Dune 1965
- Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Dune (imaginary place), fiction
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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Character
Epic, earnest, grave and richly built.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
11 profiled raters. Loved most by The Empaths; disliked most by The Ironists.
Reviews
We read them all: the case for is cartographer_cy's, the case against is yuki.reads's. Marked below.
- cartographer_cyThe case forThe Cartographer★★★★★
The film's Arrakis is the first one that felt like a planet and not a set. Villeneuve shoots scale the way Herbert wrote it: slowly, and then all at once.
- yuki.readsThe case againstThe Empath★★★★
The book, not the film: the film is a very expensive trailer for it. Herbert's politics are a mess and the mess is the point. Read the appendices.
- kofi_kThe Cartographer★★★★★
The book is a machine for thinking about ecology and religion at once. Villeneuve's film understood the scale; the book understood the cost.
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