Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert

Good quality reading. Qualified.

The text of course exists independent of the reader though the two cannot be separated.
In this reading performance there is sympathy with the dense content, nuance. That is clear.
The reading performance is above adequate. The readers/speakers are skilled, use and inflect their voice with skill, demonstrate awareness of the different nature of voices within the character over time and within the character in respect of emphasis.
Some readers convey their character with excellence- Lucilla’s discourse with the weak chinned Honoured Matre, and subsequent overplay is represented well. Odrade is poorly conveyed. She is the keystone of Herbert’s written narrative image, love and deep respect of powerful womanhood. Odrade’s handling of her sisters is signal, and Herbert’s writing provides sufficient gap for the careful and attentive reader to begin to guess where odrade is located and what she will do ‘next’.
My appreciation of the texts Herbert’s Dune is here indicated. But Chapterhouse is the most revealing and by far the best. Th reading performance is ‘par’. At times above but only rarely equals the text- where a professional reading can provide the listener a special and carefully nuanced interpretation, the present work is adequate. Not quite equal to Odrade’s meal with Streggy.

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