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The Heaven Makers

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Immortal aliens have observed Earth forcenturies, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrifichuman activities - all to relieve their endless boredom. When they finally becomejaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they find ways to create theirown disasters, just to amuse themselves.

But interfering with human activities isforbidden, and the authorities have been known to check on these matters fromtime to time. However, by the time Investigator Kelexel arrives to investigate,the trouble has been going on for a long, long time - and things are reallygetting out of hand.

©2011 Frank Hebert (P)2014 Blackstone Audio Fiction Science Fiction

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From Frank Herbert I expect a fascinating story and this book delivers. I find it prompting questions and considerations that I might seldom or never spend much time on.

Sadly, the reader leaves quite a lot to be desired. The reading is very slow and dull. Only the quality of the story managed to keep me going. I wonder how much better this could be in the hands of a better reader.

Great story let down by mediocre reading

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None of the characters were sufficiently well developed for me to feel any emotional interest in them. Story is an interesting idea but there was no pacing or drama. I’m a huge fan of the authors dune books (except god emperor) and some of his other works too but this falls well below his usual level. One to miss unless you want to waste 10 hours of your life.

More like purgatory than heaven

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Dragged out and boring (in my opinion). The author has much better books, but this one isn't too great.

meh...

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I had to really persevere with this audiobook, I have a 30-40 minute commute so rattle through books reasonable quickly but, it was a real trudge to get through it. when I discovered the book was written over 50yrs ago, it made more sense, but numerous times I could have put it down.

The story itself, is of it's time, but still interesting, The narration was my biggest dislike of this particular book. The Dune books can often be confusing as to who is actually talking (due to a mix of narration and cast production) but this was another level, not enough difference in character voices to make it easy to follow.. lose concentration for 10 seconds at a set of lights and you can easily not notice that the chapter is a new and you're listening to a totally different character, then having to rewind to catch up. If in a thoughtful / day-dreamy mood, do not listen to the book, you need to sit and put your concentration head on!!

A bit of a struggle!

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This book was amazingly written, very entertaining. Not sure on the ending but everything else was spot on.

Entertaining

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