Book Review: Chapterhouse: Dune
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Venganza Media, Inc.
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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It’s the end of the World as we know it…
… but host Stuart feels fine about wrapping up his six-podcast exploration of Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction saga with a look at the final novel, Chapterhouse Dune. Is the Bene Gesserit homeworld the perfect place to restart a worm farm after the wicked Honored Matres destroyed the original Arrakis deserts? Find out if the beef between the two most powerful Sisterhoods in the universe can be squashed when you Listen to the latest Now Playing Book Review.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to now playing podcast book reviews. From fiction to non-fiction, graphic novels and more. We're here to help you find something great to read. We hope you enjoy |
| 0:16.7 | the show. Hello now playing listeners, it's your faithful host Stuart, practically jumping |
| 0:22.2 | for joy as I welcome you back to now playing book review, and back to Frank Herbert's Duniverse for a sixth, perhaps a final time. |
| 0:31.0 | While it's true that this novel I'm here to cover, not a particularly upbeat affair, I might even be inclined to describe |
| 0:37.5 | Chapter House Dune as a 433-page slog, yet I can't help feeling a little bit festive a little bit giddy because |
| 0:44.9 | today's review complete submission I started seven years ago right around this time back in |
| 0:51.6 | 2017 spring I wanted to give listeners a complete overview |
| 0:57.1 | of the Planet Iraqis, as conceived by its creator Frank Herbert. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, friends, we've reached the end of that golden path. |
| 1:05.5 | We're unraveling the final mysteries of that illustrious sci-fi saga with this show. |
| 1:11.4 | Although technically speaking, the story of planet Doom |
| 1:14.1 | actually wrapped up last book I didn't want to spoil it but the ending it was crazy |
| 1:18.6 | heretics of Doom I try not to spoil the endings of books on the reviews of that book, but buckle up because here it comes now. |
| 1:26.4 | It's a doozy. |
| 1:27.6 | In the final pages of Scattered Totally Bonkers Heretics of Doom, A character mentions just in passing by the way |
| 1:35.2 | Aracas or Aracas. Whatever you want to call the planet the only planet |
| 1:40.0 | that's ever mattered in this saga the the spice-making desert planet, it got blown up good by the space |
| 1:46.7 | horse, killing everyone and everything on the surface, which is like a whole o mg you're kidding me |
| 1:53.8 | Frank Herbert really has more dune story to tell when he wiped out |
| 1:58.1 | spice and worms and maybe the entire atradies line because, well, our Atradis character for Book 5 was Miles Tegg, |
| 2:08.0 | the heroic descendant of the clan who was on the surface and he was killed on Rachis too? Wow. Okay. Well, damn, that sounds like |
| 2:18.0 | one hell of a way to shake things up and get readers started in a new creative direction. |
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