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From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: Re: Series and sequels in SF and Fantasy
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 09:20:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 09:20:10 1985
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> In article <2288@topaz.ARPA> marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA writes:
> >One series, however, seems to have gone beyond the limits of good taste.
> >I am a lover of Herbert's Dune since I first read it.  The concept lost
> >its flavor with the second of the books, and I mercilessly forced myself
> >to read God Emperor. I'm not going to bother with
> >any more Dune books.  Frank Herbert has some fine and interesting
> >publications that are totally unrelated to the series.  I suggest
> >White Plague as an interesting alternative.
> 
> I would suggest any other books by Frank Herbert except the 'Dune' series. I
> find his other works so much in contrast to 'Dune' & Co. that it amazed me it
> was the same author. In particular, I recommend the Con-Sentiency stories,
> about BuSab, the Bureau of Sabotage.('The Tactful Saboteur' - short,from 'The
> Worlds of Frank Herbert','Whipping Star' - novel, and 'The Dosadi Experiment'
> also a novel.) Of these, The Dosadi Experiment is the best, and I put it as one
> of my top ten books ever. Frank writes good stuff.
> 
> 				R. Ramsay
> 
> 

Disagree!, disagree! after reading Dune which I really enjoyed I proceeded
to read the next two which I didn't.  Well, I gave up on the Dune series
(except for the first) and ripped through about six-eight of his other books
just to see.  I found all his other books I read just as bad as Dune
followups if not worse (including "The Dosadi Experiment").  The one
other Herbert I did find that I thought was good before I gave up on
reading his books entirely was "The Godmakers".

David Albrecht