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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
How Man was convinced that Man must accept nature., 30 Oct 1998
By A Customer
This book gives a somewhat scary picture of a perhaps not so distant future, where most animals are extinct, and those who are not, are extremely hostile and deadly. To survive the attacks of the ever-mutating insects, Man has built fortified cities, slowly loosing the chemical warfare. Although the book is more or less a traditional Man-against-Monster story, it is unnerving to se how close to reality the prediction gets. Already we have near-immune malaria-mosquitos, killer-bees and medicine-infected domestic animals; Herbert takes it a step further. A good novel !
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing out of the Ordinary, 27 Jul 2003
Before I read The Green Brain I had known Frank Herbert only as the author of Dune, and picking up the book I hoped that it would remind me of the grandeur of that masterpiece. But alas! The book turned out to be a not particularly exciting adventure with a moral which could be predicted already after reading the blurb: Man shouldn’t thoughtlessly interfere with the life of Nature (everyone , I think, will agree with this, but on the other hand, there’s nothing strikingly new about this moral). The characters of the book are commonplace, their dialogues are mostly trite. Even the non-human intelligence is portrayed in the same dull way as other characters. There are, nevertheless, some rather well-written scenes in the book, and the outcome shows some of the author’s inventiveness, but on the whole, in order to enjoy the book at least as a means of killing time and not to be disappointed, the reader should from the very beginning forget that the same author also wrote that SF masterpiece, Dune, and not expect the book to be above the average level.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing out of the Ordinary, 27 Jul 2003
Before I read The Green Brain I had known Frank Herbert only as the author of Dune, and picking up the book I hoped that it would remind me of the grandeur of that masterpiece. But alas! The book turned out to be a not particularly exciting adventure with a moral which could be predicted already after reading the blurb: Man shouldn't thoughtlessly interfere with the life of Nature (everyone , I think, will agree with this, but on the other hand, there's nothing strikingly new about this moral). The characters of the book are commonplace, their dialogues are mostly trite. Even the non-human intelligence is portrayed in the same dull way as other characters. There are, nevertheless, some rather well-written scenes in the book, and the outcome shows some of the author's inventiveness, but on the whole, in order to enjoy the book at least as a means of killing time and not to be disappointed, the reader should from the very beginning forget that the same author also wrote that SF masterpiece, Dune, and not expect the book to be above the average level.
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