Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition
~ Frank Herbert
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Harris3dgn
~ 28-year-old man in Raleigh, NC
Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition
“The most important book I've ever read. It has everything that I enjoy in a good piece of fiction: suspense, war, romance,...”
World War Z
“The coolet piece of fiction I've read so far. It manages to span the globe and endear you to dozens of characters with only a...”
Korlat
~ 32-year-old woman in Thornhill, Canada
Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition
“I see echoes of the Dune series everywhere. Frank Herbert created a world rich in history that many others have (with varying...”
A Fine Balance
“I have read most of Mistry's books but this one is his best. I loved his attention to fine detail and how he brought to life the...”
LinZ
~ 27-year-old woman in Redlands, CA
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“I first read this book when I was in middle school and I have re-read it a lot of times since. I just love how intricate it is, I...”
Neverwhere
“Even though I've only read this once (so far), I really love it. I love the idea that there is a whole world going on right next...”
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Aug 26, 2010, 4:17 PM
Artemis, a 67-year-old woman in Homestead
“If I ever read Dune it was long ago and I don't remember a thing. What was the philosophical takeaway? If you could save me a re-read, I've got so many books here in states of partial reading...
I recall only that Dune was really hot in its time...”
Aug 26, 2010, 6:13 PM
Textophile, a 63-year-old man in Toronto
“Dune once was the most popular science fiction novel. It posited a post apocalyptic (the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines that tried to take over) universe where it was illegal to own or manufacture computers. It was a feudal society where every Great House constantly conspired against all the rest. The most important commodity was Spice; a commodity like oil. It could prolong life, enable users to see the future and was super addictive. So people not only worried about threats in the present but also in the years and millennia to come.
Religion was a means used by the Bene Gesserit, a surreal woman's order that was obsessed with breeding the Messiah and provided concubines to nobles to essentially harvest their sperm, to manipulate the masses to support the order's breeding programs.
The Tleilaxu, Face Dancers, could mimic the appearance and behaviour of any organism. Their goal was to advance their own religious plan and turn women into womb machines.
The Ix produced gadgets and flirted with creating thinking machines.
It was a grand space opera and just the thing to read before going to Israel as the core planet, Dune, is drier than Dead Valley. Its inhabitants, the Fremen, wore still suits that captured their sweat and other fluid releases for reuse.
It had great devices like the Orange Catholic Bible which was a combination of the sacred literature of the the major monotheistic religions.
Frank Herbert wrote subsequent books to create a series and his son, Brian, used his notes to write more posthumously.”
Jul 29, 2010, 5:32 PM
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Textophile, a 63-year-old man in Toronto
“The Bene Gesserit are an order obsessed with their breeding program. All their training, subterfuges and endless plotting is to bring about the ultimate genetic superman, the Kwisatz Haderech (who they will control or destroy). To this end they give up almost all human attachments. To them feeling and spirituality are only tools to manipulate humans in order achieve goal of their order. Thus they seek to banish fear which is one of the oldest and most valuable human emotion.”