3.5⭐️

Herbert lost me on this one. I still will finish the series just to see how things play out, but if they continue in the same direction, I'll be miserable reading it.
There are so many things I just did not understand. Main ones being  Duncan and the Golden Path.
The whole Duncan thing feels absolutely atrocious to me. They use him as a puppet over and over and over again. He's not his own person any more. I feel so sorry for him both as an adult woken up to a whole life that happened eons ago and as a child raised like a kettle and woken up not just to one previous life, but all of them. What's worse, I still don't see the point in all that. All these breeding eugenics stopped making sense for me a long time ago.
Since the Golden Path was first mentioned, I was wondering what it really means. I got the (an?) answer at the very end of Heretics: What was his Golden Path but a vision of sexual forces at work recreating humankind endlessly? . Seriously? That felt like a real downer to me. Without raising sex into a status of maniac religion the humanity wouldn't survive? Or am I missing something?
The other thing that bugged me a bit in the previous book and a lot in this one is technology.
Dune - ships, 'thopters, cars, suspensors.
Emperor of Dune, 3,500 years later - no-ships, 'thopters, cars, bigger suspensors.
Heretics of Dune, 10,000 years later - no-ships, 'thopters, cars, holographic menus.
How though? The planet goes through basically a complete terraformation twice, but technology stays basically the same?
And don't even get me started on the vaginal pulsing stuff?

Buddy read with Athena!

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

The tyrant God Emperor has returned to the sands of Dune. The universe that was once ruled by Houses Corrino and Atreides have fallen into chaos and is controlled by dozens of bickering factions. The Bene Gesserit and the Tleilaxu struggle for power, but their ambitions are contested by billions of humans returning from the Scattering. But on the surface of Dune, a small girl might be able to break the balance when she finds that she is able to control the mighty sandworms themselves.

Heretics of Dune is a giant improvement from the last book in the series, God Emperor of Dune. There are more characters, more hidden motives and overall a more interesting storyline. Still, there is much separating even this book from the three brilliant masterpieces of the Great Dune Trilogy. The epic feel is still gone, old boring characters are recycled, and even Frank Herbert's impressive pieces of social criticism are fewer and far between than they once were.

While I enjoyed reading this book, I demand more from this series. What it needs is a breath of fresh air, and I don't know if Herbert was capable of providing that. But Dune is still one of my favourite series of all time, and my aim to read everything still stands.

To be honest, I finished reading this part, overpowering my “I don’t want”, I put the squeeze on just for show, tormented yourself, so to speak. Perhaps, if I had not had only one book left before the end of the cycle, then with a probability of 99% I would have abandoned the series.

If the fourth part still somehow liked me, but disappointed because of the high expectations I had too high, then the fifth is just some kind of unreasonably long book that pours everything from empty to empty, and is focused on the study of sexual acts, but at the same time, "Heretics of Dune" often tries to convince the reader that this is a serious matter, because the characters with pathos already familiar from previous books talk about how important it is to own an empire through bed.

While reading, I rolled my eyes so often that I lost count. Everything described is kind of surreal, and only the parts with Duncan and Sheeana gave me a tiny incentive to finish this book.

The worst part of Dune Chronicles has been found, and I can only cross my fists and hope that the sixth volume will at least slightly improve the whole situation, without leaving me bitter disappointment in the end, because I love the first trilogy immensely, and sincerely do not want to say goodbye to this world on such a false note.

Reading is at your own risk. There is little interesting here, and if we are really serious, then purely out of curiosity, you can only read the epigraphs to the chapters and the chapters themselves where Duncan appears. The grandfather drags the corpse of this unhappily, but on the example of this miracle it is not in vain - he is the only one here who develops curious problems.

Chyba najbardziej „filmowa” część. Oficjalnie moja ulubiona zaraz po „Diunie” i „Dzieciach Diuny”. Trochę się boję, że będę płakać z powodu braku zamknięcia serii, gdy już przeczytam „Kapitularz Diuną”.

Heretics of Dune (Dune #5), Frank Herbert

Much has changed in the millennium and a half since the death of the God Emperor. Sandworms have reappeared on Arrakis (now called Rakis), each containing a fragment of the God Emperor's consciousness, and have renewed the flow of the all-important spice melange to the galaxy. With Leto's death, a very complex economic system built on spice collapsed, resulting in trillions of people leaving known space in a great Scattering. A new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships (The technology in the Dune universe) are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection; the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks (The technology in the Dune universe) and have created a new breed of Face Dancers; and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities. However, people from the Scattering are returning with their own peculiar powers. The most powerful of these forces are the Honored Matres, a violent society of women bred and trained for combat and the sexual control of men.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و یکم ماه فوریه سال 2019 میلادی
عنوان: بدعتگذار تلماسه؛ نویسنده: فرانک هربرت؛
ا. شربیانی

What was the point of this omfg

Dievas kurdamas savo maketą turėjo galvoj mažiau info nei ponas Herbert. Ir dievo vizija, duotam pirminiam gamybiniam etape, dar kitaip Version 1.0, įtraukė mažiau savaiminio vystymosi matricų ir komplikuotus santykius turinčių organizacinių gardelių, nei rašytojo sukūrusio šią milijardus pasaulių, milijardų milijardus gyvybių ir begalybes idėjų vienijančią visumą. Man labai patinka ši futuristinė filosofinė pasaka, kuri duokdieve kadanors bus mūsų ateitis. #LEBooks #Recom #HereticOfDune #Dune #FrankHerbert

Ottimo anche questo volume! Anche qui Herbert non si smentisce per la sua bravura nella narrazione e nei personaggi.
E ora il finale....

After three tries, I finally managed to finish this book lol. Definitely not as good to the first four by any means, but it was still enjoyable. I think the ending was truly the hardest part to finish. Gonna wait awhile before I go on to Chapterhouse. I did really like Darwi and Taraza in this book, they were the most interesting characters.

Żałuję, że słuchałem jej w audio... Mam wrażenie, że przez to sporo mi umknęło. Jednakże nadal ją doceniam. Jednym z gorszych rozwiązań jest cały wątek tworzenia z "ludzi" maszyn seksu. Nie wiem jak to inaczej nazwać. Nie podoba mi się ten zabieg, jednakże rozumiem jego podstawy i fakt, że seksualność jest w stanie zabić umysł. Z takim zamiarem jest właśnie ona używana w tym tomie.

Rzekłbym, że średnio na jeża.

Ocena: 3,0.

Próbowałem sobie streścić fabułę w tym wpisie, ale brzmiało to bardziej jak wstęp do filmu dla dorosłych, niż jak epicka historia sci-fi. Jest jak jest.

Linkerson for filmson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0sPw...