535 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 1990 by Chilton Books, Putnam - Penguin Books.
Dune is set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange, or "spice", a drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities. Melange is also necessary for space navigation, which requires a kind of multidimensional awareness and foresight that only the drug provides. As melange can only be produced on Arrakis, control of the planet is a coveted and dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the factions of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its spice.
You are really brough into the world of Dune the book sucks you in with intrigue as it reveals how the world works and how the people of Arrakis live, the book can drag on in some parts but it is well written and gives you a real feel for the world.
Det tok meg to måneder, men jeg kom meg gjennom. Originalen og Children var høydepunktene, og Messiah trekker scoren litt ned.
Disse bøkene kommer til å leve i hjernen min i mange år, og blir sannsynligvis lest igjen senere, når jeg har latt dem synke inn og jeg har fått lest God Emperor of Dune.
Men først skal jeg ta en liten ferie fra Arrakis og utforske nye verdener.
Frank Herberts Dune var nåt annat. Nåt nytt. Det var en läsupplevelse i tiden. Religion och droger. Miljö, ekologi och social kamp. Motstånd och diktatur. Urfolk som kämpar, frälsare och banditer. Goda och onda. Imperialism och uppror. Precis vad mycket i slutet av 1960-talet och början av 1970-talet handlade om.
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it took me ages to get through this. not because it's bad, probably mostly because i repaired my computer and had.. other things on my mind. but also partly because herbert's style reminds me of tolkien. like, a lot. at least in the sense that herbert really wants you to read his mediocre poetry too.
this isn't bad by any means, and i will surely read on in the future. probably around the time the second movie hits. the characters are fleshed-out and there's surprisingly little overt misogyny for a science fiction book that is, at this point, positively ancient. it's just the constant internal monologuing and then rushing through the actual happenings that gets exhausting after a while.
While my friends were reading Herbert and Moorcock, I was reading other science fiction and fantasy, so I missed out on discussing Harkonen and Fremen with them. Excellent book, rich with politics and intrigue and even a few battles. Dune sits on a knife edge, and the plot could have gone either way with equal success - and that fact comes through in Paul's time sense.
I really can't add much to the many great reviews already out there. This book loses nothing with age, and is a worthy read. How far to go in the various sequels may be the only topic of conversation. The knife-edge balance of this perfectly lends itself to games, and I find a burning desire to play Dune (the Avalon Hill board game) and Dune II (one of the first real-time strategy games) and possibly Dune: The Dice Game (newly released, with the great …
While my friends were reading Herbert and Moorcock, I was reading other science fiction and fantasy, so I missed out on discussing Harkonen and Fremen with them. Excellent book, rich with politics and intrigue and even a few battles. Dune sits on a knife edge, and the plot could have gone either way with equal success - and that fact comes through in Paul's time sense.
I really can't add much to the many great reviews already out there. This book loses nothing with age, and is a worthy read. How far to go in the various sequels may be the only topic of conversation. The knife-edge balance of this perfectly lends itself to games, and I find a burning desire to play Dune (the Avalon Hill board game) and Dune II (one of the first real-time strategy games) and possibly Dune: The Dice Game (newly released, with the great tag line "The Dice Must Flow!").
