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Title: Tsk Tsk
Review: Well, I confess first - I do NOT love all of Frank Herbert's Dune books. In fact. after Children of Dune, I find them very plodding and pathetic, the work of a man who obviously stretched a trilogy into much more than he could handle. I DID like the prequel "House" books, simply based on entertainment value (despite the obvious consistency issues and the weak ending).That being said, this might be the worst of all of them. "The Butlerian Jihad" neither retains the unique vision found in the first three F. Herbert books, nor the outlandish beach-read entertainment of the B. Herbert trilogy. I won't embarass anyone with a plot summary - there is no plot of which to speak. I will simply say that I checked the book out of the library over a period of eight months, and it took every bit of my patience to put this abomination to rest.
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