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Chapterhouse Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Simon Vance
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Summary

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.

Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.

Don't miss other titles in the Dune series.
©1985 Frank Herbert (P)2009 Macmillan Audio

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"Compelling...A worthy addition to this durable and deservedly popular series." ( The New York Times)

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Compelling Socio-Political fantasy drama

Dune was a magnificent book; but it pales in comparison with the final two books in the Frank Herbert timeline - Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune.

These two books stand together and follow on one from the other. The story focuses around the struggle of the Bene Gesserit (post Dune), the race to establish a supply of melange and a new threat that has merged from the scattering.

The best part about these books is the ingenious social insight that Frank Herbert displayed as he explored principles of power, control, and minority rule. He teaches through the story also - principles of a supply and demand economy, different political and social structures, ecology....

The Saga could not have finished in a finer way. The Author's family should be very proud of this accomplishment because it is far more than a compelling story.

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Truly awful narrators

The narrator of previous dune audio books in the series is good, but the ones that are new to this book are truly awful. They seem to feel the need to say everything with high energy which becomes truly grating very quickly.

I often find myself skipping forward just because I can bear to listen to a particular narrator any longer.

On top of that, no one has bothered to get the different narrators to be consistent with pronunciation of names which is very irritating.

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The Worst Abortion of Frank Herbert’s final book

The voice actors could have made an effort to try to pronounce the names of importance to the story. The producers have truly let down the author when they cannot even organise their voice actors to have a narrative that is intelligible to the listener without wondering how many ways the word Honoured Matres Mattress Maders and I don’t know what else.

This and the names of the main characters destroyed it for me. No effort in production very very sloppy.

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Awful women narrators

Love the series but once again those awful women narrators appear. Ruins the book especially with the different way they all pronounce words

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Vance is a treasure - a shame about the others

Fantastic book marred by constant switching between narrators with vastly different performances. Simon Vance is excellent and gives everything a real sense of gravitas - it's a shame this is ruined by other narrators with weird intonation. Would also have been nice if they could collectively agree in advance how to pronounce certain words and names.

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The complete Saga review

In short
(the first trilogy)
Book 1: Excellent
Book 2: Great
Book 3: Good

(the second trilogy)
Book 4: Boring rumbling
Book 5: Good
Book 6: Mediocre (with the main theme that the strongest weapon in the GALAXY is between the woman leg... No joke)

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Worth a revisit

Having read the Dune series years ago I wanted to re-visit my favorite book, Chapterhouse. This installment focuses on the Bene Gesserit with all their political scheming. The multiple narrators really helps make this audio book version come to life. Overall I was not disappointed.

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A Underwhelming (False) Finale

While it's true that Chapterhouse wasn't intended to be the final book in the main Dune series, Frank Herbert's unfortunate passing has cemented it as such. However, regardless of outside circumstances, Chapterhouse Dune was a continuance of the dull meandering that made Heretics such a bore.

Books 1-3 were centred around incredible, high-concept sci-fi superpowers and the horrific consequences thereof. The interplay between characters was informed by these ideas. Having killed off all of the interesting protagonists, books 5 and 6 form a weird soft reboot without those powerful themes. Instead, we see fairly mundane characters (in relation to the dark messiahs that preceded them) who fumble about fighting an adversary that is of no particular interest.

The Honored Matres are barely distinguishable from the Bene Gesserit, except in the petty terms of the latter, making it difficult to care about the conflict between the two. The ending of Chapterhouse almost seems to acknowledge this in an underwhelming finale.

Again, Duncan is an incredibly boring protagonist, Teg is barely any better, and the rest of the cast are barely distinguishable from one another.

Ultimately, Heretics and Chapterhouse feel like an effort to stall for time while the author tried to think up some kind of grand conclusion that might tie the disparate threads together. In practice, things just grew messier and messier and we're left with a soft reboot that may as well have been another franchise altogether for all that it contributes to the overall mythos.

That said, Dune will be remembered for an incredible first book with some strong follow-ups and while it did fizzle out in these final two books, Frank Herbert's Dune books will always stand as one of the greatest series ever written.

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Decent enough story, but very dragging compared to the first 4 Dune books.
Good performance, although the different pronunciations of words and names by the different actors is EXTREMELY distracting

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Sluggish and the story jumps

Herbert can write some amazing fiction and this book has elements of that. unfortunately it is somewhat turgid in places and the pace is off. The end is rushed and really let's it down. Accents are mixed in effectiveness for me and can detract further from the enjoyment. Overall not the best Herbert experience.

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