Dune Storybook [Hardcover]

Joan D. Vinge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 7, 1984

Young Paul Atreides, son of a powerful family from the planet Caladan, may be the looked-for leader who will save the desert planet Dune, source of a precious spice which gives people strange mental powers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 60 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult; Mti edition (September 7, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399129499
• ISBN-13: 978-0399129490
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,446,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For lovers of either the movie or the book, March 26, 2000

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Matthew D. Zelie (Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dune Storybook (Hardcover)

Frank Herbert created one of the most enduring novels time with "Dune" which repeatedly crops up on most lists for greatest science-fiction novels of the 20th century. With "Dune," Frank Herbert showed the world that science-fiction had a serious side. David Lynch's film adaptation of "Dune" may be disappointing to purists who find fault with his tampering with the plot, but nobody can fault him for creating dazzling visual images. Joan D. Vinge captures the scope and complexity of the plot with her excellent streamlined version of the screen-play and the color photos capture the other-worldly feel that the movie so succesfully created.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Children of Dune, April 2, 2008

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Amaranth "music fan" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dune Storybook (Hardcover)

"The Dune Storybook" was one of my favorite reads in my younger days. It's hard now for anyone to imagine a Dune book for children, let alone based on a David Lynch movie (I doubt "Mulholland Drive" will be cleaned up for the kids) I found the story engaging and engrossing.

"Dune Storybook" makes the complex Frank Herbert story accessible. It shows the breadth and depth of David Lynch's vision in bringing the epic to the screen. There's the mysterious Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, the majestic Princess Irulan, the hideous Baron Harkonnen, the beautiful Chani... as well as the great Paul Atreides. Since this is a children's book, Duke Leto and the Lady Jessica are married. The scene with Sting only in a codpiece is cut out. There's no closing line of Jessica to Chani, "We who now bear the title of concubine, history will call us wives." Still, the story remains.

"Dune Storybook" shows that a complicated storyline,as well as an epic movie, can be made kid-friendly. It stands on its own. After all, there weren't children's versions of Lord of the Rings or the Matrix trilogy. As a kid, I liked the Dune Storybook. David Lynch didn't mess me up. Joan Vinge did a great job.