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Re: Hunters of Dune
Tue, July 4, 2006 - 8:01 AMHo boy, I'm really afraid. It could be good or it could be really, really awful. I'll read it because I have to. The Dune world has long held me in its grip, but I loved the unknown aspect of where Dune 6 left off. Now we are going to watch Duncan and his shipload of present and past characters (Muad'Dib, Chani, Jessica, Stilgar, Yueh) battle some unknown foe. I can only hope that they finally figure out how to write to the depths that Frank did. Otherwise, it will read like a shoot-em-up video game version of the story. -
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Tue, July 4, 2006 - 8:04 AMThe first four chapters are on the website if you want to read it -
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Sun, August 13, 2006 - 1:54 PMchapter 1:
www.dunenovels.com/dune7blog/page43.html
chapter 2:
www.dunenovels.com/dune7blog/page55.html
chapter 3:
www.dunenovels.com/dune7blog/page66.html
chapter 4:
www.dunenovels.com/dune7blog/page76.html -
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Mon, August 14, 2006 - 9:38 PMBy chapter 4 it got tolerable, sort of.
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Tue, September 5, 2006 - 2:34 PMI couldn't afford the book because I'm kind of broke, but I did read as many of the quotations at the beginning of each chapter as I could. I must say many were amazing, kind of like daily affirmations with a tinge of the infinite potentiality thrown in. I really dug em.
peace,
/\/\ike
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Romper Dune
Thu, September 7, 2006 - 3:42 AMUnfortunately those two reiterate themselves so often in their writing... I fought my way through all 6 prequels a couple years ago, and upon glancing at the prose of "hunters of dune" I felt sadly reminded of how BH/KA write books. They use first-grade reading skills to present a universe that never failed to challenge adult readers, undeniably due to FH's ability to respect the reader's intelligence. I think BH missed this concept during his time collaborating "man of two worlds". -
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Re: Romper Dune
Tue, November 7, 2006 - 12:03 AMHey!?!
Do you think its because he has been trying to play on his father's legacy?
I never really had inkling to read KJA or BH, and to some degree I still don’t. I wonder if BH’s editor was like “BH, your sells are dropping. Why don’t you try a hand at that Dune thing?” A similar thing happened to Chester Himes, when his editor asked him to write his Harlem series.
The simplicity of their writing didn't really bother me too much. I just assumed the different writers would have a different perspective on where the story should go. I liked how as Dune flowed, therefore the universe changed into one basically ruled by women. Or at least the major players were two different female factions.
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Sat, December 30, 2006 - 10:45 PMHas anybody read this yet?
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Re: Hunters of Dune
Sun, July 29, 2007 - 9:15 PMOK. I finally read it. Ugh. It was awful. I really wanted it to be good. I was OK with the 3 prequel novels just before Dune (not the way early prequels--they were horrid), but I figured they could continue on after book 6 with my favorite characters, but I think it was worse than even those way early prequels. *sigh* I think I will literally burn the book. No one else should read the thing. Enough already! But I'm so bummed.
