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My husband's favorite movie, and by extension, one of his favorite books, is Dune. A couple of years ago, ever the dutiful fiancee, I sat down to watch it with him. I love David Lynch, I've met Kyle McLachlan before and he's super nice, and Husband and I have sci fi and geek culture as mutual interests. Should have been a no brainer, right? Well, reader, I fell asleep (literally) in the first five minutes. I was probably tired or something, OK?!
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Not read recently; forgot to rate it. Also all reviews below are me recalibrating my ratings
I'm glad I read this. It was definitely dated; there were some strange anachronisms (like, coffee? Saguaro cactus?); a weird mixture of hyper developed technology and medieval imagery (like, magical body shields but knife fighting?); and it's not really my cup of tea, but this is one of those classics of the genre that you have to read some day and I only waited 50 years or so after its publication to get to it.
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Jan 09, 2013
Pol
marked it as to-read
