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Summary: What the hell happened??
Review: What happened to this series? The first three books made a good story. The last three sketched only the barest outlines of any plot at all, simply as a framework for 1500 pages of Herbert's ideas on philosophy and politics. These stories are apparently suppoesd to have some significance since people always start dying at a ridiculous pace near the end of the books, but by then I didn't even care. The characters are one dimensional at best, simply used as pawns in Herbert's debates. Some of the ideas discussed are well presented, which is why the books rate at least two stars, but putting these discourses under the category of a "Dune" story is just ridiculous. And can anyone, anyone at all, give a clue what that last chapter is supposed to mean??
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Summary: Weirdo stuff. Ultracool.
Review: I don't know how long after Leto II died, Chapterhouse deals with the Bene Gesserit and their many machinations throughout the uncountable universes now occupied by mankind. The main focus however is their struggle with a powerful new enemy, the Honored Matres; a group of women who study and train all of their lives in the arts of sexual manipulation and deadly combat skills who have taken over nearly everything and burned Arrakis into slag. Intricate and bizarre in the coolest way.
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Summary: Absolutely phenomenal! A dedinite "Must Read"
Review: If you've read the the previous books in the series, you do yourself a great disservice not finishing it off. Absolutely breathtaking in it's thoughts and conclusions.
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Summary: this is the ending, who would miss it ?
Review: u cant go on without watching this ending part, so u will have to read this one too, just keep in mind awhile that FRANK was also ending during he was striving to end this end... Read my fingers, I FEEL SORRY COS I AM OVER WITH THAT PRESANTATION OF F.H. CONTINUUM..
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Summary: Bang!
Review: Frank Herbert ends the series with a bang. If you thought the climax of Heretics left you drained, think again! Chapterhouse will throw so many delicious curves that...well, if you've read the series this far, you're an addict like me, so you don't need my advice. But for those who haven't read the series yet, life is short, so read it now!
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Summary: A very gripping story, once you start, you cant stop.
Review: A mgnificint book. Has everything you would expect from a DUNE book and much more.
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Summary: The last and worst Dune book
Review: While I liked the plot of Chapterhouse, the execution was severly lacking. %75 of this book is boring, cryptic dialogue--absolutely nothing happens until the very end. I looked forward to the dialogue in the other Dune books, but this was hardly bearable. For all it's focus on the Bene Gesserit, we only get a more superficial view of them. We get meaningless details like what Mother Superior's favorite meal is. In fact, the Bene Gesserits come off more as caddy, self-absorbed witches than anything else. As the mystical overtures of Dune fade into a life and death match, we learn that the Bene Gesserit really aren't that great. While overall this is a far superior series to anything I've ever read before, all the things I felt were flaws with the series come to a head in Chapterhouse. Herbert has this habit of skipping wonderful oppurtunities to develop a part of the universe in exchange for focusing on one aspect that wasn't really all that interesting to begin with. He also likes to skip the parts where anything important actually happens--prefering instead to describe the results of those parts. Herbert's mastery of dialogue slips in this book. The characters are one dimensional and just spout out philoshophical one-liners. I don't think this book takes the series anywhere new. Everything it deals with was already introduced in Heretics. I admit, it does goes into a lot of political philosophy--but I didn't feel like this had any weight behind it. I was the most dissapointed after I realized that the series didn't really have an end goal in mind. After God Emporer, the series meanders and looses it's direction. I was hoping that Chapterhouse would pull the series together and tie up all those strings that have been left dangling. It seem like more of an afterthought than anything else. Maybe I was expecting something when I shouldn't have been.
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Summary: Ties with Heretics of Dune for Best Book Ever
Review: I love the Dune series and Chapterhouse in a wonderfull, and amazing, end to the best series ever written.
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Summary: A creative conclusion that extends beyond its end.
Review: Chapter House showed the folly of believing that you may effect change on others without changing yourself. The Sisterhood learned a lesson long over due to those who would direct the course of human evolution and forget their part in humanities destiny. Coming face to face with their own mortality they were force to take a step in th e void.
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Summary: Oh, how the mighty are fallen!
Review: The old powers are no more...the Atriedes are hated by most and revered by few...the venerable Bene Tleilax are no more, and the powerful Bene Gesserit are beginning to crumble. This is one of my less detailed reviews - for all of this book's majesty, words fail me. All I can say is; this is what would happen. An intense feeling of devastation, desolation, sadness - and for all that, a spark of hope - fills the reader as they finish this epic conclusion to an epic series. Don't miss it.
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