Dune Messiah

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, Simon Vance

The epic, multimillion-selling science-fiction series continues! The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment.

Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men.

But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?

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A nice continuation

I really did love the first title in the series, and plan to continue through the rest. There are 2 parts to any review of an audio book, the story and the narration, so let's break this into two.

1. The story. It was slow to get into, especially for a short book. It starts as a series of meetings, and slowly start pulling the story together. By about 3/4 of the way through you start to get back to what you excepted from Dune. It does a nice job telling the story of Paul, and over all was an enjoyable story. 3.5 stars.

2. The narration. I found it more than acceptable, and much better than many books. I was a little hesitant after reading some reviews, but it was no where near as bad as I had feared. It wasn't fantastic like the first book which truely is stellar. So I can understand how this would be a led down compared to that book. Over all it worked well and was an enjoyable listen, and it did not get in the way of the book, and may have even helped. When compared to other books 4/5 stars.

Long time Herbert fan...

I've been a fan of Frank Herbert for many years, and I'm glad to see that Audible.com is FINALLY getting some of his work. Dune Messiah is every bit the fabulous book I remember, but the narration leaves something to be desired. The pronunciations of various words and phrases unique to the Dune novels are at odds with both the films and with other readings of Dune novels (like George Guidall's adept reading of Dune for Borders Audiobooks). It also seems unnecessary and disorienting to have multiple narrators, and some of them are too obviously English for the reading to jive with the cadence and syntax of Herbert, an American writer. Not fatal flaws, but something to gripe about...

Dune Messiah

Its the second book in the original Frank Herbert dune series. While much shorter than the first book it still very well done and packed with events that start about 12 years after paul taking the throne. the narroration is more consistant in this book and characters are often voiced by there VA this time around. I cant wait to start Children of dune next.

Off the rails

Off the rails fun, more world building and shorter than Dune. Ah wacky Bene Geserits

An entire novel for one conspiracy

You do get some back story as to more details about the universe but it's mostly conversations between people about one cone conspiracy to dethrone Paul.

There could have been more story or Action. It feels like everything happens thing happens in between chapters and talked about later.

There were some problems with the performance because it became hard to tell the difference between Paul's sister and Paul's wife and there could have been more effort to draw distinction between them voice wise.

The switch between narrators seem to be arbitrary. Perhaps with the movie we might get a full voice cast audio version that would be easier to follow.

Still reading but Paul is letting me down...

I am still in chapter 1, however the change to having the actor playing Paul Atreides do the narration is quite shocking coming immediately from book 1. The main problem is he reads everything in the exact same voice as his character, for everyone and everything. He occasionally gets his rants pretty good but that's his role as Paul, definitely felt like the main narrator from Dune should've continued. Lot of the names are the same so hopefully it changes soon, thankfully its only like 8 hours long

Excellent, just excellent

Excellently written and very well performed. I really enjoyed listening to this after I finally discovered Dune last month. I would highly recommend this one for any Herbert fan who have already delved into the world of Arrackis.

A powerful classic!

Identity, free will, and countless other subjects are dealt with in this timeless masterpiece. The reader is treated to a dynamic drama that focuses on truth.

Fantastic

The story was wonderful as always with Frank Herbert's work, but one might find the main plot device, Paul's prescience, quite frustrating. He already knows the majority of the events as they unfold, but they're obfuscated from the reader. This also is the book's greatest strength, and the true tragedy of Paul Atreides. He is caught in a web of his own making walking a knife edge path that stops the populated worlds from falling into ultimate, brutal violence, the likes of which his Jihad, which claimed the lives of over 60 billion people would be dwarfed behind the horrors that Paul is staying. He is tied with destiny in order to insure the lives of his progeny and all who yet live. To strive towards the golden path.

the rest of the story

I love the fact I could listen to what the movie the "The Children of Dune" could not tell you