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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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Amazing Audiobook

The voice actors are so glade. Gurney Halleck and the Emperor Might be the best audio book actors I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. REALLY well done.

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Loved it!

Voice acting was amazing, plot was great. Warfare, politics, mystique. Lives up to its reputation as a classic.

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weirdest audio production

a book reader should get out of the way. too much soundtrack effects, multiple voices for the same character, a musical score... all very distracting

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Why is it only fully cast sometimes?

I rated the performance low not because any narrator/performer did a poor job, but rather because I do not understand why they choose to use a full cast performance only in a few sections in random chapters. the rest of the time the narrator was left doing all the voices. He did a fine job, it was just very confusing.

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A decent production

The audio was a bit too soft (hard to hear even turned all the way up without speaker amplification). I also question the ever shifting voices for the same characters...why couldn't they have stuck to the same narrator for characters? Otherwise, it was a great production and made reading this book that could be a bit dry (pun intended) more lively and engaging.

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Dune is the greatest

More important for me than the Bible. Thats it.

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A sci-fi classic for a reason!

simply amazing start to finish! I put off reading it for so long, well I just finished and am about to restart it!

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A Classic

Before listening to this audio book. I had only seen Dune on television, the motion picture version and the Sci-Fi channel mini series. The book was as I expected better than both, though very close to the later. The story was excellent and I look forward to grabbing more from the Dune universe.

The performances where all quite good, the characters where all easily identified and read well. I would heartily recommend this audio book to any science fiction or fantasy fan.

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marvelous, I hope there's more!

This book will be constantly referenced in my mind every time I think about someone's intentions, is both a ScyFi as well as a Psicology work. It is hard to start but harder to close it the last time. totally recommend for courios and imaginative minds.

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amazing book and really good performance

amazing story, characters and development. the performance and cast of readers is really great too.

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