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To: Seruzawa
Stop at “Dune Messiah”. Whatever you do don’t read the never ending “Lord God Help Us Another Sequel To Dune”.

I don't know. The sequels decreased incrementally in quality, but by reading through to the end of God Emperor, at least I got the feeling of a story brought to completion.

I agree that the fifth and sixth books in the series were unnecessary. I found them quite tedious. I don't know whether I want to read the series co-written by Herbert's son.

199 posted on 04/25/2015 7:21:39 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa

Lord God Emperor could have benefited greatly by some editing. Like getting rid of around 100 pages by reducing the interminable speeches.

A lot of authors get like this when they get older. Heinlein’s and Asimov’s later stories were also long drudges of exposition and virtually unreadable. Unless of course one is a fanatic fan.


201 posted on 04/26/2015 9:58:10 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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