Dune
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The best SF book ever written. I'd love to argue that with anyone who reads this--please just post about it.
Caution: DO NOT READ OTHER DUNE BOOKS!
Herbert cannot actually write. Dune somehow fell out of him under its own power--it is such an amazing story it just had to come into existence, and somehow Herbert was the conduit. His other books are nothing like it.
I have friends who would disagree with that. One, for instance, who has written,
There are evil characters in Dune, yes, but I could not say that people in general are evil there. There are poisons in the universe, poisons that take generations upon generations to kill. Poisons to which there are no antidotes, but are perhaps treatments--if people can keep their heads enough to work for them. In fighting these poisons people have to be ruthless sometimes, cut their losses, confront pain and make it their own. To inoculate themselves, they must sometimes take those poisons into their own bodies. It is a horrid fight and indeed a horrid way to see the universe, because the poisons, frankly, are winning, at least in Dune's universe.
"There are a few shards left in Hell," though. In Dune, hope and the cause worth fighting for are personified in Chani. The little sihaya is a wonderful person, indeed the spring in the desert, an elfin creation of spice and steel alike. The SciFi channel's adaptation of Dune, interestingly, gives Irulan a similar character. There is less sweetness to her, but the same strength and keenness. She and Paul could have made a good team, and she, too, is on the side of right in that fight against the poisons. That is perhaps more generous than Herbert was to Irulan.
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Buying copies of Dune is something I do. I did it long before I met BookCrossing, even, and I am ecstatic to be able to distribute not just copies of this book but also journals on it. You can see other Dune copies of mine here (1), here (2) and here (4).
Caution: DO NOT READ OTHER DUNE BOOKS!
Herbert cannot actually write. Dune somehow fell out of him under its own power--it is such an amazing story it just had to come into existence, and somehow Herbert was the conduit. His other books are nothing like it.
I have friends who would disagree with that. One, for instance, who has written,
On the third hand there's Dune where people aren't good like in tolkein, or lovingly faulted like in [t.h.] white [The Once and Future King], but instead coldly calculating and evil. That may be the proper third post for this stool, but I can't ever see myself reading it to my children.Herbert's other books are full of creeping evil--he would see that as a continuity. The Dune world is not to be what it is to him, though.
There are evil characters in Dune, yes, but I could not say that people in general are evil there. There are poisons in the universe, poisons that take generations upon generations to kill. Poisons to which there are no antidotes, but are perhaps treatments--if people can keep their heads enough to work for them. In fighting these poisons people have to be ruthless sometimes, cut their losses, confront pain and make it their own. To inoculate themselves, they must sometimes take those poisons into their own bodies. It is a horrid fight and indeed a horrid way to see the universe, because the poisons, frankly, are winning, at least in Dune's universe.
"There are a few shards left in Hell," though. In Dune, hope and the cause worth fighting for are personified in Chani. The little sihaya is a wonderful person, indeed the spring in the desert, an elfin creation of spice and steel alike. The SciFi channel's adaptation of Dune, interestingly, gives Irulan a similar character. There is less sweetness to her, but the same strength and keenness. She and Paul could have made a good team, and she, too, is on the side of right in that fight against the poisons. That is perhaps more generous than Herbert was to Irulan.
*****
Buying copies of Dune is something I do. I did it long before I met BookCrossing, even, and I am ecstatic to be able to distribute not just copies of this book but also journals on it. You can see other Dune copies of mine here (1), here (2) and here (4).
I forgot to tell you the provenance of this book. I bought it at my favorite Ann Arbor used book store, DAVID'S BOOKS, on William next to Cottage Inn.
Released on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at Diag in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.
Released before 10am, in a Ziploc baggie, on a bench opposite the Hatcher Graduate Library.
I have decided to read Dune again, but I want to read the Traveler Restaurant copy, because it's the same edition I have always read before. So this one is on its merry way!
Released before 10am, in a Ziploc baggie, on a bench opposite the Hatcher Graduate Library.
I have decided to read Dune again, but I want to read the Traveler Restaurant copy, because it's the same edition I have always read before. So this one is on its merry way!
