È finito il viaggio di una saga fantastica. È stato lungo ma mai stancante. Herbert in tutti e sei i libri non si ripete mai. Quello che mi ha stupito è stata la bravura di creare continuamente nuove cose. Ovviamente abbiamo un filo conduttore che unisce il tutto ma Herbert riesce a creare delle sottotrame che servono a catturare la curiosità del lettore e lo spingono ad andare avanti. Non era una cosa facile. Può succedere in un lungo viaggio di smarrire o di non sviluppare bene delle idee. Non a lui. È tutto minuziosamente tenuto sotto controllo. I volumi più belli sono stati il terzo e il sesto.
Nel terzo ho trovato una bravura eccezionale nello sviluppare i dialoghi.
Il sesto fornisce molte spiegazioni che stiamo cercando dall' inizio della storia e quindi mi ha catturato per arrivare a delle risposte.
Ma anche nelle risposte finali Herbert non è scontato e non spiega realmente tutto lasciando così al lettore il tempo per un'accurata riflessione. Più che una spiegazione reale fornisce elementi per poter arrivare alla conclusione. Nelle recensioni precedenti avevo già sottolineato come la storia fosse un puzzle che vada ricomposto. Solo nel sesto quindi troveremo realmente tutti i tasselli che creano l'universo di Dune. Tutte le domande che ci siamo poste e i dubbi che abbiamo avuto troveranno un'unica grande spiegazione.
Herbert non usa mai i colpi di scena, si prende il suo tempo e piano piano ci conduce al finale ma quasi alla fine del viaggio sgancia le due bombe che capovolgono il tutto. Da quel momento alcune cose saranno più chiare e altre verranno invece stravolte. Bisogna di nuovo rimboccarsi le maniche per capire cosa succede in questo grande universo. È proprio questo dinamismo che rende l'opera unica.
Ci imbarchiamo in una storia troppo movimentata creata da una mente folle e geniale! L'intera saga merita 5 stelle.
Ci sarebbe questo ed altro da dire su Dune, potrei non finire mai.
Leggetelo!

Senza infamia e senza lode. Il solito mix, ma servito meglio del solito. I personaggi sono meglio sviluppati del precedente volume (di cui continuano la storia), ma siamo temporalmente troppo lontani dal Dune originale e non si respira l'atmosfera avvincente dei primi volumi del ciclo. Comunque, la storia scorre bene. Finale a sorpresa, a cui probabilmente dovevano seguire altri volumi. Ci ha pensato il figlio a finire il tutto.

Bought as a gift . Arrived in good condition.

This was a gift.  It was well received, just what he wanted.  Arrived very quickly on time for a birthday.

Comparatively speaking, I would rank this book very close to the first
Dune novel in the series.  It has a huge (and I do mean HUGE) build up
from the beginning of the novel until about fifty pages from the end
when Herbert dumps the proverbial soup into our laps.  But there are
many questions left unanswered at the end (not that all questions
SHOULD be answered but I felt that a sequel was sure to come had Frank
Herbert not passed away before he could finish the series).  I've
heard that Brian Herbert, Frank's son, discovered a seventh Dune
manuscript in a safety deposit box after his father died.  If this is
true, I can't wait to see it in print.  If it's not true, then we may
never know what the 'master' had in mind.
But enough of
that...onto the book itself!
The story is that of the Bene Geserit
sisterhood and their war against the wicked 'Honored Matres' who've
returned from the scattering and has threatened to wipe out all of the
BG sisterhood.  Meanwhile, the BG's are turning Chapterhouse --- their
last sisterhood stronghold planet --- into a desert planet and
bringing back the worms of Dune to this planet in hopes of starting a
new cycle of sandtrout/worm/spice/sandtrout, again.  Strong in this
story is that of Duncan Idaho and Murbella, the captured Honored Matre
from the fifth Dune book.  They are [multiplying] like rabbits still in
their no-ship prison and the BG sisterhood takes away the babies
hoping to find genetic markers that they haven't seen before
(continuing on in their quest for a perfect human).  Also at the
forefront is that of Odrade, the Mother Superior of the BG, who sees
where their paths with the Honored Matres must lead.  It is a giant
melting pot that began with Leto II's rule (the God Emperor or the
Tyrant if you prefer).  The BG and the Honored Matres must become one
sisterhood for them both to survive.  Odrade sees this and passes her
sisterhoods internal lifetimes on to Murbella after completing her
training and watching her go through the spice agony.
In the end,
the melting pot is achieved thanks to Odrade's manipulations and
Murbella's Honored Matre's training.  But there's a lot left out to
indicate that more would have been forthcoming had Herbert not died.
Duncan, Sheeana, Scytale, the Rabbi, and a wild-reverend mother,
escape in the no-ship and head off into the unknown; even they don't
know exactly where they end up.  And, it appears, the gods don't know
why this was done or where they will end up.
Questions: Who was
chasing the Honored Matre's?  Who were the handlers of the Futars and
where did Futars originate from?  Will Chapterhouse become another
Dune world?  Did Duncan and his runaway band in the no-ship take a
worm?  If so, what will they do with it?  What will happen to the
Guild now that Chapterhouse is turning into a Dune world?
Many
questions...will there be answers.  We'll just have to wait and see, I
guess.

