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The Dune Oddessy

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smophie:
Seeing as I can tell that Jeph has a fondness for the old Frank Herbert classics, I was wondering what everyone else thought of them. Specially the "prequels" to the main Dune series and the previous histories written by Frank's son Brian and Kevin J. Henderson.

I think for having being written without any input from the old master, they've followed the plot threads pretty well, maintaining the characters and their motivations well. I enjoy reading them, but realise that they are not as good. But I still enjoy them.

What does everyone else think?

Switchblade:
I like the first book. Childredn and messiah were also good.

Everything since those three has basically smacked of flogging the money horse despite having killed it, beat it for a while, raised it as a zombie, flogged the zombie until it fell over again, and then carried on for good measure for a while longer so as to extract the maximum amount of money.

I have no clue as to their quality, but I just haven't bothered to read them purely because of the sheer volume, the lack of time, and the being told by people whose opinions I trust that they basically suck.

McTaggart:
This is probably heresy, but I wasn't particularly impressed. Sure, good story, good universe and all but fuck me, that book was so much longer than it needed to be. Or it might have been that I was 13 or 14 when I read it. Either way, it left a 'hmeh' impression on me.

dessa:
only the original dune, the rest got on my nerves as they got towards to looking like a serial series.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
I really love the first book, but I couldn't get into Children of Dune and I haven't read the rest. Maybe I should try again, since it's an awesome setting, even if the movie is shite.

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