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Dune (Dune #1)

Frank Herbert

Start date: December 1, 2015

Finish date: December 31, 2015

Discussion: Dune Discussion

Why we're reading this: Winner of the vote so we shall be attempting Dune in the Month of December :)
[close] Winner of the vote so we shall be attempting Dune in the Month of December :)

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* Thoughts Before We Start...
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Apr 09, 2017 Ash rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-masterworks, 2017-read, science-fiction, abandoned-series, 200bbc, 1000guardian, 0-hugo-nebula, space-aliens, challenge-sf

World building - 5 stars. Read this book just for the world building, if not for anything else. Other than LOTR, I don't remember reading a book ever with such amazing world building.
Story - 1 star (didn't see anything new. Mostly overused tropes).
Characters - 1 star (very flat and boring. They are either white or black) Especially the main character Paul was extremely boring.
Writing - 2 stars (Long drawn conversations stretching for pages together. Very descriptive writing which I did like whe ...more

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Nov 26, 2013 Antonis rated it really liked it

4 / 5

Dune, by Frank Herbert. Is there anyone who has not at least heard of Dune? Dune is one of the most easily recognizable and accepted science fiction classics of all time and with good reason! When it was written it must have been one of the most epic SF space opera novels! Its critical success spawned a plethora of sequels and prequels, not only by Frank Herbert, but by other authors as well, most notably (his son) Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson. Along those, came movies and mini-series ...more

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Aug 20, 2021 JaneymacD rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, audiobook, own-it

This was an extremely slow story, and it was also quite clunky.
There was just too much of it, a good editor could have been used to tighten up the first half.
There were an excess of characters that were not really necessary, again a good editor could have pruned one or two of these out!
I'm not really sure if I would consider this science fiction really, more like fantasy with the occasional space ship.

I did not enjoy reading this one, it just wasn't my kind of thing. Too much verbose exaggerated ...more

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