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Title: Done with "Dune"
Review: To be succinct, this is a bad book. Poorly written, slackly plotted, full of cliches and predicabilities, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have succeeded in grinding Frank Herbert's brilliant creation into pure, unreadable hackwork.Their previous trilogy of "Dune" prequels ("House Atreides", "House Harkonnen" and "House Corinno") was acceptable at best, but at least held my interest, even as I was aware that the overall quality of the writing was deteriorating as the series progressed. Now, however, they cannot provoke even the momentary suspension of disbelief, as every page, practically every paragraph, is larded with indigestible chunks of bad writing.This guys have succeeded in putting me off the "Dune" universe for good, something that Frank Herbert, even at his worst, never came close to doing. Good work, fellows, you have managed to convert gold into dross.
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