My Goodreads Review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dune has restored my faith in fiction. I find most fiction dull and empty, leaving me unchanged less a bit older after I read it.
Yet Frank Herbert wastes not a word nor a moment of his reader’s time in Dune. Each word, each exchange between characters is packed with hidden political motives, cultural subtleties, and an electric tension. I frequently found myself shaking my head in admiration and awe of the wisdom and cleverness of Dune’s manipulative characters. Dune taught me just how powerful words can be when one deeply understands how to use them.
It also taught me how the conditions of our environment pervade our vocabulary. In the dry, water-starved desert planet of Arraken that is the setting for Dune, ‘water’ is a synonym for life, crying becomes a religious act of martyrdom (don’t want to waste your water), and ‘spilling someone’s water’ is an act of murder. Dune is especially timely today, given our increasingly precarious global water crisis.
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