Review Time.
Oh yes, before i start the review i meant to do i had better to Dune (Hunters of)
Hunters of Dune, good book, very readable, mostly within the vein of Frank Herberts original stuff.
However i smell a rat, it has been a long time since the great man kicked the bucket, to find a safe deposit box after all this time, even allowing for writing and publishing time, seems to convienent.
I reckon there was notes, however they where not very great in volume and essentially not very useful, interesting but not very useful. Please the guy died.
So after having written the preludes, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson reckon that they probably take these scant little notes and turn them into something that any Dune fan would die for.
Now this sounds like what they said happened, but it is a matter of scope.
Good book, but then i liked the Prequels, they where not Dune books, they where Corporate Fan Fiction, but then so are almost all Star Wars novels. Basically they where readable and expanded the universe, which is something few fans can resist, and those that moan about stuff like that not being 'True' to the original stuff, really need to take a reality check.
Some bits where stupid, like the identity of the Couple, some bits where inevitable like Duncan and Sheena hooking up or the Guild being assholes. The Oracle of Time stuff is just...well i don't know how to describe it, on one level they brought back my favourite character from the Prequels, however they brought back my favourite character from the prequels.
One very good thing about this book however is that it doesn't call you stupid. I am stupid, extremely dull witted i am aware of this, however i often get what is going on in a book.
Dune books on the other hand told you very little, and half the time didn't tell you enough to piece together why Leto II was calling the Reverend Mother stupid. I don't doubt that she was being a bit dim compared with THE GREATEST MAN TO HAVE EVER LIVED! The Tyrant was not a generous dude, but could he throw us a fricking bone.
This book (and the Prequels) don't do that, they are written by lesser men and the people in them are generally not on the same level as Muad'dib, which helps. It is not that they are patronising, just that they are on the level of the rest of the human race.
Also why they brought back mother fucking Yeuh is utterly beyond me, he is one of the two Judas figures, he did what he did for love, but noone ever tells history that. So why several thousand years later would they bring him back?
Anyway onto Never The Bride.
Fucking awesome, emminantly readable, really quite funny and set in Whitby.
It has one downside, it has a shite assed ending. Huge fucking cop out.
Like the guy suddenly realised he could do this for as a series for a living, don't get me wrong i would buy everyone of them, and thought that he couldn't end it. Not properly.
Also for some reason the entrance of Alucard (it's set in Whitby, shut yer pus) utterly stunning.
Never have i imagined a scene so well, and heard the words so clearly.
'Is something untoward going on here?' Spifftacular.
Finished it in a day as well, although the extended maintenance of the WoW servers helped with that one.
Hunters of Dune, good book, very readable, mostly within the vein of Frank Herberts original stuff.
However i smell a rat, it has been a long time since the great man kicked the bucket, to find a safe deposit box after all this time, even allowing for writing and publishing time, seems to convienent.
I reckon there was notes, however they where not very great in volume and essentially not very useful, interesting but not very useful. Please the guy died.
So after having written the preludes, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson reckon that they probably take these scant little notes and turn them into something that any Dune fan would die for.
Now this sounds like what they said happened, but it is a matter of scope.
Good book, but then i liked the Prequels, they where not Dune books, they where Corporate Fan Fiction, but then so are almost all Star Wars novels. Basically they where readable and expanded the universe, which is something few fans can resist, and those that moan about stuff like that not being 'True' to the original stuff, really need to take a reality check.
Some bits where stupid, like the identity of the Couple, some bits where inevitable like Duncan and Sheena hooking up or the Guild being assholes. The Oracle of Time stuff is just...well i don't know how to describe it, on one level they brought back my favourite character from the Prequels, however they brought back my favourite character from the prequels.
One very good thing about this book however is that it doesn't call you stupid. I am stupid, extremely dull witted i am aware of this, however i often get what is going on in a book.
Dune books on the other hand told you very little, and half the time didn't tell you enough to piece together why Leto II was calling the Reverend Mother stupid. I don't doubt that she was being a bit dim compared with THE GREATEST MAN TO HAVE EVER LIVED! The Tyrant was not a generous dude, but could he throw us a fricking bone.
This book (and the Prequels) don't do that, they are written by lesser men and the people in them are generally not on the same level as Muad'dib, which helps. It is not that they are patronising, just that they are on the level of the rest of the human race.
Also why they brought back mother fucking Yeuh is utterly beyond me, he is one of the two Judas figures, he did what he did for love, but noone ever tells history that. So why several thousand years later would they bring him back?
Anyway onto Never The Bride.
Fucking awesome, emminantly readable, really quite funny and set in Whitby.
It has one downside, it has a shite assed ending. Huge fucking cop out.
Like the guy suddenly realised he could do this for as a series for a living, don't get me wrong i would buy everyone of them, and thought that he couldn't end it. Not properly.
Also for some reason the entrance of Alucard (it's set in Whitby, shut yer pus) utterly stunning.
Never have i imagined a scene so well, and heard the words so clearly.
'Is something untoward going on here?' Spifftacular.
Finished it in a day as well, although the extended maintenance of the WoW servers helped with that one.