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Children of Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
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Summary

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens.
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Critic reviews

"Ranging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and confrontations with the supreme intelligence of the universe, there is something here for all science fiction fans." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A major event." ( Los Angeles Times)

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The best book of a truly classic sci-fi series

I have read the series many times but have not had the pleasure of listening to it. I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook.

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Great narration.

Again I'm very happy with all the narration. This series is one of my personal favourites so the fact that the narration is great really helps.

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Powerful end to an epic trilogy.

Great characters and story set across an epic scope, but it will need your full attention. it's easy to miss key parts of the plot. Be warned.

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Amazing, they just get better and better

After having ignored the popularity of this series for many years, having seen the original movie when it came out years ago and the remake of it more recently by I was intrigued enough by the latter to pick up the first book of the series of which the film only gives us half the story within. Finishing it I was hooked and with this book, the 3rd of the series, I find that starting from great each book thus far improves on the previous and leads me to regret not having read them all much sooner. Fantastic reads all.

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balance of action and pacing

excellent conclusion to the first arch in the dune universe. everything seemed right in it's direction and pacing to the way loose ends had been tied off. amongst the best sci-fi ever written

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Awful women voices

I love the book, but please tell me why the lecturer pretends to make women voices? If you are a man and you make your voice squeaky you still have a male’s voice, squeaky, but male - you don’t sound like a woman! This is terrible! 😭🥴

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A different experience

Dune is possibly my favourite book of all time and opened my eyes to many things completely unexpectedly. The Dune saga is something I have read over and over. Listening to Children of Dune was actually a completely new experience of the text for me and I think I absorbed so much more than reading it by hand that I feel I've almost read a different book with a different thrust and am happy to have done so as some side characters seemed to jump into the limelight when before I had almost glossed over them and the following novel has a new gravitas for me that it didn't before.

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Very good

Very goood yes. Much recommend.
Le tradgey but good.
A bit weird sometimes when the kids talk about the smex but you know it do be what it do be.

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Enthralling

The voice acting was gripping and the story had so many twists and turns. The politics of space were handled incredibly by Herbert.

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Classic Dune saga

I enjoyed the storyline, with the typical twists. I felt in some places a little drawn out, and the end was rushed. However, as i said I enjoyed another part of the saga.

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