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Dune, the science fiction classic and patron tome of nerds everywhere, is a hell of a book. Totally epic storytelling, fun characters, and interesting world. This is a major piece of the scifi/fantasy canon for a reason, and its worth reading.
If I'm being completely honest, Paul's hero journey and subsequent climb to messiah are not terribly interesting stuff - to me. But to anybody who can get behind a good old fashioned epic, this is strong and holds up really well, especially considering its ...more
If I'm being completely honest, Paul's hero journey and subsequent climb to messiah are not terribly interesting stuff - to me. But to anybody who can get behind a good old fashioned epic, this is strong and holds up really well, especially considering its ...more
(review originally written for bookslut)
Dune had been calling me.
From the moment it arrived in a box full of books from my sister (I had lent it to her previously but I needed it back to review it for the 100 books list), it had been calling me.
Every single time I finished a book and wandered to the bookshelf to decide what to read next, it called me.
Why was I resisting? This is a good question. Part of it was just that I had read it before, and I knew that I loved it. I suppose I was saving ...more
Dune had been calling me.
From the moment it arrived in a box full of books from my sister (I had lent it to her previously but I needed it back to review it for the 100 books list), it had been calling me.
Every single time I finished a book and wandered to the bookshelf to decide what to read next, it called me.
Why was I resisting? This is a good question. Part of it was just that I had read it before, and I knew that I loved it. I suppose I was saving ...more
I finally got around to reading this one after a lifetime of feeling guilty for having not gotten to it yet. I appreciated it from the standpoint of building a complex story and really creating a complete universe. But it left me cold, somehow. I felt like it kept the reader at arm's length, and there weren't any characters to really latch onto and root for. And the jargon was really confusing and offputting at times. I understand why it's a classic, but I wouldn't put it on my list of favorite
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I feel a little unfair about giving this three stars, because for the 24 hours or so after I read it, I thought about it pretty much constantly. The planet of Dune, and all of the surrounding world building, was really interesting. However, the character development was clumsy, and the writing style really grated at times - I found it a bit of a trek to get through. Each time I'd start to become invested and excited by the story (do any of the sequels centre around Alia? That would be amazing),
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Frankly, right now I'm just so glad to be done...
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Apr 18, 2012
Meredith
marked it as to-read
Sep 28, 2014
Chris Stanford
marked it as to-read
