God Emperor of Dune
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4.4 • 961 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.
Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....
Customer Reviews
an odd combination of slightly inaccessible yet completely riveting
This is my favorite of the Dune series, and it’s the one that never makes it into any of the movie adaptations, which is a shame.
This book is an odd combination of slightly inaccessible and riveting. You are dropped into a world 3500 years after Children of Dune ends and you’re not really sure what you’ve got yourself into. There are a bunch of new characters, quotes from some hidden journals, and lots of Leto II interrupting questions to drop vague wisdom bombs that no one understands. The language is deeply philosophical yet also practical. Fortunately there’s a new Duncan also trying to figure things out, asking a lot of the same questions that you have. And as you keep reading, following along the twisting tale that has been laid out for you, you slowly start to realize the magnitude of what is being done even if you don’t completely understand why yet. Insert a few fun story arcs and in the end it all falls into place in a profoundly satisfying way, in a way that makes you want to go back and re-read it just to see what you missed the first time around.
Took me for a ride!
This was a strong book, a lot of info dumping, but a strong book. It really changed the way I look a things. I also saw some people judging this book prematurely. I think people must remember context and read it all the way through before forming judgments
Word Salad
A lot of words but not much action.