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Der Wüstenplanet

Frank Herbert

4.13 AVERAGE


The first few chapters are a hard start but once you get through them it's such a great book. As a mom of a toddler I spent way too much time finishing this book in a week. It is definitely a grand epic.
adventurous challenging dark reflective tense 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
adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging slow-paced
adventurous challenging mysterious 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: Complicated
adventurous challenging slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is an extremely slow build. I listened to the audiobook on Libby by MacMillan Audio and thought it was really good to have different voice actors playing the different roles but sometimes they definitely seemed to get mixed up in who was supposed to talk, and sometimes, they wouldn’t have the character actor talk but the narrator which got a bit confusing.  It’s a slow burn but the final 2ish hours of the audio book are *chefs kiss*. 

Lots of differences from this and the two Dune movies, some of which I wish they had used in the movies but oh well.  

It’s a complicated story and a complicated path to figure out if you sympathize with Paul or not by the end. Or if you are worried that he might have been pre-destined to do this path no matter what he did or tried to do.  
dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

“Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” 
dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4,5⭐

"Strah je ubica uma. Strah je mala smrt koja sve satire. Suočiću se sa svojim strahom. Dopustiću mu da prođe preko mene i kroz mene. A kad bude minuo, osvrnuću se da mu vidim trag. Ali na stazi kuda je strah prošao neće biti ničega. Ostaću samo ja."

Na početku mi nista nije bilo jasno i malo sam se mučila. Ali čim smo prešli 100 strana? Niste me mogli odlepiti od nje lol