An excellent book for any fan of science fiction!

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	• Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) Frank Herbert Ace Trade, 2005 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 1026 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Childhood Treasure

it is written in the apocryphal new testament, within the pages of the Apocalypse of Baruch...

"around the sun flies a phoenix, the phoenix excretes a worm and the worm excretes cinamon. this is eaten by the kings and princes of the earth."

thats all ive got to say... this man (Frank Herbert) was certainly well read.

love, Snow-Flake. xxx

An excellent book for any fan of science fiction!

When I started off reading Dune 3-4 years ago, I gave up about 200 pages in just because it seemed too complex to me at the time. Years later, I came back to it again because the summertime is quite boring with no job/school.

Suffice to say, not only did I understand what was going on a lot better, I actually loved the book in the end.

Dune is set on a planet known as Arrakis, which happens to be the gem of the interstellar empire that House Atreides and Harkonnen are in. As it turns out, Arrakis is the sole source of spice/melange that is vital for traveling the galaxy as it helps to sharpen psychic powers and vision for pilots.

Recently, the control of Arrakis has been shifted from House Harkonnen to House Atreides. House Harkonnen does not want to give up its source of wealth and power quietly and plots to make matters very turbulent for House Atreides on Arrakis.

The Baron, head of House Harkonnen, plots to rid Arrakis of the Atreides anyway he can and eventually sends the young heir to the throne (Paul) into the hostile desert sands. Paul meets the Fremen (sand-people) during his time in the deserts and ends up, no thanks to the Baron, surviving and goes about biding his time until he can somehow convince these people to fight with him to get his rightful throne back on Arrakis.

A sub-plot to this book is the fact that Paul Atreides is much more than a mere overthrown duke. He is the product of a plan by the Bene Gesserits, a class of humans highly trained in the psychic arts, to breed one of their own that can see into depths of the future and mind far better than any of their typically female members can.

This book was a real joy to read. Sometimes it was tough getting bogged down in all of the characters and places, etc. However, it was not as difficult to read the second time around and I thoroughly look forward to the reading of the second installment in Dune Messiah.

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Epic

People had been recommending this book to me for years. I had avoided it, convinced it could never stack up to my first epic love, Lord of the Rings. I'd seen bits and pieces of the Dune film here and there on cable, and wasn't impressed. I spotted it in paperback last month at a garage sale for $0.25, finally caved and decided to just read it.

I so regret the wasted years! I was engrossed from the first page. Frank Herbert created an amazing and rich universe, complex enough to satisfy this Tolkien fanatic. Plenty of reviews offer synopsis; I will just suggest giving it a chance. I'll be reading the others in the series, and I'll surely be revisiting Book 1 in the future.

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A Classic!

Anyone who loves sci-fi, or reading in general, needs to buy this book. Frank Herbert's Dune casts a unique spell that leads one to believe that these foreign and distant worlds and civilizations, which are brilliantly developed, actually existed and are part of a historical biography. Few books manage to obtain this level of success.

I'm not going to include spoilers, so check it out if you want more info!

-Vince
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A Cast Recording

Dune has been given the audio treatment that it deserves, not a directed reading like 99% off all audio books, but like an audio play, similar to the old 30's and 40's radio performances with small cast playing various roles.

Regrettably this performance is mar by the same problem that plagued that SciFi Channel miniseries, the misprouncement of Harkonnen. It's not Hark-ah-in, it's Har-cone-in. Even Herbert pounce it Har-cone-in

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The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition.

"Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings."--Arthur C. Clarke

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would 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. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.

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