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Dune (Dune #1)

Frank Herbert

Start date: January 2, 2017

Finish date: January 31, 2017

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Feb 09, 2016 Scott Flicker rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

audiobook version

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Apr 03, 2016 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: hugo, fantasy, sf, tuesday-book-club

Part of this read was viewing my younger self reading this - hi past me! Part was seeing the age marks and noticing how the world has changed — women are people, gender is variable, colonialism has problems, ecology is complicated. But it’s ambition and commitment still make the pages turn, and the action is well done and gom jabbers are still both really cool and rather idiotic, and fear is the mind killer that I let pass through me.

Also hereditary monarchy is a silly system of government, and ...more

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Apr 20, 2021 Amanda rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: format-kindle, 3-stars, fantasy, format-book, pov-first-person, fiction, format-audible, futuristics, dystopian, pov-multiple

Spring 2020 (April - Sarah's BookClub for May);

I wanted to like this book so much more than I ended up liking this book. I should have taken it as a sign, when the first time I picked it up a few months ago, I read through a few chapters (yes, all the way past the test & The Fear Speech) and then put it down because I couldn't get into it.

The next time I came back to it (post-reading all of Grishaverse in 26 days), I settled down to it as part of a plan to start knocking out some of my book cl ...more

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Oct 09, 2021 Hayley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It’s a classic for a reason. Wanted to reread for the movie!

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Jan 12, 2020 Jen Ifer's Inklings rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar-2020-reading-challenge, audio-books, library, read-in-2020

This book was just kind of okay. It also felt like it lasted forever and I found myself just wanting it to be over and done. I have no interest in continuing on with this series.

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Mar 30, 2021 Deanna M rated it really liked it

Shelves: reddit-250

it takes a bit to figure out what is happening. you're not going to get much backstory. copy i had, had a glossary in the back that explained some terms....found that out when i finished it. would have been nice to know that before that. ...more

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