(May 10, 2017 at 10:12 pm)Fireball Wrote: I browsed a couple of the knock offs after Frank Herbert died. Looked like an effort to trade on dad's name for a buck. I haven't sat and read any of them.
Agreed from the ones I did read to make it through the main chronology. But then again, personally, I loathe Kevin J. Anderson's writing style.
(May 10, 2017 at 10:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(May 10, 2017 at 8:41 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I've only read Dune.
Tried one of the others but found it very hard to get into.
For my money, the story ended with GEoD. The first and third were my favorites. Paul as the Preacher in Children of Dune really struck me, how he mustered force of personality and words to convey his message.
I found a lot of thinking to be had in those first four books: how religions are constructed, how people move to primal urges, how people have different levels to them that aren't necessarily plain to the untrained eye.
Good points.
And agreed with them. As well as the allusion to our oil addiction in the form of Spice and CHOAM as OPEC.
