I am so glad you liked it, I thought you would like it more than Messiah. I also loved it so much! Fantastic Video Dan. Also I am so jealous of that reading chair in the background! ===Spoilers below the break=== . . . Just writing my thoughts as I watch the video :) The Jackarutu stuff confused me a lot until the end, even now I'm not 100% sure why it happened the way it did, Unless I'm misremembering, we get hints at this forgotten/abandoned seitch through most the book right? Then when we find it its kind of mostly empty and there's actually another forgotten abandoned seitch where the people that left the first one went? It felt like an unnecessary step to have it be this other second location we'd never heard of? I have read like 10 books since Children of Dune though so I may be misremembering, I just remember thinking it was an odd choice. Alia is such a fantastic character, and its so tragic. I love the baron coming back the way that he does. My only real complaint about the book, is that I found Pauls ending in Messiah to be almost the perfect end of the character, perhaps my faveroite end of a characters ark I've read. I would of loved if the preacher wasn't Paul in the end, it lessened the impact of his walking into the desert for me, that he was basically captured and used for awhile. I think everyone wondering and hoping it might be Paul works better if it turns out not to be him, but that's just me I think. Duncans two deaths for the Attredies is such a good scene at the end. The ending is fantastic, really gut wrenching you are totally correct there. I loved seeing more from the Corino's I hope the series continues to explore the other great houses like that. The exploration of the abomination stuff through Alia, Leto and Ganny is so good, I loved finally really seeing why the Bene'Gesirit were so worried and scared of this outcome. My reading of Paul refusing to return to his role as Mau'dib is less that the world doesn't need him, so much as he is unwilling to do what needs to be done to continue the golden path, him and leto have shared the same vision and I feel like Paul was unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary, and it's left to Leto to take it on himself. I cannot wait to talk to you about God Emperor!
My reading chair is my favorite thing in the room after my Wheel of Time map right above it lol Yeah we do get hints of Jacurutu throughout, which to me I always find things like that funny where they aren't mentioned in the previous books but than play a vital role in the plot of this book lol Yeah you're not wrong (again I didn't feel like I 100% got everything so I'm not positive) Alia is a great character and I loved her in Messiah and it made me really sad when she went full Abomination. I agree the Baron coming back that way is a great touch, adding to the Atredies/Harkonnen feud. But that's why this gets crazy because Jessica's descendants are both Atredies AND Harkonnen and Alia let the Harkonnen side win out, to the detriment of her family and her family's empire. I hear what you're saying about Paul, and in theory I agree, BUT I honestly loved when Paul revealed himself to Alia and than Alia is STRESSING. But you're right, he left for the desert because he wasn't right for the empire anymore and he would eventually lead it to destruction only for Alia to pick up the pieces (with no help from her mother mind you) while also raising Paul's twins, and than after 9 years she is now leading the empire and the Atredies family to destruction. Which makes Alia's fall all the more tragic IMO. I cried for Duncan twice this book. First when he left Alia to get Lady Jessica and Duncan realized Alia wasn't herself anymore and "said goodbye for the final time." And the other was when he forced Stilgar's hand thus sacrificing himself for the Atredies family AGAIN. What a CHAD. I agree! We say hints in the previous books when they cried, "Abomination!" but now we actually see what an Abomination truly is and how devastating they can really be. Very powerful stuff. I'm looking forward to God Emperor as well! It'll probably be the first book I read in June. Thanks for the comment Benjamin!
I am so glad you liked it, I thought you would like it more than Messiah. I also loved it so much! Fantastic Video Dan. Also I am so jealous of that reading chair in the background!
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Just writing my thoughts as I watch the video :)
The Jackarutu stuff confused me a lot until the end, even now I'm not 100% sure why it happened the way it did, Unless I'm misremembering, we get hints at this forgotten/abandoned seitch through most the book right? Then when we find it its kind of mostly empty and there's actually another forgotten abandoned seitch where the people that left the first one went? It felt like an unnecessary step to have it be this other second location we'd never heard of? I have read like 10 books since Children of Dune though so I may be misremembering, I just remember thinking it was an odd choice.
Alia is such a fantastic character, and its so tragic. I love the baron coming back the way that he does.
My only real complaint about the book, is that I found Pauls ending in Messiah to be almost the perfect end of the character, perhaps my faveroite end of a characters ark I've read. I would of loved if the preacher wasn't Paul in the end, it lessened the impact of his walking into the desert for me, that he was basically captured and used for awhile. I think everyone wondering and hoping it might be Paul works better if it turns out not to be him, but that's just me I think.
Duncans two deaths for the Attredies is such a good scene at the end.
The ending is fantastic, really gut wrenching you are totally correct there.
I loved seeing more from the Corino's I hope the series continues to explore the other great houses like that.
The exploration of the abomination stuff through Alia, Leto and Ganny is so good, I loved finally really seeing why the Bene'Gesirit were so worried and scared of this outcome.
My reading of Paul refusing to return to his role as Mau'dib is less that the world doesn't need him, so much as he is unwilling to do what needs to be done to continue the golden path, him and leto have shared the same vision and I feel like Paul was unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary, and it's left to Leto to take it on himself.
I cannot wait to talk to you about God Emperor!
My reading chair is my favorite thing in the room after my Wheel of Time map right above it lol
Yeah we do get hints of Jacurutu throughout, which to me I always find things like that funny where they aren't mentioned in the previous books but than play a vital role in the plot of this book lol Yeah you're not wrong (again I didn't feel like I 100% got everything so I'm not positive)
Alia is a great character and I loved her in Messiah and it made me really sad when she went full Abomination. I agree the Baron coming back that way is a great touch, adding to the Atredies/Harkonnen feud. But that's why this gets crazy because Jessica's descendants are both Atredies AND Harkonnen and Alia let the Harkonnen side win out, to the detriment of her family and her family's empire.
I hear what you're saying about Paul, and in theory I agree, BUT I honestly loved when Paul revealed himself to Alia and than Alia is STRESSING. But you're right, he left for the desert because he wasn't right for the empire anymore and he would eventually lead it to destruction only for Alia to pick up the pieces (with no help from her mother mind you) while also raising Paul's twins, and than after 9 years she is now leading the empire and the Atredies family to destruction. Which makes Alia's fall all the more tragic IMO.
I cried for Duncan twice this book. First when he left Alia to get Lady Jessica and Duncan realized Alia wasn't herself anymore and "said goodbye for the final time." And the other was when he forced Stilgar's hand thus sacrificing himself for the Atredies family AGAIN. What a CHAD.
I agree! We say hints in the previous books when they cried, "Abomination!" but now we actually see what an Abomination truly is and how devastating they can really be. Very powerful stuff.
I'm looking forward to God Emperor as well! It'll probably be the first book I read in June.
Thanks for the comment Benjamin!