/lit/ - Literature

>>19729734
Not a bad order. Hard to argue with it.
>Dune
>God
>Heretics
>Messiah
>Children
>Chapterhouse
>>19729770
I think that they are based on the notes. You can outline the plot of Dune 7 and see how there are elements there with how Herbert was going to create the conflict to wrap up his saga. The thing is they turned these notes into 2 books worth aprox. 320,000 words. These are not good words. The writing is awful. What's more is half the plot relied on 6 prequel novels they wrote before completing original Saga. In other words, the sequels are advertisements for their prequels. Their material is full of contradictions to Frank's universe. They lack any subtly, craft, or art in the way they are written. They don't stop either, they keep pumping more and more books. I think people would be more forgiving and say "look, Frank Herbert was talented and it's okay that the apple fell pretty far from the tree" when it comes to Brian had he just did Dune 7 and left it at that. At least he could have found a better author to work with. But he just wanted to get paid for his Father's work instead of trying to write his own fiction.