The Road to Dune by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Road to Dune
Book Review: Road to Dune : Then and Now
Summary: 4 Stars
When reading the reviews I found a lot of criticism about the style of writing. When you compare Frank Herbert's style against his sons and Kevin Anderson all I can stress is the different cultural eras the authors are writing in.
Frank Herbert writes for a world the reads and only has 3 to 4 channels of television available. No amazing special effects in movies, you had to rely on dialogue. Herbert also writes for an educated world. The pinnacle of excellent free education ended in the 1980's. The world Herbert writes for has read all the masters of the English, French, German, Greek, Roman languages...get the picture. I remember reading Homer in High School and Tolkien's Rings Trilogy was something most of us explored sometime in 9th & 10th grade.
Today we have amazing special effects, 500 plus channels of satellite TV, and a world so caught up in itself that it only has time for 30 second sound bites.
If Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson write like screenplays could it be to capture and keep the interest of today's reader. How many of us miss the time when Children played outside, settling down to read a book was not an oddity, but a commonality, and we made decisions after we had read, listened, and explored every side of an issue.
I'd like to thank Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson for taking on the epic that is the Dune Universe. I enjoy their novels and this book gives you an insight on why and how they continue the universe.
On a side note Chilton published automotive repair books and most people worked on their cars, they changed oil, spark plugs, carburetors...etc themselves. We Dune fans owe them a debt of gratitude that they had the foresight to publish Dune.
I first read Dune in the 70's, we waited in line for gas and only on the right day according to our license plate numbers, we celebrated a bicentennial, and had a scandal in the White House, we lived a life outside of the box, and we wanted to change the world...well we changed the world...is it better or worse?...maybe the answer is in Dune itself.
Every decade I read Dune and I discover new depths I had unknowingly missed the 1 through 4 time around. This is a keeper and even though my books are tattered and creased they are loved and a new shiny novel adds itself to the collection ever so often.
Read Dune and fall into the Dune Universe.
Book Review: Super Reader
Summary: 4 Stars
The introduction and excerpts from Dune and Dune Messiah were
fascinating, as was the process of the first book actually being
published, but only serially to start with! Again, the younger
generation's works I can take or leave. However, they do explain how
they were working from a ton of material that Frank left, and how they
went through it, scanned it so they could search it, etc. If you don't
like any of the other 'new' sequels, this one is certainly worth
checking out.
It also includes a 'proto' Dune novel, much shorter, that Herbert shelved and turned into his masterpiece.
Certainly worth a look.
Book Review: Surprise and Thanks
Summary: 4 Stars
As one who has read Dune (and its sequels) over and over for 35+years, and rejected the recent prequels becasue of their lack of literary quality and ideas other than formulistic writing, this book is different, and harks back to the real original (or prequel if you prefer). I'm glad the authors used real notes, stories and scenarios in an intelligent and a logical manner. This work offsets the prequels. The original Duneworld presented here had all the outlines of the later book and from what is missing and what is there, one can trace the mental progression and increase in bilogical and related knowledge advances by Mister Herbert as he progressed from Duneworld to Dune. Even for the points that did not show in Duneworld,I felt there were clear hints of the Fremen, the real brutal viciousness of Harkonnens before it was smoothed out to thinking brutishness and a host of other real and almost real subplots. The stories also included later in the book were all Dune, in feel, tone, style, manner and approach. Whether they were Mr. Hebert's or the authors (or some combination thereof as I did not pay attention to whom wrote which), all were clear Dune in feel and approach. Thank you for returning to Dune's roots and given us something else than the made up and generally poor recent prequels. -- A much better job.Book Review: The seies heads towards a conclusion...
Summary: 4 Stars
Although Brian and Kevin don't write as well as Frank, they have expanded the Dune universe. This book picks up from where the "classic" series left off, and also tie in threads from the "pre Paul" stories and sets up a finale in the next book.