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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Anyway, the badness of Dune Messiah has obviously been mis-ascribed. It was a terrible book, plain and simple... nothing at all to do with it being a middle-of-the-trilogy (infinite-ology). See Empire Strikes Back as proof that that's no excuse.
I have never been able to understand Herbert. He wrote one absolutely astounding work of science fiction. And every single follow-up, including Children of Doom, was not just bad, but absolutely horrible. How did he do that? (I'm even more shocked to hear that Messiah and Children were part of Dune originally.... I find that super hard to believe because the quality drops off so heavily.)
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I'm 50 years old and to this day Dune Messiah was the only fiction book that I started but didn't finish. I read Dune so far back I only remember that I found it an excellent book, quite enjoyable. Nothing constructive is left in my memory as to why I couldn't contine reading Dune Messiah, just a feeling that it had been dragging on...
As it stands now I don't think I'll be revisiting this series anytime soon.