https://twitter.com/mr_james_c/status/1764223381337931788

  • hungrybread [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Going from book 3 to 4 is a fun and wild jump, although I don't recall reading much past 4 if at all. Might be time for a re-read, haven't read past book 2 since high school.

    How is the series after book 4?

      • GorGor@startrek.website
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        9 months ago

        I wouldn't go that far. Heretics and Chapter-house are... not great, but they are nowhere near as bad as Kevin J Anderson's crap writing.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      It's not as good, because Frank was getting on in years at that point and it doesn't have a payoff like the first three books had with God Emperor; he died before writing the final book, so it kind of builds up to nothing. To be honest I doubt this 7th book would have been nearly as good as God Emperor anyways, so maybe it's for the best this way.

      • hungrybread [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        That was kind of the impression I got. I did briefly try to read one of his son's dune books and just couldn't get into it

        • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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          9 months ago

          Yeah it's very unfortunate. Instead of a whole universe of spinoff and fan interpretations etc etc, we have one trash official fanfic

          Fuckin copyright

    • D61 [any]
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      9 months ago

      Really really bad.

      Maybe not really really bad... but if you stopped you'd be missing nothing.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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        9 months ago

        as long as you don't read the books after he died, books 1-6, you're fine. Unless you can't stand unfinished stories, then pretend that the series ended with book 4, look no further or suffer

        • D61 [any]
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          9 months ago

          I've gotten through a chunk of them after the forth book and ... woof... I had to stop the self abuse.

          • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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            9 months ago

            Yeah I got to the last chapter of book 8 and I was like, why the fuck am I doing this to myself and stopped reading halfway through 5he final climax lol