Hunters of Dune (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hunters of Dune (Sci Fi Essential Books)
Book Review: A shame...
Summary: 1 Stars
I always give books a chance. I really do. I read previous books by these two authors, both individually written and their "prequel" works, and despite utterly hating the "prequels" I wanted to give this book a chance, and I wish I had not.
You can see where they took the elder Herbert's story outline and then gutted it with this Omnius nonsense. The original Dune series was building up to some great metaphysical conflict about love and what it meant to be Human and what our ultimate destiny was. Not this inane and out of place conflict with giant genocidal robots. Omnius and Erasmus are about as out of place in this story as Paul Atreides' Jihad would have been in a Jetson's episode.
The skeleton of this is something great and majestic and you can easily see and feel that while reading; you can almost imagine where Frank Herbert would have taken it. As in the prequels, the authors took this where they wanted to, and made it into something inherently not "Dune," but something more akin to Saturday Morning cartoons with a script about 700 pages too long.
I don't want to tell you not to read this, because you will miss the kernel of what Frank Herbert had for the story, but I feel this is a shameful attempt to live up to him and a shameful attempt to integrate a masterpiece with a ... non-masterpiece.
Book Review: A turnaround for the better!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW! Chapterhouse was a very odd twist to the DUNE series, with the introduction of the Honored Matres, the unknown enemy, the scattering, etc. Hunters of Dune turns that back around and ties it all together with old friends and evolved enemies. A MUST READ!Book Review: A very good book.
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked the book a whole hell of a lot but despite that there were faults. Mainly was Frank Herbert originally intending anything to do with the Butlerian Jihad? I am willing to say that he was considering he was planning on writing a book(s) with his son on the Butlerian Jihad and the notes supposedly did reveal a "great surprise". I do not know for sure but I will give Brian and Kevin the benefit of the doubt.Book Review: All said and done, I'm glad I read it
Summary: 4 Stars
I read the prequel trilogy as the books came out. Dune: House Atreides was a worthwhile effort, but things got progressively worse with House Harkonnen and House Corrino. To get to the meat of the story, you have to suffer trite cliches and a penchant for extreme violence. Honestly, it was almost as pathetic as Left Behind.
So, I understandibly approached Hunters of Dune with some trepidation. Thankfully, the cliches and gore are kept (mostly) to a bareable level. The one scene where I really thought they went over the top was the bloody fight between the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres acolytes.
Herbert Jr. and Anderson are not the most gifted writers alive, but I don't know why so many described Hunters of Dune as having been written for twelve year olds. Yes, a lot of the philisophical subtext of Frank Herbert is gone. Still, if you are looking for a page-turner, it does the job. The end of Chaperhouse: Dune was eerily perfect, but the rest of the story begged to be told. I am looking forward to Sandworms of Dune.
Book Review: Always Dune
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't let the nay sayers get you down. This is another great book about the adventures of the Dune characters. I read the original Dune in 1970 and have first editions of all books. I am so grateful the Kevin has continued this series, and will be sad to see it come to an end. Have fun; let your imagination roar across the universe. I just orderd a print of the dust cover on this book, what a great depiction of that scene. You can almost smell the spice coming from Edrics chamber. Believe in folding space not folding your mind to this book