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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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A good but inconsistent read of a great book

Great read, but there are inconsistencies in the performance. At times the characters are read by a full voice cast, but at other times the narrator is doing his own voices for the characters, and there are points where this switches mid-chapter. The narrator and most of the cast are great, don't get me wrong, but the shifts can be jarring.

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Excellent

Excellent. Excellent. Excellent!!! Particularly liked the use of different voice actors to cement the story.

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Engaging

Performance was great. I really enjoyed this book. After now seeing the movie as well, I prefer the way the characters are portrayed and narrated in this book. The story itself evolves really well. It’s written in a slow, even progression.

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one of the literary greats

its dune, a piece of science fiction to inspire the entirety of scifi fantasy.

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A Triumph in World Building and Science Fiction

This was my first book on audible and made me call in love with both the service itself and the series of Dune. Can't recommend it enough!

The narration is fantastic although be warned that should you continue the series (which you should at least through Messiah to follow Paul's story) then be warned that the sequels are narrated traditionally instead of including the full cast seen here.

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awesome book

This is the 2nd time I've listened to the book and I've end it once. Great to read or listen if you missed some references in the book

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excellent

This is superb, on all fronts! Sucks you right in! Bravo for the cast and how they brought the story to life. Only complaint is the sound effects and low rumbles, they were annoying at times.

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A gripping tale.

I liked this from beginning to end. Thanks Matt Colville for recommending this book to his subscribers on Twitch and YouTube.

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A great story, with some mediocre voice acting

As much as I wanted to love this audiobook, they really butchered parts of it with just no quality control. The main complaint is in them using 3 drastically different voices throughout the book for the Baron Harkonnen. The rest was okay at best. Great book, mediocre voice work, take it for what it's worth.

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excellent book!

slow to start with so much information. the book however was riveting once a bit of necessary information was gathered. i am hooked and will listen to the remainder of the series!

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