Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

...Brian Herbert has received a lot of criticism for the way he has dealt with Frank Herbert's literary legacy. Some of it even justified given the quality of the recent Dune books. I was afraid that with a book weighing in at well over 500 pages he had gone a bit overboard on this project. I read the book in four days in which I ought to have been studying a lot more than I actually did. Brian Herbert's description of his father's life is a fascinating read. He shows us a complex man, at once brilliant and clumsy, ambitious and stubborn. A man who has written some of the finest science fiction novels ever but only a shadow of himself without his wife Beverly. It's written in a way that will reach out and grab you, a book that will put show more Frank Herbert's stories in a new perspective and above all a book that will leave you with the feeling Frank Herbert wasn't nearly done with life when his time came. I should not have waited so long before reading it.

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Definitely an exhaustive resource about Frank. If you wanna know, like, beat for beat what he did on any given day of his life this is the way to go. I feel like I know more about what Frank and Bev ate on any given one of their vacations than I do about the world of Dune. Also kind of reads like a memoir from Brian.

Checked this out from Evanston Public Library for 4 months. While I am / was interested in the reasons Frank Herbert wrote the DUNE series, I became tired of the lack of 'tightness' in the writing of his son, Brian Herbert who is the author of the biography. Finally decided that I would return it to the library only partially read.

TBC