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The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.
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The story just gets stranger and stranger. I think I'm done reading the Dune series now lol
Herbert's notoriously weak prose is really grating here because Children of Dune lacks the same propulsive action-adventure of the first two Dune books. The grand scale of the Dune universe is still here, but it is ultimately a slog to get through, in large part due to the uninteresting mystery surrounding the central characters
The story just gets stranger and stranger. I think I'm done reading the Dune series now lol
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