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Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
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Did Frank's finger slip and accidentally delete the last chapter?
0It was a bad time when I chose to read this book, my country was being forcibly introduced to socialism.
I did not have the "I prefer the movie" on my bingo card. I'll try to read this book, again in twenty years from now.
0i tried reading this when Denis Villeneuve's movie adaptation came out in 2021, but got a headache ten pages in.
my reading comprehension has definitely improved since then, and through a lot of flipping back-and-forth to the glossary at the end of the book i actually managed to get through it this time. you're telling me people have actually read all six books?
the first part of the book sets up an incredibly rich world with deep lore, incredible ecology and complex politics, but part two and three are filled with vague prophesying ramble that is laughable. ("There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.")
Herbert conveys the power of religion by turning all of the Fremen into unquestioning religious fanatics, which makes the book quite unconvincing.
definitely a book of its time!
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