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Book Reviews of Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)

Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)
Dune Messiah - Dune Chronicles, Book 2
Author: Frank Herbert
ISBN-13: 9780399102264
ISBN-10: 0399102264
Publication Date: 11/5/1976
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3
This is the sequel to Dune. It is a great continuation of a great story. The characters continue to grow and develop while the story finds new ways to remain intriguing.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book has a considerably different tone than the first book; much more melancholy, and it was even deeper and more complex, which may or may not be a good thing. It is not light reading. Much like the first book it was slow to get into at first, but was very engrossing by the middle and I couldn't put it down by the end. If you enjoyed the first book I highly recommend continuing the Dune Chronicles. Herbert has a magnificent voice and has created a stunning, deeply crafted world to rival that of Middle Earth.
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Book 2 of the Dune series - a wonderful story that has a strong correlation to today's geopolitical situation
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Original Dune is better but this is a great continuation of the series.
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I love the Dune Chronicles. They seem to encompasse so much - from political theory to philosophy to family allegiance. Each book is immensely complex.
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Not the best follow-up, but worth reading just to get to the rest of the series.
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A mediore follow up....none of the books that followed were as good as the first.
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Great continuation of the Dune chronicles.
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My husband is rereading this series and loves it. He was so happy I was able to find a copy of Dune Messiah here at PaperBackSwap for him!
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The Dune books should have ended with this one. The rest are silly IMO. Good read and still interesting. Semi-advanced reading.
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From the back cover: "With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's magnigicent Dune books stand amoung the major achievement of the human imagination.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muab'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing..."