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dsrtao_A Dirty Job,_, Christopher Moore
_The Road to Dune_, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Christopher Moore is not quite as good as Pratchett at writing humorous fantasy; still, he's pretty close. Moore specializes in absurd horror with reasonably happy endings. This is one of those. Good lightweight entertainment.
I didn't read all of _The Road to Dune_, because I don't want to damage library books by throwing them at walls. Thus I carefully skipped the KJA reconstruction of a plot outline by Frank Herbert that was partially used by _Dune_, and the four short stories by Brian Herbert and KJA at the back of the book. What's left? The good stuff, I believe: letters to and from Frank Herbert concerning _Dune_, a brief history of its writing and publication, and quite a few early drafts and deleted scenes from _Dune_ and _Dune Messiah_. I regard Brian and KJA as not-very-good authors of fanfic, fanfic which contradicts significant details of the original texts and doesn't even try to maintain the original style.
_The Road to Dune_, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Christopher Moore is not quite as good as Pratchett at writing humorous fantasy; still, he's pretty close. Moore specializes in absurd horror with reasonably happy endings. This is one of those. Good lightweight entertainment.
I didn't read all of _The Road to Dune_, because I don't want to damage library books by throwing them at walls. Thus I carefully skipped the KJA reconstruction of a plot outline by Frank Herbert that was partially used by _Dune_, and the four short stories by Brian Herbert and KJA at the back of the book. What's left? The good stuff, I believe: letters to and from Frank Herbert concerning _Dune_, a brief history of its writing and publication, and quite a few early drafts and deleted scenes from _Dune_ and _Dune Messiah_. I regard Brian and KJA as not-very-good authors of fanfic, fanfic which contradicts significant details of the original texts and doesn't even try to maintain the original style.
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Date: 2006-04-22 11:43 am (UTC)