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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Interesting.....

I liked the intellect behind the words. Some new thoughts and vocabulary. Hard to follow at first; once one is accustomed to the flow it is easier to follow. Kind of like watching a societal game of chess by only focusing on the king and queen.

Best story ever

Classic that opened the door of great writing and sci fi for me. The book that is so much better than any show. “AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY”

Mejor saga de ciencia ficción

combinación entre Game of Thrones, Star Wars y El Señor de los Anillos. La recomiendo.

Feedback loop

This how Paul finds himself of feedback loop of vision and future...and seeks to subvert it. The story is clever, compelling, and strangely right. It is everything placed just as it should be.

A necessary evil...

This book suffers from the power creep in the last one. Our hero is overpowered and we don't know how to have interesting adventures with him anymore... the only thing to do is sit around and pontificate, and wait for the plot to somehow get rid of Paul. The book mostly consists of talking, and talking about talking, and vague magic powers stuff. Pretty weak.
High hopes for the next one though.

Skips in the recording

There are quite a few skips in the recording and its really annoying. Other than that, the story is amazing and the performance is great.

Good, but nowhere as good as the first book.

I enjoyed listening to the story for the most part, but I often found it over political. It was easy to get a bit bored with the narrative. overall it was still a good book though, just a little disappointing compared to the first book.

Dark Spirited Sequel

This is not the Dune you fell in love with, but this I'd the direction Frank wanted to take the story and I respect his execution of the idea. This book has a dark, almost nasty tone towards "Perfect" Paul Atreides. The elements you crave from this series are all still here, political plots, visual delights from a uniquely creative mind, exotic gadgets with bizarre implications, and a reality that gives this story its special touch. It's short, it's ugly, but it's more Dune!

The reading is done in a similar style as the first book but instead of a rotating cast of voices with a main narrator, it's a rotating cast of narrators to suit each chapter. Cool to hear the voice of Paul in the first audiobook production as Paul's new omniscient narrator. Some pronunciation mishaps here and there but that's bound to happen with Herbert's bizarre psuedo-conlang. I recommend this to anyone who felt like they wanted more of anything like the first book, and people who just want to know more of Paul's story. If you prefer book one as a contained entity, I respect your point of view but personally think you're missing out on further greatness. Onto book three!

Decent continuation but a great reading

I read some of the reviews for this book, but after absolutely taken by Dune, I had to keep going. They weren't wrong. The story in itself is quite slow and doesn't keep up with the tone already set. What little action the book did have came at a quick ending. The narration wasn't easy to follow either and would have much preferred a single narrator. Not the worst I've read, and far from the best.

Hard to beat the original, but pretty good.

It took a few chapters to get into it. But it is as good as you could ask a sequel to be. The performance was good. The same voice actor (I think) plus 1-2 others. Pretty good. I am about to try for the third (audio) book in the series.