Re: Dune 2

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:39:04 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 3/17/24 2:36 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:40:10 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

In my very humble opinion, you didn't miss much. A million years ago
here in rasfw, I mentioned Heretics of Dune (aka My Own Private Duncan
Idaho) as the worst SFF "turkey" I had finished reading. For the life of
me, I don't know why I then went on to read Chapterhouse: Dune, but I
did, and it was not much better. At this remove, I don't remember a
whole lot of either one - my sense is that they weren't "throw at the
wall" bad, but they were really disappointing.
>

Is that one of those "Dune" books written by Herbert's son and a ghost
writer?

>
No - Or at least, Frank Herbert passed away in 1986, and Heretics of
Dune & Chapterhouse: Dune were published in 1984 & 1985 respectively.
Chapterhouse was the last Dune novel I ever read - and it is very likely
to remain so.

I would have liked to learn more about the Honored Matres, but my
general policy is to /not/ continue with series once the auther ceases
to be the author. Co-author or new author, it generally not matter.

There are exceptions: James Bond, one Holmes, finished novels
published after the author died (quite a few for PK Dick, since he
couldn't get anyone to publish them while he was alive).
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"