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Summary: Cerebral and complex, but it's not the original
Review: Dune has been my favorite book since i first read it at 8. This sequel is complex and entertaining, and the last chapter is a real shocker, but it is not as entertaining as the others.
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Summary: this is what happens to heroes after they win
Review: Read this book if you are fed up with happy ever after endings and shining heroes who never doubt themselves. Dune messiah paints it like it is.
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Summary: It is the best book series, that I have ever read!!
Review: I recommend this book to everybody.
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Summary: Not as good as the others
Review: I read the whole Dune series I thought this was the weakest. It was still a good novel, but nothing compared to Dune, God Emperor, or Chapterhouse. If you want to get the full impact of the series, read it. But if you are just looking for a good book skip this one
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Summary: This book is everything DUNE was but better!
Review: Its about the continuation af Paul-Mau'd dib. He has found out that he still can be destroyed, and a ghola od Duncan Idaho has been reborn
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Summary: A brilliant and disturbing sequel to Dune
Review: This book is the shortest of all the six in the series. And yet, despite being less wordy, less worldly, less epic, it packs such a punch that I was left mentally reeling after the last chapter.Paul's almighty victory on Dune hasn't spawned the cosy future that we foresaw for him. His Fremen armies engage in intergalactic jihad; his own Fremen advisors are getting corrupt in all the wealth; all around are conspirators plotting his usurpment; and everywhere he looks with his prescient eye he sees dark nightmares of futures, one of which he must choose to realise. This book sees the introduction of a new brand of human organisation - the Bene Tleilax, a breed that meddle in genetics and boast their own tricks such as Face Dancers who can shift appearance and behaviour to trick the unwary. The story is compelling. You find yourself more and more drawn into the horror that unfolds. Again, Herbert has managed to make the book unpredictable at all times, leaving you gasping at one nasty occurence after another. If you think you might go the whole way and read all six books in the series, then do read this book after Dune. If you don't think you'll manage all six books, it's perhaps best you don't venture beyond Dune, for this book leaves the universe in a sad state compared to the heroic victory at the end of the first tale.
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Summary: A mere shadow of the magnificence that was Dune.
Review: Unfortuantly, Dune Messiah does not live up to Dune. Dune I gave five stars, however, this book does not go in depth about anything. It merely skimms the top of everything and doesn't explain or explore as well as it could have, and should have. Dune Messiah attempts to build on Dune, the ultimate in sci-fi, and fails miserably. Instead of bettering the Dune story, it weakens it with bad plot twists that are nothing like that of Dune. I had trouble reading the end of this book because it starts out slow, and doesn't improve. It laggs through the whole story whereas Dune the origional glued you to the book. Finally, Messiah mocks the origional Dune by weakenning the structure with which Dune was created and the glory was origionally born. So if you're looking to find the magic that Dune brought, don't read Massiha, it just doesn't live up to the name Dune.
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Summary: Different, but worth shelling out the cash.
Review: The atmosphere is very different in this book than in Dune. This is shorter, a little less heavy, and has a completely different plot. This book is hard to compare to Dune, as it is so completely different.
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Summary: Great book, but not up to Dune.
Review: This book was a little bit of a disappointment. I'll put aside the slight inconsistencies of the series regarding prescience for the time being and talk about the plot. It is mostly political intrigue. The entire ecological thread is lost from the book and the Dune feeling is therefore gone. However, the rest of it is pretty good, and the religious themes are much more prominent in the tortured heart of Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, who must live with the destruction being done in his name and the prescient path on which he has trapped humanity. All in all, it is slightly more philosophical, the characters are revealed more clearly and interestingly, and the focus shifts from the planet to the people.
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Summary: Not the best of the series, but still great
Review: Okay, the series starts off with a bang in Dune. Messiah follows the Dune story through, If you can follow Pauls line of thought you can find a deep rooting commentary on most of the issues regarding our own planet, politic's, religion, philosophy, it's all there. This second book is the least active of the initial three that I call the trilogy, It summarises Dune and prepares for the third book, children of Dune. Some may love, some may find boring (It does drag a little). I was in the loved it category!. Tim Scott
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