The Road to Dune
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0765312956 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0765312956 Global Overview for this book
1 journaler for this copy...
I am the sucker for special editions, deleted scenes, definitive editions, alternate endings, and all the like. I fall for junk DVD's filled with supposed killer extras that are really nothing more than filler that was cut out for a reason. And I feel for this Dune hodgepodge collection.
Brian Herbet and Kevin J. Anderson are intent at squeezing the most out of Frank Herbert's Dune. Six prequels into their literary necrophilia and we get this collection of notes and removed chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah. If you are a Dune fan then this merits a glacen at. Check it out from your local library or find it on BX. The deleted chapters aren't anything to freak out about. It would have been nice to see how Duncan Idaho died or how Gurney Halleck meet the spice miners, but instead we get chapters like "how Paul and Jessica" find the survival kit. The extra chapters are neat, but they never originally really helped the plot, and hence they were cut out. There are nice reflections on Dune, Frank Herbert, and the energies it took to create the book. The SUPER rough draft of Dune (entitled Spice Planet) is nothing but that...a rough draft. Names are changed and the whole plot is very expository. It is more of a writing experiment then mind-blowing diamond in the rough. That can be said of the whole book. Peace
Brian Herbet and Kevin J. Anderson are intent at squeezing the most out of Frank Herbert's Dune. Six prequels into their literary necrophilia and we get this collection of notes and removed chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah. If you are a Dune fan then this merits a glacen at. Check it out from your local library or find it on BX. The deleted chapters aren't anything to freak out about. It would have been nice to see how Duncan Idaho died or how Gurney Halleck meet the spice miners, but instead we get chapters like "how Paul and Jessica" find the survival kit. The extra chapters are neat, but they never originally really helped the plot, and hence they were cut out. There are nice reflections on Dune, Frank Herbert, and the energies it took to create the book. The SUPER rough draft of Dune (entitled Spice Planet) is nothing but that...a rough draft. Names are changed and the whole plot is very expository. It is more of a writing experiment then mind-blowing diamond in the rough. That can be said of the whole book. Peace
Journal Entry 2 by Gaeasoldier at Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg, New York USA on Friday, May 26, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (5/27/2006 UTC) at Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg, New York USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Will leave the book at the library's front entrance. Peace!
Will leave the book at the library's front entrance. Peace!