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Dune: House Atreides (Prelude to Dune Book 1) (eBook)

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  • Dune: House Atreides begins the epic worldwide bestselling trilogy that tells of the generation before Dune and sows the seeds for great heroes, vile enemies, and terrible tyrants.

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Various Retailers have Dune: House Atreides (Prelude to Dune Book 1) by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (eBook) on sale for $2.99.

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  • Dune: House Atreides begins the epic worldwide bestselling trilogy that tells of the generation before Dune and sows the seeds for great heroes, vile enemies, and terrible tyrants.

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count0
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Just read Dune until the end of "Children of Dune." Stop there.
IgorGr
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I won't dissuade anyone from reading, but as a life long fan of Frank Herbert's original work - his son's novels are all awful. He fundamentally misses the nuances of what made his father's work timeless, lacks creativity and are generally poorly written. I would not recommend.

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May 15, 2023 11:10 PM
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jdrchMay 15, 2023 11:10 PM
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I had some digital rewards so I blew them on this. Thanks.
May 16, 2023 11:34 AM
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UniqueUserNameHereMay 16, 2023 11:34 AM
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Always rep a good Dune deal (even though I already had this one).
May 16, 2023 01:11 PM
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ChrisC7705May 16, 2023 01:11 PM
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Are these books written by his son any good? I typically avoid story continuations when the original author passed.
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May 16, 2023 01:18 PM
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HoviMay 16, 2023 01:18 PM
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Quote from ChrisC7705 :
Are these books written by his son any good? I typically avoid story continuations when the original author passed.
I've not heard great things about them so I've personally avoided them.
May 16, 2023 01:42 PM
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Jfunk910May 16, 2023 01:42 PM
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Quote from ChrisC7705 :
Are these books written by his son any good? I typically avoid story continuations when the original author passed.
I read this one a few years ago and I really disliked it. I was able to finish but didn't keep going through the trilogy. It reads like a bad fan fiction. Would love to hear other perspectives or if the rest of the trilogy was good.
May 16, 2023 01:53 PM
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jfeMay 16, 2023 01:53 PM
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Quote from Hovi :
I've not heard great things about them so I've personally avoided them.
I read all of them, I did enjoy them. Then again, the last of the Dune books were so bad that this was quite refreshing in comparison
May 16, 2023 01:54 PM
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fanglekaiMay 16, 2023 01:54 PM
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Quote from ChrisC7705 :
Are these books written by his son any good? I typically avoid story continuations when the original author passed.
They're really poorly written and are basically fan fiction. Their whole terminator AI nonsense has nothing to do with what Frank wrote.

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May 16, 2023 01:56 PM
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HoviMay 16, 2023 01:56 PM
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Quote from jfe :
I read all of them, I did enjoy them. Then again, the last of the Dune books were so bad that this was quite refreshing in comparison
Curious as to which books you're referring to or to how you would rank the original books then?

May 16, 2023 01:59 PM
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count0May 16, 2023 01:59 PM
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Just read Dune until the end of "Children of Dune." Stop there.
May 16, 2023 02:27 PM
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JesseJ7009May 16, 2023 02:27 PM
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I really enjoyed this and the other books in this series. I read this when it came out in 1999-2000. Remember this was written 34 years after Dune came out in 1965. Don't expect Dune. The originals got weird as they went on. Sit back and enjoy this universe.
May 16, 2023 02:28 PM
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TheVeganButcherMay 16, 2023 02:28 PM
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Quote from fanglekai :
They're really poorly written and are basically fan fiction. Their whole terminator AI nonsense has nothing to do with what Frank wrote.
Frank Herbert didn't write about the Butlerian Jihad/Machine Crusade?
May 16, 2023 03:03 PM
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LexGregorMay 16, 2023 03:03 PM
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Quote from ChrisC7705 :
Are these books written by his son any good? I typically avoid story continuations when the original author passed.
I won't dissuade anyone from reading, but as a life long fan of Frank Herbert's original work - his son's novels are all awful. He fundamentally misses the nuances of what made his father's work timeless, lacks creativity and are generally poorly written. I would not recommend.
May 16, 2023 03:09 PM
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StyopashkaMay 16, 2023 03:09 PM
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Quote from jfe :
I read all of them, I did enjoy them. Then again, the last of the Dune books were so bad that this was quite refreshing in comparison
I finally slogged my way through the whole Dune series a few years ago. Before that I had only made through Children of Dune. I liked the series a lot better after I watched a bunch of explainer videos on YouTube. Frank Herbert had an amazing imagination but was terrible with exposition. There is literally no explanation of what is happening in any of the books.
May 16, 2023 03:11 PM
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cjc15153May 16, 2023 03:11 PM
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Quote from Jfunk910 :
I read this one a few years ago and I really disliked it. I was able to finish but didn't keep going through the trilogy. It reads like a bad fan fiction. Would love to hear other perspectives or if the rest of the trilogy was good.
They're Dune, so they're cool. They're the son, so they're pretty bad. It's like Dino DeLaurentis got Michael Bay to make prequels to the Lynch adaptation.

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May 16, 2023 04:01 PM
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spectheintroMay 16, 2023 04:01 PM
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Quote from count0 :
Just read Dune until the end of "Children of Dune." Stop there.
Honestly, I'd say stop after the original Dune. The follow ups (Dune Messiah and Children of Dune) are really poorly written in comparison: in both novels, there are pages and pages of exhausting, needlessly complicated dialogue that add nothing to the story. Dune feels a bit slow at times only because so much is happening; in the following novels, literally nothing happens for a hundred pages, then everything happens at once, and all of it feels forced.
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