Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Dune by Frank Herbert

19 reviews

ivana's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Violence, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

tarnishedcopper's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Drug use, Genocide, and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, and Homophobia

kashby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Violence, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, and Torture

johnhamm's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, and Sexism

chaotic_ratcoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Grief

indentyourcode's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Dune is before its time in many ways. This space opera is indicative of many contemporary political issues of our time while being a medival fantasy thriller with sci-fy technology. It's extremely thorough world building is meticulously crafted and extremely thorough. It almost feels like you can't understand small parts of it without diving into another aspect of world building.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Drug abuse

owenwilsonbaby's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I really liked this book! It's the first book I've read for fun in almost two years and I think it may have reset something inside my brain. It is very long and the pacing drags at times but the plotting and narration more than make up for it.

I would definitely say I found the first two sections of the book - Dune and Muad'Dib - much more interesting. I think that might just be my personal preference for

tragedies and survival narratives

but the last part felt comparatively weaker, mainly owing to strange pacing, as information was released very slowly and then very quickly. I LOVED the themes of self-loathing and foreboding around an individual's own capabilities. In particular, the

dark prescience and subsequent self-loathing

Paul experiences. The

burdened with 'a great and terrible purpose' line

feels like it was specifically written in for my angsty tastes!

I did struggle with the scope of the world building. Often, in order to motivate myself to keep reading, I would just have to accept that I didn't really grasp all of the wider political and social contexts for the events of a scene. I also had to make peace with the fact that it's a book from the 1960s, so sometimes it's tricky to tell if it's pro or anti capitalist, and also that sometimes its Islamic influences can read a bit islamophobically. Also the blatant homophobia of having the villain

be the only camp and queer coded character but also a paedophile!

Overall it's definitely a good book and a well-deserved classic - I'm more excited for the movie now I kind of understand the plot and world! It is going to be interesting to see how Villeneuve cuts the book in half. I definitely think the first two sections are stronger and will make an excellent film, but I'm not sure the final third will work as a standalone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia and Islamophobia

I was really surprised by the homophobia and Islamophobia in this book. It's not massively present but it is there. And the Baron's queer-coding is often directly linked to his inherent evilness and paedophillia, so tread lightly when reading.

crying_again's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, and Slavery

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

mostfrankdad's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Incest, Infidelity, Torture, and Slavery