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on Sun, 23 Sep 2007
17:01:26 GMT, Wild Monkshood <wild_monkshood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bran Mak Muffin wrote:
>> When I think of Frank's books, I scratch my head in wonderment. When
>> I think of Brevin's books, I smack my head in amazement.
> I smack my head into an abutment. :)
Every time I re-read FH's, I see something new. I suppose that might
happen with BH/KA's, but I'm as unlikely to re-read any of theirs as I am
to read The Elder Edda in Icelandic.
> I finally got Sandworms o' Dune from the Library.
Smart. Very smart.
> As a continuation of
> such a Masterful series of novels by Frank Herbert, it hardly p*****
> muster.
It hardly p***** gas.
> However, if it were stand alone Young Adult Science Fiction,
> it would be comparable to 80-90% of mindless books written for hormone
> ravaged teens. However, as a pretender to FH's Throne, it comes across
> as juvenile and lackluster. It is not hard to read and has some
> interesting aspects. I might actually finish it
I would finish it, if you've started. It's not *that* long.
> depending on time
> constraints and if the op****tunity to watch paint dry does not present
> itself.
I gave my main critique elsewhere, but I must add that it is not as good
as "Hunters."
All in all, "Hunters" is the best of a bad lot, IMO.
I find it rather perverse (on my own part, and it perhaps applies to
others) that I have read all the BH/KA books, then got on this NG to
complain how lousy they were, then went ahead and read the next one. I
suppose "hope springs eternal" sums it up the best.
But I can never tire of beating this dead horse: the "Legends" trilogy
sucks such montrously big wind that it cannot be rendered in any human
language, not even a language where sucking wind is as im****tant to the
culture as ice and snow are to the Inuit culture.
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