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Title: See Paul Run, See Paul Fall Down
Review: Forgetting the original series, there is absolutely no character development at all. Therefore, this is much like reading a primer that should be labeled "kiddies of dune"...slow, repetitious, pedantic. But the reality is that this book doesn't just fail on its own. The original series was "an existential metaphore that told a story about the human condition." But nothing can be learned from any of the utterly unrealistic and irrational characters in this book. Therefore, the failure of this attempt is infinately greater not because it fails to live up to the vision of Frank Herbert, but because it fails to even try.
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