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Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers
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Publisher's summary

Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007

Long-listed, Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007

Audie Award winner, 2008

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family—and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.

©1965 Frank Herbert (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic reviews

Audie Award Winner, Science Fiction, 2008
Nebula Award winner, Best Novel, 1965
Hugo Award winner, Best Novel, 1966

"Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings." (Arthur C. Clarke)

"One of the monuments of modern science fiction." (Chicago Tribune)

"Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious." (Robert A. Heinlein)

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Beyond raising fascinating possibilities, the best works of science fiction ask big questions: What does it mean to be human? What will the future look like? What mysteries does the universe hold, and what do they mean for life on Earth? Whether you choose to escape via audiobook, movie, or television, these science fiction stories are truly out of this world—in all their incarnations.

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Great story buuuut…..

1) I recommend listening to this. That said:
2) the productions was weird. The changes in voice actors is stark and distracting.

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Great Book

With the exception of some editing errors (wrong voice for an established character), it's great. I enjoyed the background music.

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Great read!

The back and forth narration between actors & the narrator was jarring at first, but after awhile I got used to it! So glad I was able to finally read this classic!

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Great Clasic story

Would you listen to Dune again? Why?

I have listened to this story many times over the past 17 years of my driving job. but I have only listened to it one time sense the new production came out and it will be the last time. it is a very poor production job and takes to much away from the automatic imagination cues that are in the story.

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Amazing story, awful audiobook

The story of Dune is fantastic, but I don't know what they were thinking when they put together this audiobook. half the time there's a standard narrator, who is narrating the chapters and doing all the characters (and he does a great job!), but the other half of the time, there's a full cast and it turns into a radio drama. there's no rhyme or reason to it and it's very distracting.

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Excellent book to listen to

I watched the theatrical version of Dune 1&2 and enjoyed them so much I figured it was time to give the book a listen. I really like how true to the book the movies are made. I enjoyed the voices of the narrators as well. It served to give the characters body and personality. Sometimes the book belabors a point but overall it is a great listen!

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A view of Dune

In this era of super heroes, post apocalyptic epics and all manner of 'super' stories, Dune stands tall. It has the required good versus evil and the underdog triumphing over superior forces. However, it offers more, something that will catch and hold the attention of most, regardless of age, sex or ethnicity. I highly recommend it

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Brilliant book, great performances, slight confusing

Love the writing, the performance, it was a hard book to voice over, yet all narrators had perfected their voices and tones. The only criticism would be when the narration switches back and forth to the main narrator portraying all characters to multiple narrators taking on each role.

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read it thrice, listening was great

such a complex story with lots of strange words...hearing Muad Dib gor instance, adds a new twist in the book. I dint think a movie capturing the full depth of this book is possible.. but it worked for Audio

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Good book. Some issues with narration

This book was fun to listen to. My only issue is that the narration changes throughout the book. One chapter the primary narrator will be the voice of Paul then the next chapter it’s someone else as the voice of Paul while the main narrator continue to read along. It does this with all characters. A little annoying when the same character essentially has 2 different voices.

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