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Whenever I buy this book as a gift (quite often), I make people promise that they'll drag themselves through the first fifty pages, no matter how difficult they find it... The first time I tried to read Dune, I couldn't get past the first few pages. Herbert's universe is complex, textured and foreign; orienting yourself in Dune is part of the initial difficulty of the book and constitutes much of the ultimate pleasure of reading. Well-developped world. Plot: somehow both epic and personal. Love, war, politics, religion, Imperialism. A lot of intersecting elements in the novel that come together at the end. Everything is cosmically choreographed into the jaw-dropping climax and conclusion, made me want to re-read it. Immediately. (Whoa! What just HAPPENED!?) Don't usually like science fiction, but Dune is definitely a keeper!

2023-02-18 14:20