![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title being messiah is integral for what Herbert is trying to say, this book and the one before it are essentially about what happens when someone who starts out as a genuinely good and innocent, though privileged, person is given absolute power. Yes, this is a novel that jumps ahead twelve years, but it’s the book that chronicles Paul’s downfall as Dune chronicled his rise to power which is necessary to get a complete exploration of Herbert’s views of authority and government in the mid to late 1960s. It’s honestly surprising that Dune Messiah works at all as a standalone novel considering as a sequel it is really just the ending of Dune. They should also be amplified after reading the sequel to Dune, which sadly despite being only about half the length of the original isn’t quite as good. It’s not the reason I waited so long to read Dune Messiah, but after doing so all the points I made in my original review for Dune still stand. When I originally reviewed Dune back in 2021 I received a rather long comment about how I didn’t get the novel despite giving that book a perfect 10/10 score and lauded it as a classic due to my interpretation of the novel and Herbert’s outlook on life as rather cynical and implied I was too dumb to get it because I review a lot of Doctor Who. ![]()
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