Helpful Score: 3
This is the sequel to Dune. It is a great continuation of a great story. The characters continue to grow and develop while the story finds new ways to remain intriguing.
Helpful Score: 1
This book has a considerably different tone than the first book; much more melancholy, and it was even deeper and more complex, which may or may not be a good thing. It is not light reading. Much like the first book it was slow to get into at first, but was very engrossing by the middle and I couldn't put it down by the end. If you enjoyed the first book I highly recommend continuing the Dune Chronicles. Herbert has a magnificent voice and has created a stunning, deeply crafted world to rival that of Middle Earth.
Book 2 of the Dune series - a wonderful story that has a strong correlation to today's geopolitical situation
Original Dune is better but this is a great continuation of the series.
I love the Dune Chronicles. They seem to encompasse so much - from political theory to philosophy to family allegiance. Each book is immensely complex.
Not the best follow-up, but worth reading just to get to the rest of the series.
A mediore follow up....none of the books that followed were as good as the first.
Great continuation of the Dune chronicles.
My husband is rereading this series and loves it. He was so happy I was able to find a copy of Dune Messiah here at PaperBackSwap for him!
The Dune books should have ended with this one. The rest are silly IMO. Good read and still interesting. Semi-advanced reading.
From the back cover: "With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's magnigicent Dune books stand amoung the major achievement of the human imagination.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muab'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing..."
Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muab'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing..."
