The similarities between Teg and the original Leto are pretty suggestive and the spice trance doubly so.

The first time I read God Emperor of Dune I was so put off the series by it that I refused to pick Heretics up for almost an entire decade. His first SF story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of 'Dune World' and 'The Prophet of Dune' that were amalgamated in the novel Dune in 1965. I think maybe that is why series are so popular, it is a chance to shut the door, close the windows and embrace another world.Somehow full of even more misogyny than the previous novel and now with a dusting of anti-progressive political vitriol, this book is a dumpster fire in my opinion.

Other reviewers have raved over it it saying it is far superior to its predecessor God Emperor of Dune. There's building up mysteries and plot twists, and then there's leaving the readers in the dark to the point that they begin to wonder if even YOU know what you're talking about. The last two Dune books have a kind of crystalline beauty about them, although they can seem rather difficult and austere at first. Do you see what I keep saying about Herbert leaving WAY too much of what would make his books make more sense vague and up to the reader's own imagination instead of giving us clear character motivations and explanations on the import of certain people and events that bring us into the story?

Navikao sam da Herbert u jednom pasusu lomi radnju i pravi znacajne obrte ali ovoga puta kada to radi deluje da ne drzi sve konce u rukama i da po malo i nasilno stvari tera ka konkluziji. The final revelation of the Sisterhood's `grand design' isn't particularly convincing, but even this is put to good use by Herbert: the dependency of people on the perceived authority and vision of leaders is a key theme here, one that is gradually expanded to include the question of free will in a universe that may or may not be on a predetermined path set by God (or Leto II, in this case. It was as though her accumulated female memories lashed out at the unconscious assumptions and unexamined prejudices behind the concept.

Heretics takes place several thousand years after the events of God Emperor, offering Herbert the chance to clear the decks. I am not looking forward to reading Chapterhouse: Dune, I will only do so because of my stubborn resolve to not leave a series unfinished, but after that, thankfully I will be done.Taraza and Odrade become closely associated, known under nicknames Tar and Dar, despite doubts that sisterhood places in Odrade who remains something of a romantic. Fifteen hundred years have passed since the 3,500-year reign of the God Emperor Leto II Atreides ended with his assassination; humanity is firmly on the Golden Path, Leto's plan to save humanity from destruction. Herbert tries to mix things up by making this Duncan ghola a teenager, similar in age to Paul Atreides in the first novel.