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Dune
Frank Herbert · 2019 · 896 pages
Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to 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.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to 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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Andrej Karpathy
“Dune is simply not my thing, and makes a great example of where my sci-fi tastes strongly diverge from sci-fi tastes of others (judging by the 4.19 average rating). This book has almost no elements of sci-fi except for some details that don’t really matter to the plot (ships, shields, etc.). It also starts very slowly; at some point you’re halfway into it and really nothing of substance has happened yet. The last 10% get a little better but the end is highly abrupt. The plot amounts to a chosen one taking revenge on a cartoonish bad guy. I feel robbed of my short time here on Earth as a result of reading this book. I did enjoy some of the inventiveness of the world, w.r.t. the Fremen culture, etc. “it’s okay”, or 2/5 on Goodreads scale.”↗
PewDiePie
“The book takes a long time a long time to really take speed in my opinion, but what it does is an amazing journey that I love taking part of[...] I think this book can definitely be interpreted in different ways even though, it's really just a badass space adventure. Given it four out of five stars.”
Seth Godin
“If you read Dune, and you don’t read it for the plot but you read it for understanding geopolitics, suddenly something clicks in your head.”↗
Tim O'Reilly
“When I got this book out of the library at age 12, my father remarked, It's sinful that so large a book should be devoted to science fiction. Little was he to know that this book, full of wonderful concepts about how to come to grips with a world out of our control, would play so large a role in his son's life. After I graduated from college, a friend who was editing a series of critical monographs about science fiction asked me if I'd like to write a book about Frank Herbert. I agreed, and it was that choice that set me on the path to becoming a writer. In the course of writing the book, I got far deeper into Herbert's ideas than I had reading his books growing up. The core message of all Herbert's work is that we can't control the future, but we can control our response to it, surfing the edge of change and risk.”↗
Sahil Lavingia
“📚 Here are the books I recommend reading most:”↗
Andrew Chen
“@KatyJeremko amazing book!”↗
Andreas Klinger
“DUNE by Frank Herbert is highly rated and still underrated. Masterpiece doesn’t even cut it. Read the book a long time ago, listening to the audiobook right now. Can highly recommend it.”↗
Jeff Bezos
“Nonfiction narrative, let’s see. Hmm. I’m a big science-fiction fan. I love Dune. That’s not a nonfiction narrative, of course, but it would be cool if it was!”↗
Adam Savage
“If you haven't read it, just go read it. It is amazing!”↗
Paul Krugman
“As a teenager, I was a total Dune fanatic; my friends and I used to have mock knife fights where the killing blow had to be delivered slowly to get through the other guy's personal shield, which means a lot if you've read the book 2/”↗
Rollo Tomassi
“"48 Laws of Power Mastery 33 Strategies of War – Robert Greene The Ape Who Understood the Universe – @SteveStuWill The Blank Slate – Dr. Steven Pinker Alpha God – Dr. Hector Garcia The Red Queen – Matt Ridley Finding Darwin's God – Kenneth Miller Dune – Frank Herbert"”↗
Zooko Wilcox
“@rsnous I just finished that book today! The extensive quotations are one of my favorite parts.”↗
Ken Follett
“A magnificent science fiction blockbuster. The story takes place mostly on a brilliantly imagined desert planet in a universe of tyranny and violence. The ecology of the planet is startling but credible. Multiple storylines are interwoven and come together shockingly but in a deeply satisfying way.”↗
Pierce Brown
“@alwayssendingit Hyperion, Dune, Forever War, Shadow and Claw, Count of Monte Cristo, Ian Banks' Culture series”↗
Kyle Maynard
“The book I’ve given most as a gift.”↗
Margari Aziza
“@MikeMerchant2 I'm a huge fan of Dune, since I read the books when I was a 11. I'm going to need to organize a whole panel to discuss Dune 2020.”↗
Reg Saddler
“Dune Is One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Ever #Culture”↗
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