God Emperor of Dune--Book Review

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God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4). Frank Herbert. Ace Books. 1987.

Book review by Joel
Ok, this book gets truly weird where Leto son of Paul has merged with the sand trout and is slowly transforming into a worm--as in the great worms of Dune--and because of this, he has been alive for about 3,500 years and is the absolute dictating emperor of the Universe. His powers of prescience were even greater than Muad’dib’s and he transformed himself to put humankind on the “Golden Path”. He saw that if he didn’t sacrifice his own humanity and do this that all humans were on a course of extinction.

This book was longer than the first three but it had more character development and more psychological, religious, and societal messages built into the story. I loved this series--it was hard to put any of these books down. This one was no exception, as it continued to surprise with unexpected plot twists and fascinating characters. The recurring character of Duncan Idaho is still here as a ghola, or clone of the original taken from dead cells and grown in an axlotl tank. Like I said; weird.

I highly recommend reading these. They are great works of fiction.

Joel.

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