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Summary: have never been able to get into it
Review: Dune is supposed to be one of the best SF novels of all time. I like SF, so I should read Dune. In fact, I have started to read it at least half a dozen times, but I have never managed to get beyond the first few dozen pages. It just doesn't appeal. There may be some brilliant ideas in there but the writing is so ponderous, it kills any desire to read further.
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Summary: This is one of the best sci fi's I've ever read!
Review: There is one review at the top giving some pro's and con's and I would just like to say to the person who wrote those con's...IT"S A BOOK!! And besides I don't find any of the characters in 'Dune' unrealistic, or excentric in any way. When I first read this book I read it in about a week, I couldn't put it down! And it's been the same since, every time I pick that book up it just gets better and better. I don't want to say any more about the book, but a few suggestions to the one person that might actually read this review...if you enjoyed this book, try 'Enders Game' by Orson Scott Card...that's a good one too...see ya!
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Summary: DUNE
Review: GREATEST BOOK OF ALL TIME. READ IT, THEN READ IT AGAIN.
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Summary: The only problem is finding the plot
Review: It's not that this book doesn't have a plot. It does, and an exciting one too. It's just that the writing, the setting, the side issues, the little tidbits can obscure it easily. The first time I read this book I hated it, because I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. I bogged down less than halfway through. Then I saw the movie (not very good as a movie, but a darned good plot synopsis for the book). Then I reread the book, now nowing where things were going, and I was able to appreciate the intricacies of Herbert's world-building without getting bogged down in it. He does have a tendancy to overdo, to make his world a little too intricate and obscure, but this is one of the perennial classic SF books with good reason.As a side note, if you find yourself getting too bogged down in Herbert's prose, take a breather and go read the Lampoon's version DOON - the dessert planet. You'll howl!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Dune is one of the few books I have read numerous times. The tale is believable once one allows for the place. Herbert's sense of time, ecology, heroes and the impact one has on society and the power of the human collective ego is phenomenal. The new SciFi movie is much better than the original, which focused on the absurd rather than the tightly written story line. Read the book upon which two movie have attempted to tell the immense story
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Summary: Most certinly one of the best!
Review: In my opinion, this is one of the best books I have ever read. I can't say it is the best in the series though because I have not read them all. The plot has so many twists that is sometimes hard to follow, but it has an interesting course. They followed no basic formula in this book. It is one of a kind. There is very little missing in this book. It has deceit, magic, prophecy. romance, and adventure. what else could you want. It is a book for everyone. The difforence in the charecters in this book is amaising. You have everyone from witchs to warriors. The auther also carries the points of veiw of all the charecters. That is a great strength. The only thing I did not like in this book, was the ending. It seemed unfinished to me. But that left room for the sequels.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Read this book, you won't be dissapointed. It has everything you could desire in a work of literature: strong characters, originality, and literary depth, mixed with a healthy dose of action and an exciting science fiction setting. A warning: fans who like action or adventure in their science fiction might find books 2,3, and 4 of the series somewhat dool, and those looking for light reading will be dissapointed. However, books 5 and 6 are great reading.
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Summary: Wow-amazing
Review: The economic/political/religious/science-fiction is amazing. I read it and it is electrifying. the rest of the series is a little worse, but is still great. This book makes a lasting impact and requires to be reread at least twice. I was watching the series before and I would cringe and get angry every time the actors got a term wrong or a piece of plot was missed. If you liked 1984 or Starwars this is the book for you.
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Summary: Flawless...
Review: A masterpiece. I could not put this book down. If you have not read it, then READ IT!! It isn't exactly an easy, summer read. It's philosophical and that's just one of the reasons I loved it so much.
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Summary: in My top 5 all time
Review: While the general quality of the chronicles is consistant in style, if not interest, this book is outstanding. I was able to get through some of the more tedious later volumes, just by the quality of this one. The overall tale is far reaching, but well told, the description brief and effective, and the general ability of Herbert to tell his tale incomparable in this genre.
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