Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Dune by Frank Herbert

105 reviews

nozomi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

teoreettinen's review against another edition

adventurous tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Fatphobia and Pedophilia

solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.25

4.25

Amazing world building and god even tho it’s long it is so fantastic, definitely not a five star but a great book nonetheless. Some reviews here just didn’t get it and I’m sorry…for you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Slavery

tuvz's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Pedophilia and Slavery

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape and Slavery

suneaters's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.25

This book kind of reminded me of the Star Wars prequels. Put your pitchforks down please. Interesting characters (or, well, interesting enough to analyze) and worldbuilding, but the dialogue isn’t fantastic. He clearly doesn’t know how women and kids talk so I’m sorry to his wife and children that he must have never listened to. Overall, it was an enjoyable read. Plot was nothing too exciting and really dragged at points. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Slavery

aguattery's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

4.5

For me, it lived up to all the hype. There were so many conflicts going on at once that there was always excitement going on. I think that the religious and political overtones got their message across. 

Cons:
1. I'm not super imaginative so even though the world building was great and I bought into it I struggled to imagine even simple things like stillsuits. 
2. The first 100 or so pages are mostly setup and they can be difficult to get through. Once you push past that it really picks up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, and Slavery

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, and Classism

pellepanda's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction and Fatphobia

sanaa's review against another edition

1.0

After sitting with this book for a long time, and annotating it fully to get my thoughts out, it has become evident that this a 1 star book. Worldbuilding…good (although as a science major the ecology in this book is absolute shit). Anything else that is supposed make up a book (characters, pacing, writing, plot, etc) was not only mediocre but truly horrendous. This book is the definition of telling not showing. Frank Herbert refused to allow a single drop of nuance in this book. So open your gullet and read this book if you love being spoon fed terrible writing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

k_bb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Although there are many brilliant aspects to this book, such as the imaginative worldbuilding and the commentary on imperialism and environmentalism, I just found this book to be far too androcentric. Everything revolves around men (particularly tropes of "strong" and "weathered" men). Even the female characters exist only in relation to how they serve men, either as child rearers or through the trope of the female manipulator. For all it's incredible worldbuilding etc., the book was remarkably unimaginative in how it formulated gender dynamics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia