Paul of Dune

Book One of the Heroes of Dune

By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Paul of Dune is a sci-fi adventure novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget. "Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show. Brick's voice is ideally suited to this extraordinary tale; no doubt he studied the prose of each novel to capture the dialect perfectly. This is a superb, solid reading that will appeal to fans and newcomers alike." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Frank Herbert's Dune ended with Paul Muad'Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert's next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul's armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times best-selling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions in Paul of Dune.

The Muad'Dib's jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies - those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands...

And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?

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good continued story of Paul.

loved it. little slow at the start but get past the first review and it will wrap you into the story all over again.

excellent

Fascinating continuation of the saga. Well worth the time. Looking forward to the next book.

perfectly fine filler....but not essential

perfectly fine filler....but not essential to the over all story. As a fan of Dune, I enjoyed it.

awesome

the book dune and Paul of dune along with all the other books are great. takes you to another place.

Fun

It contradicts Dune in multiple places but it wasn’t terrible. I could have done without the Young Paul adventures but filling in the gaps with Mauid’Dib’s Jihad was interesting.

Great!

This picks up right where the new movie leaves off. Interesting conclusion. All the familiar characters.

Checked it off the long list

Coming off the great, gamboling romp through Dune histories (butlerian jihad, atreides/harkonnen feud, the birth of CHOAM, first mentats, bene gesserit, and navigators, etc.) this felt downright sleepy. But it was good to get a glimpse of the years between his becoming emperor and the birth of the twins. While it seems to bother some of the Frank Herbert purists, I like the fact that B. Herbert/Anderson's stories are a bit easier to digest. Frank set up a huge universe of possibilities, and I look forward to every new plot line, backstory, intrigue, and the barely-contained chaos that they dream up.

Good but could of been better

Could of been better, the flash backs to Paul's child hood would of been better left for the book on that house.

Just not as engaging

This book was just not well written or as engaging as the others in the Prequel series or certainly not as Dune itself. It closed some loops, but not in a natural or quite believable way.

More Dune

It was entertaining and interesting history. Wish narrator had some voice support like Dune had.