DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES / Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson / Book Review-Brian Lee Durfee-no spoilers

[@jonathankoan]

I love this trilogy, and I just finished reading it recently! Kevin Anderson’s style works for me, and I’m always excited to read another book by him.

[@wintersilla]

I just started House Atreides. It’s good to see that Brian is as talented as his father.

[@czcrossman]

Great review! I just finished listening to this book on Audible and as a MASSIVE fan of the original Frank Herbert Dune series I think these two guys did an incredible job of building on & adding to Brian’s father’s legendary series. Lots of really interesting political intrigue, lots of fun action & witty dialogue, and PLENTY of totally awesome moments in this book that absolutely dropped my jaw to the ground. My favorite of all the story lines was seeing Pardot exploring & understanding Arrakis better than any human had up to the time and his journey of becoming one of the Fremen & starting the process of leading them to the promised land that Paul & eventually Leto II would finish in later stories. All around great start to the prequel trilogy, I’m excited to start listening to the next one House Harkonnen during my commute tonight :)

[@Smlmusic2650]

I actually have these. I've held off on reading them because I always hear negativity regarding them but your review has changed my mind.

[@carenome1]

I loved these 3 books! Such a great lead into the actual series. Have you read the 3 pre-prequels?

[@Br1cht]

I also like the Nu-Dune series by Anderson, I higly doubt that the Herbert heir does much besides holds the rights though because they read like Anderson books 100%.

[@timmeyer9191]

I listened to the House trilogy on audiobook. It wasn't a bad prequel series, but not as memorable as I would have liked. Anderson is a very good writer, but this series doesn't have much repeat potential. Love the review by the way.

[@jasonvizcarra709]

I plan on reading some Dune for June and recently got this hardcover trilogy at a library sale. I might give this a shot along with Dune Messiah.

[@stephanievillanueva3622]

Just started reading this and agree with everything you said. Question: I’ve read Dune, Dune Messiah, am halfway through Children of Dune (was in a reading slump and paused it) and wanted to know if this book will spoil anything that I haven’t read about already?

[@justafidemyself]

I watched the two new Dune movies and loved them, but the ending to Part 2 was super abrupt. So i tried reading the original novel and to my surprise, it ended even more abruptly. I can't see why people think that first novel can stand on it's own. So I read Dune Messiah straight after that and that felt satisfying to me. It felt like I had a "complete" story of sort. Yeah it was confusing but I did manage to get through both of them. Then I read "Children of Dune" because I was still curious what would happen to some characters anf yeah... sort of wish I hadn"t done so. It was so philosophical and dense that I had to pause reading and search some Wiki pages for more info. So I think I"m good for now with stopping there in the saga. However I felt kinda lost this week without being in the Dune universe after reading 3 books back to back 😂 So I picked these up. I knew people absolutely hate the prequels or whatever but I'm loving them so far. They are way less challenging to read, and yeah, maybe not "literature" perse like his dad works. But it reads so smooth that it is a breath of fresh air to explore the Dune universe ane actually understand the plot for once. It's a comfort reading about Leto, Duncan, Kynes and the Baron once more like old friends.

[@YouBdg-qm1qi]

In french , please❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jamesnoriega4698]

Dang I really gotta read this

[@Popeye-xk5si]

Always liked these prequels. Thx Brian 👍🏻💪🏻

[@EricMcLuen]

I also enjoyed the prequel books. They aren't part of Frank's story arc and don't think they were meant to be. The backstories were fascinating. Erickson Esslemont's shared world might be a better example. That being said, I would treat Hunters and Sandowrms differently. Will reread them all at some point, need momentum for GEoD, but Chapterhouse and Heretics just got so weird not sure how I would even have felt if Frank were able to finish.

[@eriknelson9032]

I loved that book

[@princegoro6840]

I’ve enjoyed all the BH/KJA Dune books except maybe Hunters of Dune. The Butlerian Jihad and Schools of Dune trilogies were exceptional.

[@jamesnoriega4698]

Here I am, here I remain