beaneater

The idea behind the story is great, but I felt there were some plot holes and events that didn’t quite make sense, which took away from the overall experience. The book is easy to read, but at times it felt like it was written by a high school student with an interest in science who didn’t do much research on the topics they were writing about. Overall, the book reads more like a rough draft than a finished work.

I was genuinely looking forward to reading it, but in the end, it left me disappointed and I didn’t really enjoy how it all came together.

The book that inspired not only the famous Star Wars. A story so sophisticated, thoughtful and as mentioned for the millionth time - complex. I'll admit that reading it was a little challenging for me. I didn't know what I was getting into and the complexity of the history of the world of Dune took me by surprise. So I cracked through the first book very slowly and carefully, even going back to important passages that were very essential to understanding the lore. And I don't regret a single line.
Politics plays a big role here too, and it makes the book all the more real. Baron Harkonnen as a villain was great. He was a properly greedy man, and it was his greed that was his undoing.
But after 600 pages, I need to read something where I don't have to engage my brain cells so much.

Dune learned to walk so Star Wars could run.

It's just a shame that D. Lynch screwed up the film adaptation (Dune, 1984) like hell.