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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dune 2
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:39:04 -0400
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On 3/17/24 2:36 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:40:10 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> In my very humble opinion, you didn't miss much. A million years ago
>> here in rasfw, I mentioned Heretics of Dune (aka My Own Private Duncan
>> Idaho) as the worst SFF "turkey" I had finished reading. For the life of
>> me, I don't know why I then went on to read Chapterhouse: Dune, but I
>> did, and it was not much better. At this remove, I don't remember a
>> whole lot of either one - my sense is that they weren't "throw at the
>> wall" bad, but they were really disappointing.
>>
> Is that one of those "Dune" books written by Herbert's son and a ghost
> writer?

No - Or at least, Frank Herbert passed away in 1986, and Heretics of 
Dune & Chapterhouse: Dune were published in 1984 & 1985 respectively. 
Chapterhouse was the last Dune novel I ever read - and it is very likely 
to remain so.

Tony