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

Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins

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)

love dune

aside from the baron having a couple different voices the performance is expert. scott brick is one of the very best in his biz. of course the story is excellent and well deserving of its place among the great works of fiction.

Wonderful!! Truly a masterpiece

It took me just 4 days to finish this I couldn’t put it down. 10/10 recommend to anyone, even people who aren’t crazy for science fiction it’s a perfect piece of literature for any mind. The only criticism is the change in Voice Actor for The Baron halfway through that was a little odd but a minor difference either way. Enjoy!!

Mid-conversation voice change?

Changing character voices mid-dialogue is an odd production choice that is at best confusing. Otherwise, it’s well done.

first time

a long time favorite of mine. this is my first time listening to an audible book. it was enjoyable.

Great!

This novel was a great read when I was a young teen, though tough, and some concepts eluded me at the time. I feel some of the performance, though exceptional, was cause for confusion. The swapping between actors and narrator playing the same characters was difficult to manage at times. it may have been better had the narrator and actors come together so they could mimic each others mannerisms, or have the actors play their characters, only. Also, some of the smaller details that give many of the scenes a lot of context, were not portrayed in as concise a manner as reading the book could. Those being my only meritous gripes, it gave a lot of depth and emotion to what the silver screen has failed to do on more than one occasion so far. fingers crossed for the new film adaptation, though.

Odd performance

It goes without saying that Dune is a masterpiece of storytelling.

The main issues with this audiobook are some minor production issues. First, the use of voice actors is inconsistent. Sometimes a voice actor will appear for a character in one chapter, disappear in the next, and then return later which can be odd. Second, the production uses this desert wind sound effect at odd times for no consistent reason. It’s like the producers said “Have we used that wind effect in a while? We haven’t? Let’s use it now.” It’s strange. Next, the quotations that come at the beginning of each chapter in the book are put at the end of each chapter here and are sometimes cut off by the transition from chapter to chapter. Also some chapter are randomly combined to creat hour long sessions for no reason. I know these sound like a lot of problems but they’re really just a bunch of minor things that bugged me. I still recommend this as satisfactory audiobook version of the greatest sci-fi novel of all time.

Hit and miss

The story is great. I really enjoyed it. The voice performers were good but I feel like sometimes the voices were not consistently used by the same characters.

Great sify

Wonderfully entertaining. The first audio book I've read performed by a cast not just a narration. I have loved dune for more than 50 years this version was as good as it gets

HOLY CRAP!!!

I’ve read a lot of sci-fi in my life, and I’ve seen both the David Lynch and Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of this novel but none of that had prepared me for how awesome this book is!!! A must read, and with the forthcoming attempt at adapting Dune again only months away - well worth the 20 hours! I will tell you nothing more than you should read this now.

good but not great

This is good adaption of the book. My only criticism is with the jump between the use of voice actors and the narrator. Some scenes would use the voice actors but then the next scene would use the narrator only. it was just jarring.