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Was impressed by the scope of the world-building but it's not a world I want to spend time in.
It's hundreds of years in the future. Humankind has survived a robot uprising and has conquered space travel. Yet the only occupations for women are maid, sex-slave, and stay at home mom? Hard pass.
Abandoned at 50% or so.
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It's hundreds of years in the future. Humankind has survived a robot uprising and has conquered space travel. Yet the only occupations for women are maid, sex-slave, and stay at home mom? Hard pass.
Abandoned at 50% or so.
...more
It's about time I read Dune.
The thing that amazes me most about Dune is how ubiquitous it is. Dune has been stolen from maybe more than any other book I have ever read. I spent a recent lunch hour reading message boards about the mistakes Hitler made in WWII and every other contributor had a Dune moniker. Since reading it, I see references everywhere. Sheesh.
To be honest, for the first 30 minutes of the book, I had NO idea what was going on--too many proper nouns.
Dune has a lot of great things ...more
The thing that amazes me most about Dune is how ubiquitous it is. Dune has been stolen from maybe more than any other book I have ever read. I spent a recent lunch hour reading message boards about the mistakes Hitler made in WWII and every other contributor had a Dune moniker. Since reading it, I see references everywhere. Sheesh.
To be honest, for the first 30 minutes of the book, I had NO idea what was going on--too many proper nouns.
Dune has a lot of great things ...more
Feb 06, 2008
Amanda
rated it
it was amazing
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sci-fi-fantasy
Jul 19, 2008
Jeremy
marked it as to-read
Jul 19, 2008
Monica
marked it as to-read
Nov 01, 2008
Amy
marked it as books-i-own-to-read
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science-fiction
May 23, 2009
Anna
marked it as to-read
Aug 14, 2009
Mike
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2012
Celeste
marked it as to-read
Nov 26, 2015
Patrick Collins
marked it as on-the-shelf-waiting-to-be-read
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Nov 28, 2016
Amrita
marked it as to-read
