Gollancz Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel

I love this book but made the mistake of buying this edition (Gollancz; New Ed Edition (13 Mar. 2003)) to replace my old, tattered copy. Almost illegible in places. On the first page, you can't tell commas from periods and the words are so blurry that I thought it was my eyes. Smelling mistakes and incorrect weeds throughout. Why, oh why, isn't this 3rd book available from Hodder Paperbacks who have produced beautiful versions of the first two books?

The story is brilliant, but this print run is truly awful. The font is very small and badly printed. The quality of the printing varies from one page to another, from poor to almost illegible.If you can get hold of any other version of the story I would do so. It is a very poor experience when you are having to squint at the page to try and figure out what you are trying to read.

It felt to me that with Children Frank Herbert had complete control of the world he created. In Dune he was still exploring, Messiah felt like an extended novella. Lots of intrigue and machinations although the mystery of who the Preacher is wasn't a mystery at all.

This is a review of the edition not the book:Cheap and nasty, full of spelling mistakes and typos (some of which are quite important!). Ink bleed on the font at the top of the page and faded out at the bottom...Get a better edition.

Text in this book was too small , dark and blurryGave it to a charity shop, will let someone else feel the pain ..