But now that they are available on Audio I thought I would give it a try. I just wasn't motivated enough to undertake reading all six books. Over the intervening years I kept hearing high praise for the rest of the series. Not quite equal to Odrade's meal with Streggy.īack in the day I read the original DUNE and then followed with DUNE MESSIAH and CHILDREN OF DUNE, but then I stopped because I didn't like the direction the series was going.

At times above but only rarely equals the text- where a professional reading can provide the listener a special and carefully nuanced interpretation, the present work is adequate.

But Chapterhouse is the most revealing and by far the best. My appreciation of the texts Herbert's Dune is here indicated. Odrade's handling of her sisters is signal, and Herbert's writing provides sufficient gap for the careful and attentive reader to begin to guess where odrade is located and what she will do 'next'. She is the keystone of Herbert's written narrative image, love and deep respect of powerful womanhood. Some readers convey their character with excellence- Lucilla's discourse with the weak chinned Honoured Matre, and subsequent overplay is represented well. The readers/speakers are skilled, use and inflect their voice with skill, demonstrate awareness of the different nature of voices within the character over time and within the character in respect of emphasis. The reading performance is above adequate. In this reading performance there is sympathy with the dense content, nuance. The text of course exists independent of the reader though the two cannot be separated.

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