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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
Apr 04, 2010
Sunflower
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Herbert went to an enormous amount of trouble creating his world and his characters, even including their own language. It took me a couple of hundred pages, but he finally pulled me into the story and I stopped noticing most of it. Except the constant mentions of the blue eyes and what they meant, and the repetitive over-explanations. There were times when I wanted to yell "ok already I got that, move on now!" but he ploughed on anyway.
I can see how this book kicked science fiction into a new ...more
I can see how this book kicked science fiction into a new ...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
Jul 17, 2008
Carrie
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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Jul 16, 2009
Jeffrey Belcher
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Dec 11, 2009
Nicole
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Apr 03, 2010
Joy
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Sep 21, 2010
Deborah Wells
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Jan 07, 2011
Ann
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Mar 14, 2011
Kathy Jo
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Sep 05, 2012
Celeste
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Nov 28, 2016
Amrita
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Mar 30, 2017
Kelly
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Mar 17, 2018
Sarah
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Sep 16, 2019
Kathy Jo
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