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Title: The Godmakers
Author: Frank Herbert
Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 122 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.
The Godmakers is an expansion of four short stories written from 1958 - 1960. It is an exploration of the concepts of war and peace, government and religion.
Members Reviews:
Lewis Orne = Hari Seldon
WHEN THINGS DON'T FIT, THERE ARE MISSING PIECES
I like Dune and The Heaven Makers. I was hoping since this was a shorter work, that it might be similar to The Heaven Makers, but it was not. NOTHING IS TRULY SIMPLE. Even though lots of big words are used, lots of descriptive language, the story and the characters are not engaging. It seemed at first that this was going to be Herbert's Hari Seldon, than we got this Psi stuff. This was not for me.
THE GALAXY MEDAL
Brick did a fine job.
YOU HAVEN'T EXPLAINED ANYTING, WORDS, JUST WORDS.
Scott Brick could read me the dictionary.
Herbert wraps this one up with some pretty open ended questions. I was hoping to get more into his interpretation of the day-to-day of a god, but the ride there was fun all the same.
Somewhat Disappointing
Readers hoping for something approaching the richness and excellence of Frank Herbert's Dune masterpiece will find The Godmakers disappointing. The Godmakers consists of four closely connected short stories concerning Lewis Orne, an agent of the Investigative Adjustment (AI) organization. Similar to the Bene Gesserit in the Dune Universe, the AI employs made-up religious doctrine and applied sociology to neutralize threats posed by potentially warlike planetary societies. Also like the Bene Gesserit, AI agents possess extrasensory psychic powers and prescience which they employ to manipulate individuals and societies to their ends. Unfortunately, the stories in this book are not that interesting. The characters are one dimensional and spend entirely too much of their time pontificating at each other. One cannot fault the generally excellent narrator Scott Brick, who does the best he can with what he has to work with, for the failure of this book to engage the reader.
Intriguing read
Really loved this book although I felt like it should have been split into either two short books or two volumes within the same book.
Bleh...
How could the performance have been better?
This reader is one of the worst. I have heard many of his books, and they all put me to sleep with his sing-song reading that has zero bearing to the action. The character might be yelling, crying, singing, whispering -- the narration stays the same regardless. No idea how anyone can call this a good performance. :(
Could you see The Godmakers being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
NEVER!
Any additional comments?
The opening was boring. The middle was OK, but pretty thin on character development. Then the end went on and on and on, with a nonsense finish.In a phrase... short book, but too long for what it had to say...
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Title: The Godmakers
Author: Frank Herbert
Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 122 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.
The Godmakers is an expansion of four short stories written from 1958 - 1960. It is an exploration of the concepts of war and peace, government and religion.
Members Reviews:
Lewis Orne = Hari Seldon
WHEN THINGS DON'T FIT, THERE ARE MISSING PIECES
I like Dune and The Heaven Makers. I was hoping since this was a shorter work, that it might be similar to The Heaven Makers, but it was not. NOTHING IS TRULY SIMPLE. Even though lots of big words are used, lots of descriptive language, the story and the characters are not engaging. It seemed at first that this was going to be Herbert's Hari Seldon, than we got this Psi stuff. This was not for me.
THE GALAXY MEDAL
Brick did a fine job.
YOU HAVEN'T EXPLAINED ANYTING, WORDS, JUST WORDS.
Scott Brick could read me the dictionary.
Herbert wraps this one up with some pretty open ended questions. I was hoping to get more into his interpretation of the day-to-day of a god, but the ride there was fun all the same.
Somewhat Disappointing
Readers hoping for something approaching the richness and excellence of Frank Herbert's Dune masterpiece will find The Godmakers disappointing. The Godmakers consists of four closely connected short stories concerning Lewis Orne, an agent of the Investigative Adjustment (AI) organization. Similar to the Bene Gesserit in the Dune Universe, the AI employs made-up religious doctrine and applied sociology to neutralize threats posed by potentially warlike planetary societies. Also like the Bene Gesserit, AI agents possess extrasensory psychic powers and prescience which they employ to manipulate individuals and societies to their ends. Unfortunately, the stories in this book are not that interesting. The characters are one dimensional and spend entirely too much of their time pontificating at each other. One cannot fault the generally excellent narrator Scott Brick, who does the best he can with what he has to work with, for the failure of this book to engage the reader.
Intriguing read
Really loved this book although I felt like it should have been split into either two short books or two volumes within the same book.
Bleh...
How could the performance have been better?
This reader is one of the worst. I have heard many of his books, and they all put me to sleep with his sing-song reading that has zero bearing to the action. The character might be yelling, crying, singing, whispering -- the narration stays the same regardless. No idea how anyone can call this a good performance. :(
Could you see The Godmakers being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
NEVER!
Any additional comments?
The opening was boring. The middle was OK, but pretty thin on character development. Then the end went on and on and on, with a nonsense finish.In a phrase... short book, but too long for what it had to say...