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Dune

(Dune Chronicles, Book 1)

By Frank Herbert

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780441172719

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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 also grants psycContinue

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Sono trascorsi duemila anni dall’esodo di Leto II nel deserto, verso il destino che Paul Atreides aveva rifiutato. Un destino troppo grande per chiunque: indossare la pelle di trota della sabbia per ottenere il dominio assoluto. Ora Leto ha enormi po ... (read full critics)

sololibri published on Thu, 19 Apr 2012

19 Reviews

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Althrough I don't like very much fantasy novels, well, this is just a masterpiece. Complex, deep, vibrant, a book you are tempted to read over and over again.

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Filiberto said on Jul 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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I didn't think I was into sci-fi books until I read this. Wow! It's another book that I found really hard to put down and helped me to see life from a different reality. This book will always be remembered and I hope to re-read it someday.

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Charleighh said on Nov 27, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | 1 feedback

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I read it in Italian first, but it's a thousand times better in the original language.

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Ian Atrus said on Jul 19, 2007 | Add your feedback

A masterpiece

Beneath the Sci-Fi setting stretches a sea of questions Herbert attempts to answer. If you read this book and don't want to pick it up again and again, hard Sci-Fi is probably not cut out for you.
A struggle for power, quest to understanding the self an the ever going battle against the elements ma ... (continue)

Beneath the Sci-Fi setting stretches a sea of questions Herbert attempts to answer. If you read this book and don't want to pick it up again and again, hard Sci-Fi is probably not cut out for you.
A struggle for power, quest to understanding the self an the ever going battle against the elements make this book a gem of 20Th century literature. You find deeper meanings behind every chapter every time you read it.
Please give yourself a chance to fall in love with the genre: read this book.

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Nagy Lajos said on Apr 4, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

Recently re-read the classic DUNE on Kindle. I first read it around 1985 and it was the first genuine sci fi novel I read. DUNE was still a very entertaining read after so many years and I would definitely recommend it to any serious fan of science fiction. Don't let the length of the novel scare yo ... (continue)

Recently re-read the classic DUNE on Kindle. I first read it around 1985 and it was the first genuine sci fi novel I read. DUNE was still a very entertaining read after so many years and I would definitely recommend it to any serious fan of science fiction. Don't let the length of the novel scare you off - I finished the novel in a few days.

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Jubei said on Apr 2, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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A interesting novel with a compelling story line. Much involved in the way of philosophy, politics, religion, culture, race, technology, logic, leadership, and ecology. Too much to grasp in a single pass, not sure how much study it warrants. I would like to read a brief theme study in it. However, h ... (continue)

A interesting novel with a compelling story line. Much involved in the way of philosophy, politics, religion, culture, race, technology, logic, leadership, and ecology. Too much to grasp in a single pass, not sure how much study it warrants. I would like to read a brief theme study in it. However, here is what I believe is the most important theme developed: Computers are destroyed for the sake of human dignity sometime in the distant past. Now people from several different groups are trained in heightened logical analysis. The result is many varying cultures and groups that feel cold, hyper-logical, and manipulative. Many different leader ideals are presented, but all fall short of some aspect of true humanity. That humanity is found in Gurney Halleck. He is valiant, loyal, militarily cunning, yet kind, free spirited, free from bitterness over his harsh past. He is artistic, loving music, mirth, and jest. He is a free spirit who serves another from the heart not fear. The Duke Leto and Paul both admire him for these qualities. In the end when Paul is driving towards his terrible purpose and is no longer resistant of it. Gurney continually points out to him that he is more concerned with cause and equipment then the lives of men. Gurney is the true human of the story.
I was bothered by the way the book ended. No real resolution and a seaming defeat in that Paul was willing to change the custom of the Freeman so that he did not have to kill their leader to take charge, but he was unwilling to change the custom of the houses to marry for political power rather than love. When his mother seemed to finally realize her errors in rejecting his love for Chaney for fear of his political marital needs, Paul tries to say "Oh I won't give her any of my love" to Chaney as if that will be enough, when it is exactly the situation that his mother was in that had hurt her so deeply, and that the Duke came to regret in the end. It seems a reversal of Paul's deep moment when Gurney has his mother at knife-point.

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Brandon Current said on Sep 1, 2011 | Add your feedback