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Title: Nah, I Don't Buy It.
Review: This book was a very long and mostly boring brood-fest in which the protagonist finds himself trapped in an unhappy and inevitable fate. This fate being the jihad to be carried out by his followers. I just don't buy it. Why can't he stop it? I think that Frank Herbert wants us to be so impressed with the over-complex under-explained dialogue that we feel like we are too small to have a valid opinion. The protagonist is just so inhumanly smart, so vastly more intelligent than us, we cannot possibly know of his problems. But then Paul Atreides doesn't exist, there is only Frank Herbert, and he is only human. To me it just smells of BS.The first book (Dune) was good. But like the Earth's Children series, I think it ends there. If you read Dune and want another Frank Herbert, I recommend picking up "The White Plague". Not the best book, not even top ten but intriguing and original.
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