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I don't understand why Hwi Noree slept with Duncan Idaho

Oh.. cool. The ending is great, but it's somewhat confusing until you really start thinking about it.

Did you get Heretics and Chapterhouse?
 
Dune and GEoD are my favourites in the series, tied for first and great for different reasons.
 
Dune is my favorite but I think Children of Dune might be my 2nd favorite.
 
I really liked Children of Dune for all the Preacher stuff and Leto being a freaky kid and Alia cackling manicly...Messiah was a bit short (I like EPIC) but I really dug the bit where Paul was looking out of Leto's eyes at the end...they've all been good so far, to be hoenst!
 
I liked it that the dude who played Duncan also played Francis 6 in Logan's Run.

I used to have them both on one tape and so I'd have a "whatever-that-guy-was-called" marathon. It was pretty rad.

Also Logan's Run rocks.
 
If you read the series over and over again like I do CAUSE I'M A FREAK, GEoD will begin to grow on you more. It has all these deep meanings that sort of begin to dawn on you after the 2nd or 3rd reading. The first time I read it I thought it was a tiny bit boring compared to the others.

I loved Children of Dune for the same reasons.. I thought the Preacher was cool, and Leto and Ghani were the freaky hope of the universe and I love St. Alia of the knife.
 
I've got Dune, Messiah and Children all in one vollume called "the Great Dune Trilogy". I love thick books.
 
Okay, now that I've finished it I feel quite sorry for Nayla...kills her own God, is sliced into little pieces by a lasgun (then the pieces are sliced into pieces!) and is branded as "Judas" by generations to come. Harsh!
 
It's hard to know how to feel about him, since he's thinking in a way and on a scale that no human can think. He didn't become the God Emporer for the power or because he's evil He does genuinely believe in his Golden Path and that what he's doing is for the greater good. BUT THEN SO DID HITLER?
 
Yeah, Nayla got the shafted in the historical aspect... but she got to live in the presence of her God. How'd you like the orgasmic climb? lol
 
Hitler didn't have the advantage of prescience to guide him. Leto was a tyrant.. and I find it hard to understand why he was so willing to become not-human for the benefit of mankind. I wonder if he felt the need for survival of the species on a different level than most humans. Maybe being drunk on time, the future and the past, gave him a heightened sense of humanity's importance. Leto is a hard nut to crack.

Can't wait till you read Heretics, Wacky. In some ways the last two books are not as good as the first four... but in other ways they are as good or better.
 
I suppose when you have the memories of every human to ever live and can see the future, three thousand years of tynrany doesn't seem like such a big deal.
 
Leto's in many ways the most human of all the characters in the series, perhaps in all of literature IMO. Ironic since he's physically an inhuman monster.

The last two books are interesting because in many ways they go more towards traditional scifi - space battles, battlecruisers, etc. Society also becomes a lot more like modern society (again). It's interesting to look at the universe throughout the books - in Dune, we're introduced to a feudal society, in Messiah the society's evolved into an absolutist empire, by GEoD the empire is hypotheocratic, and then a few thousand years later, we have essentially modern society except some 13000 years in the future. It's probably best demonstrated by how Giedi Prime has evolved since we see more of it than of any other planets (save Chapterhouse but that's a bit special) with Leto acting as something of a Christ figure.

Even though the last two books are my least favourite of the series, I still love them because of how wonderfully Herbert evolves his society and culture over the 5000+ years that the books cover.
 
He only has the memories of his genetic line plus any Reverend Mother who has shared with someone outside her genetic line.
 
Dual said:
Even though the last two books are my least favourite of the series, I still love them because of how wonderfully Herbert evolves his society and culture over the 5000+ years that the books cover.
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I feel the same about the last two books. They're not my favorites either, but they're still great. FH had some heavy ideas.. I'm still amazed by some of his concepts.
 
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