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Children of Dune
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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Dune
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- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,064
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,411
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,388
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story... but inconsistent voices?
- By KT_TO on 2018-01-11
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The Muad'Dib's jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies - those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?
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- Written by: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,064
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,411
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,388
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story... but inconsistent voices?
- By KT_TO on 2018-01-11
Written by: Frank Herbert
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Paul of Dune
- Book One of the Heroes of Dune
- Written by: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The Muad'Dib's jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies - those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bridges the gap rather well
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-08-20
Written by: Brian Herbert, and others
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Hunters of Dune
- Written by: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. Hunters of Dune is the exotic odyssey of the crew as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My first venture into the extended universe.
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Written by: Brian Herbert, and others
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Dune: House Atreides: House Trilogy, Book 1
- Written by: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 26 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 80
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Written by: Brian Herbert, and others
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- Written by: Kevin J Anderson, Brian Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 23 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters. It began in the Time of Tyrants, when ambitious men and women used high-powered computers to seize control of the heart of the Old Empire including Earth itself. The tyrants translated their brains into mobile mechanical bodies and created a new race, the immortal man-machine hybrids called cymeks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written by: Kevin J Anderson, and others
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- Written by: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
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- Chris Elder
- 2021-08-04
A Slog of Navel-Gazing
75% of this book is drawn-out conversations or thoughts about how weird it is to have knowledge of the past.
In one particular chapter, Leto spews nonsense at his grandmother for several minutes. He then fiercely asserts (correctly) that he has said nothing in particular, and the grandmother admits defeat.
Some actual events take place later in the book, but they are too few and too late to save the sunk plot.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-12-08
Better than book 1
Incredible. love it all. everything about the book was fantastic so so so good
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Big Moist
- 2023-10-14
Better than the second, worse than the first.
I really enjoyed this one right from go, loved the interactions of the characters early in the story as it sets up the sudden ending.
But that's the problem, the sudden end. Frank seemed to enjoy hitting you with a single sentence to explain a very important event like it was a footnote.
To be vague but still spoil, the "And then they were in jail" caught me off guard, genuinely thought I accidentally skipped a chapter but no, Frank just sweeps it under the rug with a single sentence.
Now about 90% of this book I enjoyed but the ending goes off the rails for me.
Spoilers are incoming.
So like, a character equips a Wurm condom and gains superpowers that completely nullify all threats, they become impervious and effectively immortal and like, why?
I know it's setting up for book 4 to take place 3000 years in the future but for me, this is not the way. And I think I'll be stopping here with the dune series, all the characters I care about should be dead in book 4 so I don't really care to continue.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-06-11
surprised me
While I know that the quality of each Dune book declines as you go through the series, I was genuinely surprised to find that I actually really enjoyed this book! Is it as good as the first one? No. Were there some bland sections of the story? Of course. But overall I really enjoyed the story of the twins and the familiar faces that kept them company along the way!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- The Turmans
- 2023-03-12
Thick and engaging
Listening to the Dune series again after reading them years ago has been neat. The writing is as thick and think-y as I remember them but also as engaging.
Children of Dune continues to develop the themes and characters introduced in the previous book, and lets the new characters take them further. I wish the women were depicted as similarly strong in character and capacity as the men—a problem of Herbert’s time.
The actor on this is not my favourite—his accents become a little repetitive. All the fremen sound alike. But it came alive in the imagining nevertheless. I’m looking forward to listening to the next one.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Ingrid Cain
- 2023-02-27
Brilliant
I could read (or listen) to this series over and over and each time pick up something new from it.
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- Cheri Ansley
- 2023-01-28
Loved it
Great story with incredible prose and very skillful narration
Can’t wIt for the next book
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Michael
- 2022-12-18
Great Book, Annoying Reader
Love the story in itself but felt like the reader butchered a decent few aspects of it, one of the big ones for me being his accents on Stilgar being akin to an Italian Dracula. Took me right out of the story and ruined stilgars parts for me.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-11-18
Great Story! Great Characters!
A great third entry for the series! It feels like a nice wrap up for the first trilogy, giving a great conclusion for most characters while also serving the set up for God Emperor.
