This novel is fascinating, I am so enthralled in the mysteries and complexities presented before me. I had a nearly three hour discussion on Dune despite the fact that I've only read such a small amount of this epic (it is several novels long and I'm only a quarter of the way through the first novel).

This epic, it is already clear to me, is a legend in the same league as the Dark Tower or the Lord of the Rings. Absolutely fascinating and a testament to the best that sci-fi has to offer. This beats Heinlen, this beats Orwell, this beats Lewis Carrol, this beats literally every other author in the field. It's a fucking orgasm waiting to happen.

If you haven't started reading Dune then you should drop what you're doing and head to Barnes and Noble at this very moment to pick up a fucking copy. Stop depriving yourself.

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Who dares wins. - Special Air Service

Just wait until later. You think it's complex now? The intricacies and philosophical studies only get deeper. You're reading Phonics by comparison, and even that is impressive.

If you like this though, never, ever, under any circumstances, read Brian Herbert's work. He cheapened it to the level of a common sci-fi. It's disgusting, actually.

FP

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Frank Herbert was a genius, and I agree with FurryPanther, Brian Herbert ruined it.

Post edited at 4:13 pm on July 24, 2008 by Ancient Rights

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My best friend has read two of the books, and he's in the middle of the third, he literally told you what you just told me about how infantile my entrance into the series is and how much deeper it will get and how pissed he is that he's so far ahead of me and can't talk to me about anything past when they are first meeting Kynes lol.

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Who dares wins. - Special Air Service

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I've never understood what the Dune books were.  If there are literary works that are basically worth going out of my way to read, and something that everyone should have the pleasure of reading basically, I'm definitely going to take the opportunity.  Basically in a nutshell, what is the series of Dune about?

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you cannot put Dune in a nutshell. Period.

FP

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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I've never understood what the Dune books were. If there are literary works that are basically worth going out of my way to read, and something that everyone should have the pleasure of reading basically, I'm definitely going to take the opportunity. Basically in a nutshell, what is the series of Dune about?

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I used to think it was a nerd book for star wars geeks so I didn't read it. Turns out it's the progenitor of the star wars series (though star wars is absolutely SHITTY AS FUCK compared to Dune, there is NO comparison) and an amazing literary masterpiece.

Dune is about the move of the Atreides family from the planet Caladin to the planet Arrakis, it's protagonist is the son of the Duke Leto Atreides, the boy is believed to be special. To say more than this is to spoil you. Get the book, it will only take a few pages before you're addicted.

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Who dares wins. - Special Air Service

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I've never understood what the Dune books were. If there are literary works that are basically worth going out of my way to read, and something that everyone should have the pleasure of reading basically, I'm definitely going to take the opportunity. Basically in a nutshell, what is the series of Dune about?

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The Dune series is the story about multiple things. As far as the story is concerned, the books (By Frank Herbert) Deal with the story of the Atreides and how they lead the universe into the way they see fit. Later in the story, the focus is on a group known as the Benne Gesserit and their struggle for survival.

The book's true beauty shines through in the way it shows how religion can be both created and used to control politics and lead the masses.

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Quote: from Themakingofagod at 5:14 pm on July 24, 2008

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I've never understood what the Dune books were. If there are literary works that are basically worth going out of my way to read, and something that everyone should have the pleasure of reading basically, I'm definitely going to take the opportunity. Basically in a nutshell, what is the series of Dune about?

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you cannot put Dune in a nutshell. Period.

FP

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This, is, of course absolutely true.

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Quote: from Themakingofagod at 6:14 pm on July 24, 2008

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I've never understood what the Dune books were.  If there are literary works that are basically worth going out of my way to read, and something that everyone should have the pleasure of reading basically, I'm definitely going to take the opportunity.  Basically in a nutshell, what is the series of Dune about?

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The Dune series is the story about multiple things. As far as the story is concerned, the books (By Frank Herbert) Deal with the story of the Atreides and how they lead the universe into the way they see fit. Later in the story, the focus is on a group known as the Benne Gesserit and their struggle for survival.

The book's true beauty shines through in the way it shows how religion can be both created and used to control politics and lead the masses.

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Wow I really hope you didn't just ruin the story for me, seriously why would you imply the Atreides family lives when I've stated flatly that I'm on page 120. Fuck.

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I don't plan on reading Brian's works. I am a man of antiquity and I PARTICULARLY dislike author's who capitalize on their father's genius.

My best friend has read two of the books, and he's in the middle of the third, he literally told you what you just told me about how infantile my entrance into the series is and how much deeper it will get and how pissed he is that he's so far ahead of me and can't talk to me about anything past when they are first meeting Kynes lol.

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You're only there? Oh, you're in for a shock, or thirty. And prepare for your brain to explode with the pure genius of it all.

FP

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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I am on page 120.

This novel is fascinating, I am so enthralled in the mysteries and complexities presented before me. I had a nearly three hour discussion on Dune despite the fact that I've only read such a small amount of this epic (it is several novels long and I'm only a quarter of the way through the first novel).

This epic, it is already clear to me, is a legend in the same league as the Dark Tower or the Lord of the Rings. Absolutely fascinating and a testament to the best that sci-fi has to offer. This beats Heinlen, this beats Orwell, this beats Lewis Carrol, this beats literally every other author in the field. It's a fucking orgasm waiting to happen.

If you haven't started reading Dune then you should drop what you're doing and head to Barnes and Noble at this very moment to pick up a fucking copy. Stop depriving yourself.

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I agree that Dune is one of the best series' in Science Fiction. A great mix of Sci-fi with plausible sociological ideals.

However, my personal favorite would have to be the Foundation series by the Grandfather himself. Isaac Asimov.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
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Eh, When they are that good, there is little sense debating who is better.
I'll have to re-read the Dune series one of these days [just finished re-reading the 13 some-odd books in the Galactic Empire series [foundation, robots, and the three independent-yet-linked novels associated with it]


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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
that's troublesome.   --Isaac Asimov