Dune (Dune #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Oct 09, 2017 Kate rated it liked it

It was alright... I was honestly expecting better with all the accolades and such. I don't really like books that do big jumps in time. Like two years and suddenly this person is with this person and they have all these abilities or are leaders. I like seeing that transformation happen not just being told it happened. I think it is kinda lazy on the author's part. I know, probably not a popular opinion, but it is mine. ...more

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Apr 04, 2010 Sunflower rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-read-2010

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

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Feb 27, 2014 Abigail rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: challenge-recommendation, sci-fi, 2014, src2014-spring

Ugh. Just... ugh. While I can appreciate the deep world-building and why Herbert is seen as a founding father of sci-fi, this book is so far beyond palatable. To be fair, I don't read a ton of science fiction. Even so, I generally appreciate good writing, interesting relationships, and well-formed characters. To me, this lacked all of that.

Nope, it's a '70s teenage boy's dream. You meet people just long enough to kill them off. The bad guy is fat, and the only homosexual -- and probably a pedoph ...more

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Feb 27, 2010 Andrew rated it it was amazing

One of the most...MOST SciFi books ever. Words do not describe, just read it.

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Jul 31, 2017 Cora rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic, kindle, science-fiction, audible, 1st-in-series, award-winner, pbt-100-fiction, series, lost-in-fire, dragon-wishlist

I really enjoyed this grand science fiction classic. The world building was incredible, both the environment of the planet as well as the political and cultural aspects of the world. Although I liked the story and the characters, the book dragged a bit at the beginning for me and some interesting characters were introduced and then they dropped away never to appear again (perhaps they will reappear in the later books in the series). Although the book was published in the 60s, it still seems rele ...more

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