Moe_Syzlak
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I’m not sure if I ever read any sequels. When I saw the miniseries, it didn’t really ring any bells. I bought the three book box set for this reread so I’ll likely read those this time around.
Hope you do, I enjoyed the first three.
I finished my reread of Dune and jumped directly into Dune Messiah. This one seems to be divisive among fans. I quite enjoyed it but more in retrospect. It’s easy to understand why many fans don’t like it. It lacks the grandiosity of its predecessor, feeling more like a Shakespearean stage play for much of it. It also reminds me of The Last Jedi where the “Hero of Thousand Faces” is shown to be a human with failings after all. I did love the structure of the novel. The near entirety of the story is laid out for the reader at the outset. As a result we experience the book much as Paul experiences the life of a prescient. Then, as Paul’s prescience and, indeed, vision fail, so too does the reader’s foreknowledge of the events. Really great stuff. I may jump right into Children of Dune, but I’ll decide that tomorrow. This book seems to serve two purposes: one, a sort of epilogue for Dune and; two, a bridge to a wider series. Having never previously read any of the books other than Dune I can’t say how successful it is for the latter. But for the former, I thought it was great.