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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: What a disappointment! I love Frank Herbert's work, but this was truly horrid. Rambling on and on, never quite making sense, assuming you want to listen to a bunch of technical details. Great story line, but turn it into a 15 page short story and it'd be *much* better. As is, it's a waste of time. Don't even bother starting it.
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Summary: Destination: Avoid
Review: What a disappointment.This is a boring book about annoying people sent on an inscrutible mission to achieve an incomprehensible goal. It is a very difficult read, the plot and motivations of the characters are never adequately explained, and it is full of scientific and mathematical detail that may well be fascinating to scientists and mathematicians but serves only to muddle and confuse the story even further for the rest of us. There is no payoff at the end, which is as unexplained as the rest of the book. Reading this book is a complete waste of time. There is enough fascinating and wonderful science fiction out there about the nature of consciousness and computer intelligences in deep space (Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep," for example) that skipping "Destination: Void" can hardly be considered a loss.
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