Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site edison.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!dca From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Series and sequels in SF and Fantasy Message-ID: <511@edison.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 09:20:10 EDT Article-I.D.: edison.511 Posted: Fri Jun 21 09:20:10 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:41:32 EDT References: <2288@topaz.ARPA> <176@westo.kcl-cs.UUCP> Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 32 >> > 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