Review of 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"Dune: The Butlerian Jihad" chronicles the fight of the humans against the machines. It explains the reasons why AI (thinking machines) is almost completely absent in the Dune universe. It's a real cornerstone in the universe, so this book is an important one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It fills in a lot of voids that I was wondering about when I read the Frank Herbert Dune books. It's full of new characters and many recognizable events and history. It never gets boring even though it is one of the longer books in the series.
On the flipside, while I liked this book, I can understand that some people would prefer to keep these historic events a mystery and prefer not to know the details and fill them in for themselves. The writing style is also absolutely different from the original books. While the original books relied more on the …
"Dune: The Butlerian Jihad" chronicles the fight of the humans against the machines. It explains the reasons why AI (thinking machines) is almost completely absent in the Dune universe. It's a real cornerstone in the universe, so this book is an important one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It fills in a lot of voids that I was wondering about when I read the Frank Herbert Dune books. It's full of new characters and many recognizable events and history. It never gets boring even though it is one of the longer books in the series.
On the flipside, while I liked this book, I can understand that some people would prefer to keep these historic events a mystery and prefer not to know the details and fill them in for themselves. The writing style is also absolutely different from the original books. While the original books relied more on the reader and have them fill in the voids, the new books (this one too) tend to explain everything in detail.
Overall, I think my (highly subjective) rating is really all you need to know. If you enjoy the Dune universe, there is a very high chance you will enjoy this book too.