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)

great book, kinda strange recording, but still goo

I've read Dune before so I know the first few chapters are a little slow going, but it's worth it.
The only problem I had with this audiobook was the changing of voices. There were times when it was a full cast production and then it would switch to a single narrator abruptly (and not just the thoughts of people, but dialogue as well). I guess it was just that some moments were more theatrical, which is nice, but sometimes made the story hard to follow.

One of the most amazing sci-fi books ever written.

This book made my imagination explode. Such an amazing story and journey for me. I will listen to it again and again!

It's Dune for gods sake

The book was always one of my favorites and the audio book did it justice. Voice actors fit the story and characters perfectly.

this book was amazing from start to finish

the narrator was amazing! the extra touches with the sounds. if the story was on a ship you had engine noises, if you were in the desert you had shifting sands. the voices were well done for nearly everyone.

Great story, amazing world building

You don't need to like fantasy or Sci Fi to appreciate the masterpiece that is this novel. Both the story and narration are superb, this will definitely make the short list of best books I have ever listened to or read, and the narration is great (with one caveat, the Baron Harkanan appears to be voiced by two different people, one is amazing and the other is awful, but it's a minor quibble overall).

A Life Experience

My only fear was had been what the quality of the recording would be. Fortune dealt that such fears were baseless; thus, I beg you to grant yourself the chance to experience life, imbued with truth.

Great story

The fact that they switch back and forth from the full cast to only the narrator doing all the parts is a bit distracting. Other than that, this was an excellent performance, for both the cast and the narrator.

Inconsistent naration

I only wish the narration was consistent in who voiced the characters. It went back and forth between voice actors and the narrator doing all the the voices. The narrator did well. The voice actors did well. It would have been nice if they had stuck with a choice. The story was as good as expected.

A Classic!

Would you consider the audio edition of Dune to be better than the print version?

Absolutely! Even though I had heard of Dune I had never read it... once I listened to this audio version I was hooked into listening to the rest of series. The background music and sounds added tremendously to the experience. Even though I listened to this book years ago I can still hear the sounds of Arrakis.

Who was your favorite character and why?

This production was so well done and I enjoyed hearing each interpretation.

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

All of them!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes and I tried... I would listen at every chance I could, in the car, shopping, falling asleep and so on.

Any additional comments?

This is such a classic and well done by each of the narrators... I always recommend this book to friends new to Audible.

Great voice cast

Other than a good scifi storyline the cast did a wonderful job reading and being the characters. There was a good sense of character emotion and and cadence. I would recommend listening at 1.25 speed because some language is drawn out for effect.