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A review by laviskrg
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
3.0
To be honest, I did not enjoy this book. Everyone is perfect, everything is "seen" in Paul's head but he can't really do shit about stuff cos it's meant to happen, bla bla. Alia is perfect and talks nothing but nonsense and of course the great oracle is weakened by feminine weakness in the presence of a dude. The bad guys are just bad and of course, extremely weak and failing. The story is boring, over-written for not much action. I think I am not meant to enjoy literature classified as classic.
World-building - non-existent
Epic events that changed everything - these happened BETWEEN the second cover of Dune and the first cover of Dune Messiah, as off-screen as it can be, and this is just such a lazy, unacceptable writing style
Characters are flawless, unique snowflakes, and the author tries to make them the victims of human emotions when in fact they are EMPTY and devoid of any genuine feeling
The action can be summed up in 20 pages but 300 were needed for empty, pointless faux-religious saga bullshit
There is a whole lot of dialogue (which actually saved me from throwing the book on the other side of the room cos the narration and the description are so tedious to read) which, in the absence of "he said" or "she said" would be without voice, gender, social status, dialect, etc.
This book, like the entire series has amazing concepts and gloriously original ideas, especially considering when it was written, but for me, this kind of literature simply does not carry well over the decades. Literature has evolved. Tropes have been studied and categorized. Cliches are tiresome to me and I pity the ones who praise classic lit to no end but refuse to acknowledge the flaws in it.
World-building - non-existent
Epic events that changed everything - these happened BETWEEN the second cover of Dune and the first cover of Dune Messiah, as off-screen as it can be, and this is just such a lazy, unacceptable writing style
Characters are flawless, unique snowflakes, and the author tries to make them the victims of human emotions when in fact they are EMPTY and devoid of any genuine feeling
The action can be summed up in 20 pages but 300 were needed for empty, pointless faux-religious saga bullshit
There is a whole lot of dialogue (which actually saved me from throwing the book on the other side of the room cos the narration and the description are so tedious to read) which, in the absence of "he said" or "she said" would be without voice, gender, social status, dialect, etc.
This book, like the entire series has amazing concepts and gloriously original ideas, especially considering when it was written, but for me, this kind of literature simply does not carry well over the decades. Literature has evolved. Tropes have been studied and categorized. Cliches are tiresome to me and I pity the ones who praise classic lit to no end but refuse to acknowledge the flaws in it.