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Summary: The Best Book of the Series...Blows away the original
Review: When I first read this book, I was shocked, emotionally drained, and utterly breathless. In this masterpiece, Herbert finishes his first trilogy of the planet Dune. Muad'Dib's ecological salvation plan for Dune is in full effect, and the planet is turning green with life. St. Alia-of-the-Kinfe, however, is planning to take over with the help of the Baron Hark. in her head. This sums everythin up, and creates the character that will carry this trilogy over to the next one, but I won't spoil it for you. just be sure you read it, and prepare to be blown away in the climactic conclusion to Herbert's 1st trilogy of Arrakis!
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Summary: Not worth reading.
Review: I thought that this book did not live up to the others in the series. It's quite boring and hard to get through, unlike it's predesesors. Read it only if you plan to read the whole series.
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Summary: A book that makes you think about memory end choices
Review: What I thought to be interesting in this book is the fact that the two tweens remember everything of their ancestors and must fight to live their own lives. It is more than an action story, it is a book about psichology and the real nature of man which goes beyond the machine.
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Summary: Not as good as the rest
Review: This book is not as good as the original, but the series really picks up again in the next one.
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Summary: Good final for Preacher ,strong start for Atreides Emperor
Review: I think that it's a full passing and ending book. I've not get 5. and 6. books yet but I know that after 3. book the story go into quite different way.I'm about finish 4. book nowadays and as if I read a another first book.The reason's 3. book. The book shuts a chapter that existence first three book .The book prepares and shows us for new amazing thing. Herbert is showing boundless of his dream.
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Summary: Get hooked!
Review: Dune was first, the pioneer. The sequels never seem quite as imaginative. Nevertheless, Frank Herbert continually improved his writing skills as he grew older, and Children of Dune is the work of a much more powerful artist. In my opinion, the third book is even better than the first. (The fourth book, God Emperor of Dune, is better still, but if you've read Children, you're hooked, so you don't need me telling you this.)
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Summary: My least favourite of the Dune series... still very good
Review: This book is (as the summary says) my least favourite. Why? Well, it just seemed to me all the way through that very little was happening. Certainly the ending was very interesting, but it still seemed that this book was a way to well and truly finish what Dune started, while leading up to the next book (God Emperor - which is set several millenia after this book).Still, it has its moments (in the last quarter, at least) and I certainly didn't find the book boring while getting towards the end. Even large sections of relative inactivity seem readable in Herbert's writing style, and it never seemed like hard work. Read this book, then move on to the last half of Herbert's trilogy. By The Way... this probably deserves more than 3-stars relative to most books, but within the Dune series it just doesn't keep up.
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Summary: The only one equal to the original.
Review: Children of Dune is by far the best of the series (along with the first, of course.) It picks up all the themes that Herbet explores and brings them to the collapse of the known galaxy, revealing in a dazzling explosion the comlexity of all that has been constructed in the series. The political element, the desert ecology, the chases and adventure between emotional characters and philosophical depth, all comes back. I think that Children of Dune is better written than the original, which makes it good to read. It shows the evolution and final collapse of the path that Muad'Dib left behind and points out the dangers of limits--in governement, in thought, in life everywhere--when you are trying to build a truly efficient society, and at the same time illuminates the harm and good that religion has done.
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Summary: The ending saves this book
Review: The first three-quarters of this book gets really bogged down in itself. Mr. Herbert tries to explain too much in just a short amount of pages. But the ending just blew me away. Mr. Herbert surprises you with the re-emergence of Paul Muad'Dib, and I thought the ending was just phenomenal. I give it four stars.
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Summary: Simply Great Literature
Review: After reading Dune Messiah, I believe that any Dune fan has to feel a bit disappointed. My faith in Herbert was lowered when I saw he couldn't live up to what he had created. That all changed when I read Children of Dune. The ecological depth of the first book came back as the planet sat in the hands of humanity. With expansions on both the role of the Atreides line and how Duncan Idaho figures into the grand scheme of things, it was clear that Children of Dune walked right in step with the original. Paul's role, although seemingly degraded, possesed a very dangerous yet passive stature. The Ghanima and Leto II added an odd level of youth and maturity that was reminiscent of Paul's chindhood. While the Guild and CHOAM were where they should have been in the struggle, (away from the conflict) the Sisterhood showed how they could be a driving force. All in all, I would have to say that Children of Dune perfected how a sequel such as itself had to stand on its own yet be part of a cycle.
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