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Ebook About Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeMillennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....Book God Emperor of Dune Review :
I'm a huge fan of Dune, and I'm a philosophy major. You'd think I'd love "God Emperor". But it's just not a very good book in my opinion. I get that this is a divisive topic, so fans of the book can go away and be happy, but I think this book is meant for a niche audience.The plot: Fans will tell you this book covers an unimaginable amount of time, that it delves into such deep issues over millennia... but the actual plot focuses on maybe a week or so of time, focused into a handful of days. References are made to things that happened thousands of years ago, but that's not unusual for a Dune book. The original Dune is set at least 10,000 years into the future. So really, to my mind, the "new" part of this book only encompasses a few days in the life of God Emperor Leto II, son of Paul Muad'dib, following his ascension to the throne at the end of Children of Dune. You can't really say much more about the plot without spoiling it, because there's so little of it. It is quite weird and philosophical, so if you didn't like "Messiah" or "Children" because of all the musing, you won't like this.Wait what happens: Not much. Leto II has joined his body with sandtrout so he's become a sort of proto-sandworm. This allows him to live forever, be near invulnerable, and to have near perfect prescience... as Larry Niven said, the future can be really boring because people are too safe to create much mortal peril. So the story has to try again and again to invent some tension. If that sounds too weird for you, again, it's okay to stop reading the Dune series. Children of Dune wraps up the life of Paul-Muad'dib. God Emperor was really meant as a bridge to a new series but Herbert died before he could finish the new series, so it's fine if you want to stop at Children, or even back at Dune.The themes: Did you ever read John Locke and Thomas Hobbes in school, particularly Hobbes' Leviathan? I feel like the people who say they love this book didn't take a decent course on Locke and Hobbes before reading this. Leto II has become a very literal embodiment of the Leviathan - even changing his body to look more like the nautical beast of the metaphor. Characters spend page after page circling around this issue over and over. In short - Humanity will destroy itself unless someone can embody such a terrible threat to humankind they they will forever after be united in their hatred of that great evil. That's it. The rest is discussion which you can get from any debate about Leviathan - like who has the right to inflict the violence necessary to taking that leadership role? How can we prevent the Leviathan from becoming a mere despot rather than benevolent leadership? I had that discussion on Hobbes in my Philosophy 101 course, so I don't see anything new here.Should you read God Emperor: If you've never had a decent class on Locke and Hobbes, or the foundations of Western government, perhaps God Emperor is an interesting way to introduce those themes to a new audience. For me though, virtually all of the dialogs which make this book famous are characters being willfully obtuse about concepts that should be incredibly obvious to anyone who's had a good political science course. It's like that scene in Good Will Hunting where the pretentious man is trying to appear intelligent, but Will Hunting reveals the man is just following a series of lectures which are widely known in that field of study and anyone who's completed the course would have the same (trite, obvious) conclusions. The later Dune novels also scrap Leto's whole enterprise - this isn't really a spoiler, but humans will go to war again in the future, so Leto's Golden Path doesn't actually even work in any comprehensive manner. For me, this book is mostly pointless.Should you continue reading past God Emperor: I can't understand how much more than a niche audience would want to read past this in the Dune universe. All the characters you knew and loved are dead, and (if we were to believe Leto's Golden Path) the future of Humanity is secured. What is there to be excited about? As you might expect, Herbert will just resurrect characters from the past (as ghola) and throw new threats at humanity anyway. Following this to its conclusion is also going to mandate reading Herbet's son's attempts to finish his dad's books... and that's a topic for another day. Personally? I say it's fine to stop at Dune. Stop at Children if you want to know more of Muad'dib. Stop at God Emperor if you have any sanity left. If you keep going - abandon hope, ye who enter here. God Emperor of Dune. The Leto Experience. The infamous. The impenetrable. It boggles the mind, this book. It is something that my 15 year old self was not ready for. I get something new out of these books each time I read them, and I was especially looking forward to reaching this one, as I have only read the back three books once each. Suffice it to say, reading this book was an entirely different experience this time around.God Emperor is without a doubt the most divisive book in the series. You sometimes see it hailed as a fan's favorite book in the series, other times as utter drivel that should be the stopping point for all readers. It's interesting, really. I'm not quite ready to claim it as the high point of the series, but I will say that I loved it. And while there were plenty of pieces of this puzzle that still went over my head, so much more of it landed. I am a firm believer that when you read a book is as important as reading it in the first place. And I may not have the memories of my ancestors to call on or a prescient vision to guide me, but I found my right time.I have been jokingly referring to this book (using Leto's own words) as 'The Leto Experience', rather than its actual title. The entire book is a trip. Truly, it felt like Frank Herbert found a storehouse of the spice melange before writing it and partook heavily during the process. The frame-story is noted by the discovery of the journals of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II, some 1,500 years after his death. The story we read then, is taken from the contents of these journals. This story is 3,500 years after the reign of Paul Muad'dib, and so right away a reader's expectations are blown apart. This is by far the biggest time gap in the series to date, but (once again) it is necessary for the story Frank wants to tell. I (do and) don't want to dive deeper into what the story is about because I think there is something to be said for the discovery by the reader of just how much has changed since the time of Paul. An enforced tranquility hangs over the universe, a suppression of freedom. Leto holds to his Golden Path for the good of mankind, but there are some who name him tyrant.It must be said though, God Emperor is unlike anything that came before it. It is still unequivocally Dune but... more so. It is dense with knowledge and absolutely stuffed with information. 90% of the book is just dialogue. This did not bother me because among Herbert's many writing strengths I think that conversation is one of his greatest. If conversation bores you though that would be a deal-breaker for this book. I must admit though, it is hard for me to imagine being uninterested in the conversations within. Dialogue between Leto and the Duncans, Leto and Moneo, Leto and Hwi Noree, Leto and Siona, Leto and his ancestral memories, even Leto and his own imagination. I think one has to give it up to Frank Herbert for what he has created in the character Leto Atreides II. I mean, it's hard to imagine a being living for 3,500 years. What a being like that would be like. And yet... Leto feels so believable. One must remember that this isn't just a matter of age, either, but of ancient memory, and intimate knowledge of the future. What would it do to someone to have perfect knowledge of their ancestral memories, going back into time immemorial? What would it be like to be so closely associated with the future of one's universe? You'd grow bored. Emotion would fall away, replaced by an implacable intellectual resolve. You would crave novelty, treasuring every surprise. Herbert represents this state of being remarkably well in Leto. Now, if Dune and Dune Messiah were Herbert showing readers the dangers of a charismatic leader, then God Emperor is him showing us a universal tyrant in the long term. He does this in such a compelling way because he gives us an omniscient look at the why behind Leto. Because rest assured, from almost any other point of view the oppression he serves up to the universe is tyrannical indeed. But, as silly as it sounds, this is tyranny with a purpose. The terrible purpose that Paul brushed up against but could not fulfill. That awful purpose that requires Leto to give up his very humanity to achieve it, for the good of his kind. He is both hated and worshiped for it, and it is completely fascinating.I can't really do justice to the complex and infinite nature of God Emperor of Dune with a simple Goodreads review, but I would urge potential readers to not be deterred from reading it because of external opinions. I think it is something to be read and judged for oneself. 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