As always there are lots of plots and politics that a gripping and unpredictable.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Moniqueka
- 2022-09-02
Best out of the three so far
The perspectives and conflicts were the most interesting parts of the story. Really rounds up the Atraites story nicely.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Ziya
- 2008-04-22
great story, more production problems
So the producers seem to have completely given up on the entire dramatization thing that they were doing in the first book of this series, Dune (see my review there). Simon Vance does a good job of narrating this story, but towards the end of the book it becomes very clear that he wasn't available to do some re-dos and missed text. So they end up getting some random guy to finish the project. Its actually the case that sometimes one word in a sentence is dubbed in by this other narrator. Bothersome.
The story in and of itself is good, not as good as Dune, but certainly worth listening to or reading. My only critique is that Herbert sometimes goes on far too long about relatively minor issues or expanding upon points that were made well enough earlier in the text.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Joel D Offenberg
- 2009-11-25
Good but operatic in flavor
As I run through Frank Herbert's original Dune stories, I think the best adjective for the flavor and pace is "operatic"...a good story with great color and flavor, but paced slowly. Much of the book is spent with people talking about what will before much of anything does happen. That doesn't mean it's boring...understanding the motives and machinations of the principals really are the story, but it's an unusual flavor for sci-fi.
For those who are not familiar with the previous works, this won't make sense. You need to do them in order.
This story centers around Leto II and Ghanima Atriedes (the children of Paul Muad'Dib and imperial heirs presumptive, now aged 9), Alia (their aunt and imperial regent) and the Lady Jessica (mother of Alia and Paul). Alia is struggling against the inner voices from her ancestral memory, while Leto and Ghanima try to avoid the same fate. The mysterious, blind Preacher only adds to the mystery.
Part of the vast Duniverse tapestry, Children of Dune doesn't live up to the high standard of the original Dune (few books by any author do), but improves on Dune Messiah.
Excellently narrated by Simon Vance with an assist from Scott Brick.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Upset and Walking
- 2008-02-17
Continued Good Work
Scott Brick and Simon Vance do a remarkable job bringing the characters and places to life in the Dune series. It has been a while since I have read "Children" and I am impressed with the layers of the Dune world that Herbert describes. I hope Audible continues to translate the original series into the audible format. My second favorite book after "Dune" is the "God Emperor," so I hope the trend continues. "Children" is an enjoyable listen for fans of Herbert.
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- Jack Williamson
- 2016-09-15
Back to the good stuff
So, I LOVED Dune, and was really disappointed by Dune Messiah - but Children of Dune gets back to the grand, empire defining space opera I was craving.
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- NH
- 2018-09-25
A great job continuing the story of Dune
This is my second favorite of the Dune series. Frank Herbert does an excellent job tying the events in this book to the previous two. He also treats all characters, except a few, with sympathy. The narration of this one is much better than the previous two.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2016-02-16
Brilliant story, brilliant narration
If you're a big fan of Dune, don't hesitate to get the audiobooks. It really adds a whole new level of understanding to the storyline and paints a picture that reading a paper copy alone won't do. I've read the physical copies of the entire series and now listened to the first three. It's truly the best way to solidify the incredible experience that is Frank Herbert's masterpiece.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Edgar
- 2014-03-27
I was suprised.
I was surprised to find this book to fit so well with the previous two. Even though you are following a new main character, I found the transition was natural and the story flowed very well.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- C. Alexis
- 2009-02-25
Fabulous readers, compelling story.
As is the case with all of the Dune texts I’ve read, this one stuns in its capacity to tell a compelling story while using challenging language that asks the reader to think. There’s something to be said for simple and imaginative books such as Harry Potter and for series like the Enders Game series, which was compelling and inventive and yet scattered, because of Orson Scott Card’s self-professed carelessness in sketching out his fictive worlds. Yet there is something more profound about Herbert’s works, which hint that the author was a bit of a madman and a genius. His worlds are brilliantly demarcated, consistent, and inventive. In this book—which is fabulously narrated—we see the consequences of some of the actions taken by our favorite characters from Dune. As with all of the books in the series, it is interesting to read Herbert’s philosophical science fiction, which often challenges us to think through murky moral territory and imagine what actions we’d take in a similar universe. It is also fascinating to read about a fictive world with concerns that are so different from our own, while still resonating with our political situation (such as how water and spice is used and consumed, and the parallels in our world of water rights and the sale of drugs and weapons).
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Francis
- 2008-04-01
A dissapointing follow up of Dune
If you like the original Dune, don't listen to this, it will disspoint you.
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- William
- 2012-09-10
Storyline drags
What did you like best about Children of Dune? What did you like least?
The story is very pedantic, dragging out and repeating story lines. Not near as good as the original Dune.
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