Unabridged Audiobook
I do not know why there are so many bad reviews. Overall great book.
Amazing novel loved every second...
Very well narrated
Despite it not being written by Frank Herbert, this book really hit the mark and satisfied a craving fan who just wanted more Dune. Amazing addition to the best scifi ever.
A fun listen but I honestly think the musical interruptions are jarring and ultimately annoying.
The recording simply put was awful. Many skipped places many garbled passages
Could not finish the first disc. The apple fell far from the tree.
Eye-roll inducing 2-d characters for most part. Skip to third book Battle of Corrin which is actually not bad or so cringeworthy. This one unfortunately like most of Star wars EU books and a lot of B or C level sci-fi is what i call "bro-fiction." Most characters in this one are all good or all bad and a lot of it is stale. Read the third one though Battle of Corrin.
It is a wonderful story however the book skips throughout the story in some places it skips full paragraphs.
I read the original Dune many years ago and loved that story so I wanted to read more on the history of Dune and have been very pleased with this audiobook.
Great history of the Dune universe. Narrator has smooth voice with perfect enunciation.
I was very preased wiht this title. It also is making some areas not understood before easier. I think that it would have been better to read this first before Dune it explains alot
Clearly, in this first book/first CDs, the authors felt the need to 'set the stage' so to speak for all that was to come. Boring boring boring and confusing. Don't get me wrong: I love Dune, but Dune this ain't. The narration, to put it bluntly, stinks. He's got a droning voice, odd emphasis in the sentences that has nothing to do with what's actually going on and adds nothing whatsoever to the tale. Too many characters, too much boring narration of eons of history, and too much this-is-so-cool-I-can't-stand-myself grandstanding by the authors. That said, I sill want to see how it all turns out so I'm struggling through the rest of the CDs. After all, I'm stuck in this car, right? Gotta listen to something!
If you are a Dune fan, this isn't for you. If you aren't a Dune fan, this isn't for you. It's terrible writing with no thought given to either the plot or the characters. Dune itself had some wonky writing but overcame that with a fascinating backround, plot, and set of characters. This book has none of these, and is topped off with narration in which random words are emphasized in an attempt to make it sound interesting. It's the first audiobook I've returned without finishing...after thirteen hours, I couldn't take any more. It's really painful.
I hate to say this, especially since the original Dune trilogy fascinated me when I first read it, but this prequel is a colossal bore. I trudged through it out of a sense of loyalty, but would not recommend it to anyone except very hardcore fans. The dialogue was awful, the characters numerous and forgettable, and the narrator detached and unexpressive.
VERY GOOD ENJOYED LISTENING. DUNE IS MY FAVORITE BUT I WOULD HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO READ SO THIS WAS GREAT.
This book is poorly written. I've been trying to think of a nicer way to say it, but that's it: it's poorly written. The dialogue is so stilted it comes off unintentionally hilarious. The plot is overly complex and yet only interesting in its relationship to Dune trilogy. The prose is of that school of sci-fi hackery that demands sentences be heavily salted with modifiers. Also, it's not read very well. The narrator seemed nearly as uniterested in what was happening as I was. Recommended only for the fedaykin.
This book has a fascinating plot with interesting characters that are easy to relate to. The only drawbacks are that its a little slow in plot developement and there are a large amount of characters. The characters that aren't as important to the plot are hard to keep straight.
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