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Children of Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
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Summary

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens.
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©1976 Frank Herbert (P)2008 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

"Ranging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and confrontations with the supreme intelligence of the universe, there is something here for all science fiction fans." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A major event." ( Los Angeles Times)

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A different experience

Dune is possibly my favourite book of all time and opened my eyes to many things completely unexpectedly. The Dune saga is something I have read over and over. Listening to Children of Dune was actually a completely new experience of the text for me and I think I absorbed so much more than reading it by hand that I feel I've almost read a different book with a different thrust and am happy to have done so as some side characters seemed to jump into the limelight when before I had almost glossed over them and the following novel has a new gravitas for me that it didn't before.

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Very good

Very goood yes. Much recommend.
Le tradgey but good.
A bit weird sometimes when the kids talk about the smex but you know it do be what it do be.

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Enthralling

The voice acting was gripping and the story had so many twists and turns. The politics of space were handled incredibly by Herbert.

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Classic Dune saga

I enjoyed the storyline, with the typical twists. I felt in some places a little drawn out, and the end was rushed. However, as i said I enjoyed another part of the saga.

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old favourite

a re read after 20 yrs and needed to remember much of it. loved it as much as i did then

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really enjoyed the book as it wraps up many storylines from the original book. also makes me tempted to try another from the samr series

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great

loved it. great story of pheronic power in a futurescape. plot within plot really good

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Not sure

I am really not quite sure what to make of it. Part of me enjoyed it, the other part hated it. The ending was really weird.

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excellent. slow burn

really great.
really enjoyed
slow burn but then really gets into it
very unexpected but epic journey

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brilliant audio book

I missed the other actors voicing the other characters but overall it was well read and I enjoyed this very much, definitely a good buy.

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