Helpful Score: 2
I personally bought this book in 1968 for 75 cents- a lot of money to me at the time. It was worth it. This is the one that turned me on to Herbert. Here was an author that finely crafted and polished his work and who actually said something significant about us humans. The Gibson of his generation. Paranoid? Skitsy? Yes indeed, but don't you wish there was a Santaroga Valley- I do.
Helpful Score: 1
The pros: The book is a good mystery. Frank Herberts writing style is hard to put down, and he delivers in this book yet again.
The Cons: This book seems to leap right into the story, I didn't feel any setup, which will seem to conflict with my next thought... The book also felt inflated, like a twilight zone episode stretched to a movie. At the same time it felt to be a re-hash of other things, even Dune got pulled in.
Perhaps Frank Herbert had to work something out of his system. I had a hard time putting it down, and finished it in a day, but afterwards I didn't feel any deep connection to the book.
The Cons: This book seems to leap right into the story, I didn't feel any setup, which will seem to conflict with my next thought... The book also felt inflated, like a twilight zone episode stretched to a movie. At the same time it felt to be a re-hash of other things, even Dune got pulled in.
Perhaps Frank Herbert had to work something out of his system. I had a hard time putting it down, and finished it in a day, but afterwards I didn't feel any deep connection to the book.
