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Dune by Frank Herbert

193 reviews

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

shruti_207's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Death of parent, and War

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, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, and Pedophilia

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: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and War

sherilees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

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, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

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

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: 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