Dune
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Dune
Frank Herbert
Fantasy & Science Fiction
James Mustich
Aug 9, 2018
Inspired by a visit to the famed sand dunes of Oregon, Herbert delved into research on environmental science and related matters as he began to chart the long, complex backstory of his epic, which ultimately came to span some twenty-one thousand years of future history. Through canny and judicious textual references throughout his saga, he would use the imaginative foundation his investigations provided to convince readers that they were entering a milieu as gloriously irreducible as the world outside their windows. Herbert’s interstellar empire is dominated by what amount to feuding royal households and a variety of guilds (space pilots, cerebral Mentats, Sardaukar warriors, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood of mind witches) under an overarching Emperor.
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Christine Gilman
Oct 26, 2018
enduring saga that is timeless
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William Houseal
Mar 27, 2019
Best sci fi novel I ever read. The effort put into this work was monumental.
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Tony Rovere
Apr 3, 2019
"Fear is the mindkiller" Best quote to live your life by
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Tiago
Apr 5, 2019
As you read Dune, you feel like you're listening to a rising crescendo of a song... The slow-building of the story is delicious. You really know that a great and thundering climax is approaching.
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Dean
Apr 20, 2019
One of, if not the best book I have ever read.
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Len Blasiol
May 18, 2019
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Marcus
Aug 12, 2021
Recently re-read after more than 30 years. Still just as powerful, but also just a darn good read!
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Gordan
Nov 4, 2021
Best of science fiction.
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Chuck Munro
Dec 12, 2021
A science fiction of Shakespearean proportions that presents the horror and the glory of the struggle of civilization through the lens of a world outside of our own
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Carol Ann Weaver
Jan 31, 2023
What are you doing to me? I have never been able to read this in the past, but I was totally hooked! Great page-turner.
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Carol Ann Weaver
Jan 31, 2023
P.S. I have been to those Dunes in Oregon that inspired the book!
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Chuck
Jul 28, 2023
One of the greatest SF novels of all time.
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