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Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
- Dune: Legends of Dune, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 23 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters.
It began in the Time of Tyrants, when ambitious men and women used high-powered computers to seize control of the heart of the Old Empire including Earth itself. The tyrants translated their brains into mobile mechanical bodies and created a new race, the immortal man-machine hybrids called cymeks. Then the cymeks' world-controlling planetary computers - each known as Omnius - seized control from their overlords and 1,000 years of brutal rule by the thinking machines began. But their world faces disaster. Impatient with human beings' endless disobedience and the cymeks' continual plotting to regain their power, Omnius has decided that it no longer needs them. Only victory can save the human race from extermination.
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"Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of the continuation of his vision." (Dean Koontz)
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- Martin
- 16-12-21
Great story, annoying background music!
Loved the story, (read the paperbacks) but audio ruined by constant intrusion of loud music.
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- Sober Man's Secret
- 29-03-22
Fantastic tale ruined by terrible narration
Fantastic tale ruined by terrible narration. Ive read this series and loved it. The narrator makes this an incredibly tedious experience. It's read but it has no life to it.
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- Miff95
- 05-04-23
Fantasy fantastic
I’ve read this book a few times over the years and it’s always surprised me. Now the audiobook version has taken it to another level. It’s superb. A lot of reviews complain about the musical interludes but they don’t make any difference in my opinion.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-01-23
Decent backstory to the events of Dune.
Having read this book when it was first published I was looking forward to listening to it as the narrator had done a good job with House Atreides etc. Here again the performance is good, let down only by his attempt at a Scottish or Irish accent for Iblis Ginjo, he really should have quit after his awful attempt with Gurney Halleck previously. One personal gripe is that the background "mood" sounds between chapters should be removed.
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- Andras Kovacs
- 28-03-22
Better than the original Dune
I enjoyed this a lot. The original Dune series has a really interesting universe but this book really shows it better
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- Ashley Glynne
- 17-12-21
Much better than I expected
I really enjoyed this and although I'd recommend reading the original Dune novel first I actually think it stands up well in its own right or if you wanted to read the books chronologically. left me excited to read the next one.
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- Dr
- 03-12-23
Mills and Boons in space
As a fan of the dune universe I was very disappointed with this. I love the originals. I thought the "house" trilogy by these two was ok. I also really liked the two books that finished the original series off- and in light of this believe they really did find some of Frank's notes to help them. this book I have up on. it really is trashy romantic novel territory. I drags on. there are some good ideas and if they had made one volume and cut the terrible romance stuff then it may have been ok. really just awful.
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- Daniel Lee
- 24-12-21
Just excellent!!
Scott Brick is easily the best narrator, I can’t imagine anyone else doing it. This book is just unadulterated excellence. I’m a huge fan of the dune series as a whole, and I can’t recommend this more!! Enjoy!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-12-21
A stellar expansion to Dune
An amazing story of titanic struggle, deception, galactic warfare and deep cruelty masked as curiosity, the first installment of this trilogy left me instantly jumping to the next book.
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- Keith
- 16-03-24
Understanding of AI
thi was written before Star Wars which makes it a more tantalising tale of undering
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