Children of Dune

I have known and loved Herbert's Dune Saga for many years, read all the books,watched the movie(s). Now,listening to tge story Ifind ut bothers me enormously to gave to listed to some British accented individual butcher the proper pronounciation of names and places I have known for years!!! Leto, is pronounced Leetoh, not Lea-to, Alia is Ă- lee-ah, butA-ľeah, to just mention a couple of examples!!! It is jarring and annoying!!! This is an American book, by an America author!! That is the way it should be heard by the audience!!! This is, after all, THE US!!!!

I found the ending disappointing and unremarkable.This is in contrast to how I felt after finishing Dune, Dune finished with a element of pathos while still holding the story line of Paul having lived a truly amazing life.With Children of Dune I feel truly ambivalent about any further stories in this series.

This book is written in the typical Dune fashion more of a long form poem rather than a book, but this time the story and character development was just not there. From unkilling Paul to making Gerny and Jessica lovers to the terrible direction Alea character goesto leaving Duncan a wasted character the absolutely idiotic power ranger worm costume that Lato the third (by the way he completely forgot about there already being a child named Lato the second in the first book) wears to the horrible ending that just doesn't fit the rest of the book and the ending is an obvious self insert power fantasy.