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Arrakis.Dune. By the will of Emperor Shaddam IV, the planet passes from the monopoly of the House of Harkonen to their sworn enemies, the House of Atrid. Leto Atrid, duke and head of the house, accepts the tormented planet and promises to revive life on it and free people from the Harkonen’s oppression. But Vlidimir (what a name) Harkonen, with the secret support of the emperor, is going to prevent Duke Leto from doing so and keep Arrakis and the melange for himself.

During the coup d’état, the duke’s concubine Jessica, who belongs to the Bene Gesserit, and their son Paul, who, apparently, is the Quisatz Haderach (in simple words, the chosen one), manage to escape.

I am in love with this universe. The movie is great, but it can’t be compared to the book. At first I read the e-book, but when I felt that it was mine, I decided that I would collect and read the paper, especially since the edition from our KSD is incredible.

So what was it that captivated me about Dune.

The book deepens into its sand slowly, enveloping you. There are a lot of strange words, meanings, the structure of the universe, and it takes time to comprehend its vastness. And I adore it because it allows you to feel the atmosphere and literally wander through the desert with the characters or feel the flavor of melange.

I would like to pay special attention to the topics that Herbert raises in his work. These are: politics, power struggle, sacrifice, religion, environmental problems and human feelings. The characters show this very vividly with their words and actions. While reading, you begin to sincerely hate some and love others.

While reading the book, you feel that Herbert has spent a lot of time researching the desert and sand, and it shows. In the process, you get the impression that Arrakis really exists.

I know that “Dune” will not suit all readers, starting with the fact that the genre is science fiction, ending with a very measured pace of the story, but I definitely recommend it to fans of the genre.

I started reading the book after the movie, and until the third chapter, I found it, frankly, boring. There were too many descriptions, reflections, details. There was nothing like that in the movie! I thought at first.

But then I got involved and realized that the author wrote not just a book, but a book-sand.

It flows through your fingers, saturates your imagination, and makes desert sounds. At first heavy and cumbersome, it becomes faster, changes, shows other sides of itself through a variety of storylines.

The book completely immerses you in an entirely different dimension, an indescribable mix of different cultures, religions, beliefs, customs and legends. It models familiar human situations by transferring them to Arrakis, has its own core of morality, and demonstrates both the dark and light sides of man.

Minus one star for an overly extended beginning, with a lot of detail, many nuances, and a very blurred ending: jumping through events chronologically, the author seems to oversaturate the reader with details, names, titles, terminology… In short, I’ll have to read the ending again.

“Dune is truly exceptional and different from other science fiction. This book is like a desert made up of millions of grains of sand: heroes, myths, distant planets, unique mechanisms. And the reader begins to wander through it, to get acquainted with a world that is so distant to him or her. But even though this story takes place tens of thousands of years away, people are still people. They want power and money, they organize political conspiracies, they weave intrigues, they want to become gods and control them. This is not just a story about a boy named Paul who was born special, it is a whole universe with its own rules and laws. In the whole series, the author reveals many topics about religion, politics, and even ecology, which, of course, are relevant to us. In my opinion, it is impossible to evaluate Dune as a standalone book, because the subsequent books completely turn the vision of familiar characters, the opinion about that world, and answer the questions that you ask yourself after reading the first part.

It’s no secret that Dune is one of the most famous science fiction books. Millions of readers have praised it as a masterpiece of its genre. And I’ll be one of them, because I don’t know how I’ve ever avoided this book! I must pay tribute to the author, because I have never read such a masterfully written work. The whole world is subject to ordinary logic, and there is nothing that exists for no reason.

Dune is another name for the planet Arrakis, which the Emperor gave as a feudal lord to the Atrid family. This sandy land is rich in spices, and he who controls spices controls the world. But the predecessors of the Atrides, the House of Harkonnen, do not give up easily. So the new place is teeming not only with the secrets of the indigenous desert population, the Freemen, but also with treachery and betrayal. How will the heroes cope with this?

One of the features of Dune is not only a great story, but, as Frank Herbert’s son noted in the preface, this book can be viewed from different angles. From the ecological point of view, because life continues to exist despite the terrible conditions, from the political point of view, because the book boasts not only intrigues but also the well-developed motivation of various characters (not only the Atrides), and from the point of view of the formation of religion. Therefore, every reader will find a niche for himself or herself and will be fascinated by the book.

The edition is of high quality, and there are beautiful illustrations that complement the picture (although the movie has already been released).

Good afternoon, readers!

Well, I gave it three stars for a reason. (They mean that the book didn’t make me cry and didn’t really hook me.)

The reason lies more in the fact that after reading it, I was left with a feeling of incomprehension, just like before. (Yes, I watched the movie first, which left a lot of questions, which encouraged me to buy the book).

Somehow…? I think based on the fact that I have no desire to tell everyone and everything about the story I read, you can draw the appropriate conclusion.

Now the choice is yours alone, try to give it a shot, you might like it.

Good luck!