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Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)
 

Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)

by Frank Herbert

(2nd in Dune Chronicles)
The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. DUNE MESSIAH picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale:... (read more)

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Andrea M
  • Rated 5 stars

“These area such wonderful tragedies. Nearly ever character is aware of their impending fate and seeking to avoid it, or by some hubris thinks that their scheming has no flaws.

Two very interesting devices that dune presents are personality cults and jihad. In the book, these two ideas are used as tools of the powerful, (take notes home land security.) People in ignorance see only that which the people in power allow them to see. Extra knowledge owned by the powerful is seen as...”

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Zontziry J
  • Rated 2 stars

“I was eager to read this after reading the first in the series. This is where the series started getting weird for me, though. I didn't feel like I had a grasp on what was going on until the end of the book - then it all fit. But frustrating until then, because I just felt completely lost.”

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  • Rated 3.863693 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • Aron

    aron said:

    “Things are started to get a little iffy since this book has even more internal dialog than the original, but I found it philosophically interesting to follow, because I love the worlds Herbert creates. ”

    posted Sunday, December 9 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
  • javelin

    javelin said:

    “I've read this book two times more than I did Dune, maybe because it was the first Dune book I owned and read. For me it is the saddest book in the whole series, when I found out that even the most powerful man in the whole universe still succumbed to his inevitable fate.”

    posted Thursday, October 4 2007
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