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Title: Let me try again
Review: The prequels of Herbert and Anderson are truly an abomination in the Dune universe. They remind me of the start of the movie "The Player" where the camera is panning around a film studio listening in at potentai movie pitches and you hear stuff like "The Graduate...Part2" - because true Art can't be improved on - especially by men of lesser abilities.The sweep and grandure of the original Dune novel is utterly lost in the terrible writing style of Herbert and Anderson. And their most unforgivable sin ( amongst many ) is the relentless repetion of the plot lines because they assume their readers are stupid.Frank never assumed that. And that's why Dune and Dune Messiah endure and all the post Frank Herbert sequels pale under any comparision.Not sure what happened to my earlier reviews of this book and of House Atriedes, so I am putting in my two cents worth again, back on the side of the real fans.
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