Loved itIt is fantastic. I've read it a number of times over the years. I loved it then and I still think it holds up really well now.
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Dune (1965)
Others: Mostly positive Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
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Loved it
Loved itDune is just such a classic. It belongs in S tier.
Not a fanthose movies are fantastic everyone knows that and they're so much better than the books if the books evoked that same sense in me as the movies do I'd be like these are great I don't like the books but I like the movies
Loved itI also purchased Dune, which I read years ago... I love it and I want to keep it... it's one of my favorite books, but I probably wouldn't have bought it full price.
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Loved itThis is just one of those books that when I picked it up, it expanded my mind. It made me think about things differently. It made me question things differently.
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MixedIt has been such a uneven and turbulent experience because I will go from genuinely being so incredibly invested, wanting to pick this up back up whenever I have a chance, to like currently unfortunately just being very detached, not particularly caring or following where the hell I am in this book. And it's been so consistently inconsistent that it is driving me nuts a little bit.
Loved itI love it. Thank you, Chums. It's going nowhere.
Loved itDune is also a book about rebellion, a book about war, about imperialism, about lies that are being spread during wartime. It questions the idea of the rebellion leader, the Messiah. There may not be dragons, but there are really big worms and worm riders.
Loved itThe intricacies of politics and religion and how people behind the scenes are manipulating the power dynamics and people's religious beliefs into making something that is a really incredible story is something that's very special. And Frank Herbert really came up with something really awesome here.
Loved itDune is one of those books that is very highly hyped in the science fiction genre and it's one of the books that does live up to the hype
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Loved itDune might have some of the richest World building in all of Science Fiction when it comes to the history of this planet the ecology the religion of the local people as well as all the kind of different political maneuverings between the people that are competing for control over araus
MixedDune I think it holds its interest it holds its intrigue it's a bit indulgent it's a bit slow and it's campier than I think people remember it being ... I still like it
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Loved itI read it I liked it I need to move on
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Loved itit really does transport you if you can get into it yeah really gorgeous as a literary experience as a kind of like immersing yourself into a completely different world
Loved itI love Dune I need to get back to this series it is a classic it is a legend for a reason
Not a fanI did not finish reading this. I DNFed it, and I read enough of a chunk of this, that there is nothing that could have happened at the end of this to make me feel like it would have been more than one star.
Loved iti admit i didn't fully appreciate it the first time i read it i picked it up because movie was coming out and while i liked it i didn't love it but then i went on to reread it a second time and that's when the story really clicked for me
Loved itI absolutely loved this like I can't see why people would dislike this
MixedThis is a science fiction written quite like a fantasy novel. I do think that after I reread it, I found more problematic elements to it, but it is a classic story for a reason.