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Title: Not one of Herbert's best
Review: Having read most of Herbert's works, I found Survivor lacking some of the elements that have attracted me towards his writing over the years. In Survivor, once again, you have a middle age male heroin. However, in this novel, things are a little abnormal as instead of trying to save the world from a supernatural phenomenon, he is searching for some kind of inner truth in why he was a survivor of a deadly plane crash. For its time (1976), the concept of the novel was original and reflecting back, I enjoyed the premise. However, I found reading the novel quite taxing and I struggled to finish it. If you enjoy Herbert, try reading the Fog, Shrine, or the Rats trilogy. I enjoyed these novels much more than Survivor.
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