A review of House Harkonnen..."a Dune for the simple minded."
http://www.starport.com/sciencefiction/books/dune_harkonnen_000928.html
Prequel Review
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The whole thing would be laughable if it were not Dune, one of the greatest (and most beloved) works of cultural, political and historic extrapolation of our time -- and if Herbert and Anderson hadn’t been paid a million dollars to give it to us.
Sadly, this is Dune, and that million dollars could have paid the advances of a hundred new authors with something original to say.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
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Someone shoot that boy an e-mail and welcome him here.
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That was awesome!
I'm sure he's just a "hater," though. I mean, everyone knows that not liking Anderhack's work makes you a hater. Kevin said so.

I'm sure he's just a "hater," though. I mean, everyone knows that not liking Anderhack's work makes you a hater. Kevin said so.
"Anything I write will be remembered and listed in bibliographies on Dune for several hundred years ..." — some delusional halfwit troll.
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TheDukester wrote:That was awesome!![]()
I'm sure he's just a "hater," though. I mean, everyone knows that not liking Anderhack's work makes you a hater. Kevin said so.
he's a hater all right

Anderson and Herbert regularly give lip service to Dune’s legendary obsession with byzantine "wheels within wheels," but the characters’ "machiavellian" schemes are almost moronic.
EDIT
well this clears the matter

An expanded version of this review will appear in the second issue of SPACE Illustrated, set to hit newsstands around Halloween. Meanwhile, Chris Aylott has a history of hating the Dune prequels. Got another opinion?
el linko: http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/dun ... 91019.html
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