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)

Amazing and immersive!

It's a little bit of a slow start but I guarantee if you stick with it you will be transported to an awesome world through the engaging and vivid writing style of Frank Herbert

Great story, narration ok

I really enjoyed this novel. Sort of “Game of Thrones” meets “Star Wars.” However, I didn’t always like the narration of this audiobook. For some chapters, there were other voice actors narrating lines for particular characters, and in other chapters, it was only the main narrator doing his own different voices for each character. It was very inconsistent and would take me out of the story having to readjust my mind to the new character voices. If the story wasn’t so good, I likely would have stopped listening to it. So if this thing doesn’t bother you or you can look past it, you should do fine with this audiobook. Otherwise, you might want to seek out another option if there is one.

Dune

Very very long book It was interesting enough but still struggled to get through it

Outstanding

I absolutely love Dune, I usually read it annually, this most recent time to help me get ready for the release of the new movie 🎬 🎞. Frank Herbert could not have been more correct charismatic leaders should come with a warning label. Be careful about what you wish for because some day you just might get it!

Ditch the voices, use Scott Brick only!

I would have preferred just Scott Brick to narrate. I was disappointed that this was called unabridged when it was missing some phrases and whole sentences; e.g. when Stilgar asks Jessica a question during the Jamis fight but stops himself as he recalls he told her not to speak. The different voices took some getting used to and seemed quite campy at times, like someone just learning to narrate and trying to sound dramatic but being too much so.

Timeless Story

This Sci-fi work belongs to the lists of classics like Ray Bradbury's work. The novel had a timeless appeal and will be as appealing to readers in 50 years as it is now.

good story, horrible narration

the narration is horrible, its like musical narrators and detracts from the otherwise good story

A great story

The narrator work was great. Some chapters have voice acting and in others, the narrator does the voices too. While it can be confusing at times, I did not find it hard to follow and understand the story.

Epoch tale of empire, revolution and rebirth.

First read this book in the 80s. It only got better over time. The recent movie was done well too.

great scence of the gradness of the desert

good book would recomend needs more graphic explicit keep up the good work audible this app is amazing nice job book good