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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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Bravo!

I was able to lose myself in this; amazing production, which is what I expect in an audiobook.
This performance of Dune does not disappoint!

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A Strange Performance

A weird half narrated half dramatized version.

One chapter the Baron's voice is a deep, fat, booming one, and the next the narrator does his best to make an interesting approximation. Confusing at times, and bizzare at other moments.

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Good book.

I like warhammer and star wars so it's nice to see their inspiration... .

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Takes some getting used to

the book took a few chapters to really capture my attention, but it's definitely a good one. the jumping between the narrator doing the voices for characters to the random sprinkling of voice actors reading the lines for the same characters throws me off a little. it would have been better to either have the narrator narrate and voice actors voice the characters entirely or to just have the narrator do everything.

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Compelling story well performed

Though I was familiar with the broad outlines of this book I wanted to experience the full story. I found the narration as well as the acting in certain parts brought this occasionally ponderous tale to life. Though I don’t think I will continue through the other books in this series I did enjoy this one more than I thought I would.

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switching accents and tries too hard to be epic

a bit off putting switching between American and British accents for characters. Also feel the story tries too hard to be epic.

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Good story. Questionable production.

Overall enjoyed, but the switch between one voice actor for multiple characters and then full cast is jarring. Makes no sense why they would do that.

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Good book!

Awesome book! kinda hard to follow and do other things at times! but wow, can't wait to start the next one

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Learn to pronounce Kwisatz Haderach

The voice acting is all over the place when they should have just stuck with the wonderful Simon Vance. It has not stopped me from finishing this one over 12 times however. all the pronunciations are apparently taken from reading Herbert has done giving you a one-up over most fans. Hands down my favorite series of all time

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Holy moly

What a spectacular book! I had troubles putting it down at times. I was so enthralled by the world and characters. My only regret is not getting into the series sooner.

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