novel turn out to be essentially pointless fluff. To be honest, by the end I was hoping that Omnius would finally win just to have done with it.

Having said all that, I'm glad they wrote it, because it does finally bring some closure to the storyline after all these years. Kudos to the authors for even attempting it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Gave it 1 star, which is 1 more than it deserves, 28 Sep 2007
By wedge (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sandworms of Dune (Paperback)
Awful. Absolutely *awful*. I thought Hunters of Dune was bad, but this is just dire. Gaping plot holes, incredibly simple and lazy resolutions to virtually all the major story arcs, a frankly silly "final confrontation" and a "they all lived happily ever after" epilogue to top it all off. I refuse to believe that this rubbish bears any more than the slightest resemblance to Frank Herbert's original sketches.

Brian and Kevin also found time to squeeze in references to important events that appear nowhere in Frank Herbert's books. Apparently these events will take place in yet another collection of new books set between Dune and Dune Messiah. I guess the only thing left for them to do after that will be to start selling Dune action figures and other merchandise. Brian Herbert should be ashamed of himself. He should have published his father's notes on Dune 7 and left it at that. As for Kevin J Anderson, well, he seems to be very good at cranking out mediocre sci-fi, but I just wish he'd never been allowed to taint one of the all time classics of the genre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a good ending
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1.0 out of 5 stars Just awful
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5.0 out of 5 stars Only rated 5 stars as the rest of you were unfairly critical. Should be a 3+1/2 star, if the original was a 5.
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Dreadful! The other 'Dune' books written by these two were reasonably entertaining, however, this one is a huge disappointment! Don't bother!
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