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Dune by Frank Herbert

163 reviews

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Death

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

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

Minor: Pedophilia, Homophobia, and Child death

harrisoncassel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

One of my favorite books…ever! It is full of intrigue, secrecy, adventure, plotting, and the ethical complications that come with complex social systems. It is action-packed and deeply nuanced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Pedophilia

Minor: Incest

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 of parent, Violence, Fatphobia, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Slavery, and Pedophilia

kerttuli's review

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 of parent, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Child death

Minor: Rape and Slavery

averagemark's review against another edition

It's really long. That'a not necessarily a bad thing, but you know there are some types of books, which you keep thinking about even when you're not reading about them. Dune is not that type of book. When you start reading it, it's interesting to some extent, but, I will be honest, it put me in a reading slump. It's just the compination of forgetting about it when it's not in your view, with it's giant ammount of pages that really did it for me. I can see how it can be interesting, but it wasn't interesting enough for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: War, Sexism, and Violence

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 of parent and Death

Moderate: Grief, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Slavery

jae0141's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: War, Suicide, and Death of parent

suppressingreality's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Rape, and Pedophilia

Minor: Colonisation

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

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, and Slavery

Minor: Grief, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism