Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
 

Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)

by Frank Herbert

This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
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spiegelscherben
  • Rated 5 stars

Read this book. Possibly read the next two. For your own and your memory of the book's sake, don't read all of them.
Another staple in every Sci-fi fan's library, though.

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Ian
  • Rated 2 stars

How can I rate as just two stars one of the most popular and definitive sci-fi books of all time? Well, it's just not that enjoyable, frankly. I found it convoluted and self-absorbed. The self-referential terminology gets old quickly, the characters get bogged down in a plot that rapidly loses momentum in rabbit trails. By the last few chapters I was fatigued and bored. Comparing this novel to Tolkein's Lord of The Rings trilogy, which many misguided fantasy fans are prone to do, is like...

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • daun_gaizer

    daun_gaizer said:

    when i was young i've heared that Dune was the end all be all of Sci-Fi. it wasn't Starwars, and since they spent 21 books about the Yuuzhan Vong, it never will. i ran into House Harkonnen and saw my chance to disprove that notion. startrek wasn't the greatest sci-fi of all time, maybe it isn't Dune. after reading this book i was thankful i had the last book of the prequel trilogy (i didn't get house atreides). to date i've got nearly all Dune books and am avidly waiting for Sandworms of Dune to reach our country so i can finish reading Hunters of Dune

    posted Thursday, September 13 2007
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