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Heretics of Dune

Dune Chronicles, Book 5

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Heretics of Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Scott Brick
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Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series.

On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.

©1984 Frank Herbert (P)2008 Macmillan Audio Classics Epic Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera
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This is a great story, well read. A great story with some very interesting ideas on human potential. Reading / listening again after roughly 20 years I do find the quotes at the beginning of each chapter and the pontificating an unfortunate distraction, and one you can’t skip past, unlike a written book. But overall a really enjoyable story.

Ignore the pseudo philosophy

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This chapter of the Dune Saga is much more confusing than previous chapters IMHO. less action and more plot and counter plot. still a great read/listen as it takes the saga on a new path.

another great chapter but not as good as first one

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I would like highly recommend the whole 6 books of dune as they are a masterpiece in English literacy

r I p Mr Herbert

dune book 5 is amazing

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I did enjoy this book. It wasn’t as hard to get through as ‘children’ or ‘God emperor’. Messiah was the most difficult to get through in terms of rambling and intense introspective political / social satirical commentary. This was much more story. More characters. More location and backdrop. Some action. And a bit of sex - a nice surprise for Dune. We’re moving away from the political / resource monopolising / religious / devious and social trickery and power brokering that controls people en mass and are looking at another base instinct that is used to control men. A mind blowing sexual encounter - and the promise/threat of more once a fellow is hooked.

I would recommend this after the first 4 and it’s not so much of a slog at this point just to finish the series (as I thought it would be) because this was entertaining and gripping. I wanted to come back to it. I consider myself fully immersed into the ‘Duneiverse’ now and I got where the story was going. The deep background needs to be understood - the who’s and the whats of the various ‘tribes’ encountered in the series so far.

In terms of story this book moves away from the direct Atreides dynasty and into the wider universe they have ‘spawned’. It’s got a wider scope, and uses that freedom to explore a bit.

The only negative is that it is a bridging piece. There isn’t any conclusion. No real sense of an ending or concluding arc or even a culmination of events. It’s just a link between God Emperor and Chapter house. It was interesting don’t get me wrong... and expertly done... but I felt like the sheer size of the universe and possibilities is overwhelming Frank Herbert at points and he’s struggling to get it nailed down into stories that can be told in a book. This could have been twice as long and still not getting to the point. Probably why he never finished the series.

One more to go - and I hope it gets somewhere. Although I know it probably won’t I have to keep going now.

Better than God Emperor, but...

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such a brilliant story and a brilliant performance. I struggled to put it down!

Brilliant

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