The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1)

Mass Market Paperback, 704 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2003 by Tor Books.

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978-0-7653-4077-1
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Legends of Dune, Book 1

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reviewed The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1) by Kevin J. Anderson (Legends of Dune (1))

Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Beneath Contempt

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Jesus only hung on the cross for three days. I have read four hundred and fifty-four PAGES of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.

And I did it to save your soul.

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When I was ten years old I was quite precocious. I read and loved Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and had a voracious appetite for new books. So I picked up Frank Herbert's Dune without a second thought.

I never saw it coming.

A hundred pages later I was startled to feel tears pouring down my young face; tears of pure frustration. The book was hard, too hard and complex for my ten-year-old mind to cope with. In a fit of fury, I threw the book across the room.

I hated Dune for years. Herbert, too. But my reading speed is way too fast, so by the time I was sixteen or so I couldn't avoid reading some other …

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