O livro corresponde à descrição e chegou bem acondicionado.

You read what came before so what are you gonna do?

I wouldn't say much about the Dune storyline, and this is not my review of it rather just wanted to post photos of the book cause so many buyers like me look for the physical book photos (of how it looks). So I hope this would help them. The binding is very good, smooth and relaxed, convenient for power reading.

Short Opinion about DUNE:
So, the more you read the Dune books the more you realize that it's not just a Sci-fi epic but it's deep philosophy that Frank Herbert wrote, every page is full of it, and of course with dosages of an epic science fiction saga as well.

Although at times very difficult to read and keep focus. So I would suggest anyone, to read at a steady pace and take more breaks. Right now there's so many YT channels about DUNE explanation and story summaries, so watching them also helps a lot.

Cheers!

Excellent chapter in an excellent series of books. The amazing continuity in the entire, 6 book series as it spans vast millennia is wonderful. I consider this series to represent a perfect melding of sci-fi & fantasy, with technology as well as sword wielding, feudal societies, and mystical powers. Plots & conspiracy that have been adhered to and advanced over those millennia, The Bene Tlielax, purveyors and creators of fantastic and forbidden technologies and secret practitioners of a supposedly extinct religion, the Bene Gesserit(sp?) (witches, to some) a society of Women who outwardly exist only to serve, and they do serve well, often enriching those they serve, but with, some would say dark ulterior motives, at the center of which is their ancient breeding program whereby they seek to control the evolution of the whole human race. Women so in tune and in touch with their minds, musculature & nervous systems as to appear to be possessing mystical powers such as Voice the ability to read another so well that one can pitch their voice in just the right tone so as to force compliance on a subject with a word, Truthsense, the ability to read falsehood in almost anyone, genetic memories spanning thousands of generations, passed on from Reverend-mothers about to die with another adept to preserve the combined wisdom and knowledge acquired through the ages. The ability to be relaxing, to be slouching in a chair one instant and be across the room holding your larynx ripped from your bleeding throat quicker than you can blink. There are body shields and house shiields, that stop projectiles making guns all but obsolete, hence the swords. V-STOL aircraft called ornithopters (for their birdlike wings) or thopters for short. The Spacing Guild with their monopoly on inter-stellar travel which they hold in an iron grip. Sword masters who are adept with a wide array of weapons and lightning reflexes and minds that come closer to the Bene Gesserit than almost any others. Mentats, human computers to skirt the ancient laws spawned by the Butlerian Jihad outlawing most "technology" but most especially "thinking machines." and at the heart of it all, The Spice, "Melange" produced once only by the giant sand-worms (the holy makers, Shai-hulud) of Arrakis (Dune). the substance that prolongs life, that sharpens physical and mental prowess, that grants the Spacing Guild navigator their ability to "fold space" to achieve faster than light speed travel, that gives prescient abilities to the Bene Gesserit and to Paul Muad Dib and his descendants,and is highly addictive with the most apparentsymptom being the entire eyeball turning blue, the pupil, the irisand the white. A vast rich universe of adventure. I highly recommend the entire six book series.