Dune Messiah

By: Frank Herbert

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

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

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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Great performance

I really enjoyed all the voice actors. I use audiobooks to revisit books already read.

The reign continues

Praise Muad'dib. This novel follows Paul throughout his reign. A good continuation. slightly not as good as the first, but ends on a strong note.

A Worthy Sequel

It's nearly impossible to follow-up Frank Herbert's original Dune with an improvement. The story in the second Dune book is great but a noticeable step back, and I found myself struggling through some of it. Once it hits the final act though it really picks up and finishes well. Definitely worth the read.

Great Story, Frustrating Narration.

I like the story, although the prequel was better. My biggest issue here is the narration, which seems to jump from narrator to narrator without consistency. It is an improvement on the first book, wherein within the same chapter we'd get different voices for the same characters. With so much going on it can get confusing.

A solid follow up to Dune but alot slower

Dune Messiah is great at showing the reader how Prophets , Messiahs , and Martyrs could drastically change the world (worlds) is severely negative ways. It’s a good follow up to Dune but can feel sluggish and tends to Drag . The story feels like it’s written as a segway to what is the Next book Children of Dune and from what i’ve heard it’s really good ! I think you should definitely check this one out if you liked the first book

Incredible

Wildly engrossing. Fascinating. Deep. Herbert was truly a master of his craft. I’m excited to read the next book in the series. First, Paul became a hero. Then, he ruled the universe. Herbert reminds us that panacea does not exist—only chaos, though perhaps it is controlled chaos.

A good entry

Following up to the first book is always tough, so this did something like that, and did it well enough. Dune is such a huge epic tale, having a good sequel is a feat. This book doesn't exactly give a bunch of huge spectacles, or battles scenes to get excited about, but brings conspiracy and new beginnings. The fact that it's much shorter helps you get straight to the juicy parts, without dragging on too long. I enjoyed it for the character interactions alone. But I think it would bore most others. I just cannot see this entry making it into a full movie adaptation, but maybe as a part of one.

Listening was better than reading

An amazing performance of a great book I remembered reading more than 20 years ago.

An excellent example of a GOOD sequel!

Again, the narration and performance are simply top notch, and this is an excellent example of what a GOOD sequel is supposed to be. I can't wait to get into Children of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune!

great book bad editing

The book itself is great. Frank Herbert's writing is uniquely brilliant. But the editing of this recording is pretty bad. I really like the voice acting but so many sentences are cut off at the start of them that it's extremely difficult to listen to. Particularly in the last few chapters it becomes very hard to decipher what is happening because of the constant skips. it's really frustrating and if you have another option for reading this book I suggest you use it and skip this audio version.