Dune

I just finished Chapterhouse: Dune.

I think Dune is the greatest series I've ever read. And, after that amazing cliffhanger, and yet still fairly shallow ending (Daniel and Marty? awesome, but wtf?), and knowing I have nothing else to look forward to but his son's shitty attempts at cashing in, I just feel... empty.

Ya know?

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I don't know, I've read the original Dune and the Messiah, and thought that both were pretty bad. The setting is awesome, the worms and sand are cool, but plot and prose really seemed b-class to me. Even Tolkien wrote better than that, and he wasn't even a writer, I kept thinking throughout.

Yay, Dune! I didn't really like the first few as much as the end, though. God Emperor is overrated.

Hmm, too bad the cliffhanger wasn't intentional. When's Herbert's son gonna release Frank's so called notes?

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He and Kevin J. Anderson wrote two books that were supposedly based on his notes for the 7th book... but no. It's pretty clear they deviated from Frank's original ideas in an attempt to link back to the prequels that Brian and Kevin wrote previously.

And I think the prose is pretty damn good. It's certainly not excellent, but given how shoddy most science fiction prose is (ie. retired military vets jizzing all over fascism and big guns), Herbert was most definently solid.

God-Emperor is the best, followed closely by Chapterhouse.

The ending isn't a disappointment when you realize the overarching theme of the series is the problem of the Oracle. Are you bound by the future, or do you create it? And that final section is to show that yes, you can break out of what looks inevitable, you can make a free choice.

but yeah I love me some Dune. Not the KJA stuff though. That's shit all the way through.