Dune - Frank Herbert Reviews

Frank Herbert was born in 1920 and created one of the most famous novels in the history of science fiction, Dune. He grew up in Washington state in the USA and Frank loved reading as a child reading the stories of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. From a young age he knew he wanted to be an ...

Melange, is a spice grown only on the desert terrain of Arrakis, a hot, barren planet, known to it's inhabitants as Dune. It is a harsh, unforgiving place to live, with vicious, giant sandworms living under the sand, that guard the precious spice, and no water at all. Melange has special properties, allowing pilots to see into the ...

The best stuff I've read in quite a while - Advantages: Brilliant intense plot, A whole world of sand, series of 6 book with preludes being made now by his son - Disadvantages: It's a big book. But then that's not really bad as such...

Dune is a world famous book and has sold millions of copies around the world as well as being made into a film and string of computer game titles. It is still selling today and has won the Nebula and Hugo awards – two of the highest sci-fi writing awards around. First released in 1966 it is still one of the best sci-fi books around even ...

This is an epic tale that is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions it about the control of Arrakis, or Dune. It is a story about Duke Atreides and his family who move there, and this is where they fall into a trap set by their rival. Dune has to be one of ...

Dune is one of very few science fiction books which I first read in my teens, which I still give shelf space to and which I feel likely to read again. Written in the sixties, it is a product of its time – consciousness expanding drugs and ecological concerns feature heavily - but it manages to remain relevant, despite the fact that ...

Dont let the film put you off - this film is a true masterpiece that lives up to all the hype - Advantages: Worthy of all the acclaim, Highly addictive - Disadvantages: None

An absolutaly wonderful book, far surpasses the film! - Advantages: unputdownable - Disadvantages: lenghly, has its own language

I had heard so much about Dune when I saw it at a boot fair I jumped at the chance to buy it. It turned out to be the best 50p I ever spent. The depth of the book is truly magnificent. Frank Herbert did 6 years of research to write this book and it shows in the finished product. The social structure is on of the most fascinating things in ...

As a weathered fan of sci-fi and fantasy novels, I had long thought it was disgraceful I had never read Frank Herbert's Dune novels, so about six months ago I bought Dune. One thing is for certain: the man was a genius, with an unbelievable grasp of the human psyche and its possibilities. The minute you start reading this book, you ...

Complicated, superb, and prophetic, Frank Herbert's Nebula award-winning Dune has captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwide. A novel which has transformed their perception of what the future could be. Considered one of the greatest science-fiction masterpieces in history, Dune is an epic tale of a hero’s journey and the ...

Frank Herbert’s classic is not told, nor is it read. “Dune” evolves, unfolds, and is “experienced”. A truly magical tale, which is so vast in scope, it will leave you overwhelmed: an adventure of epic proportions. Set in a world, which is so far in the future most of it is ...

This is a magnificent story. Chances are that you have seen the film which is very impressive. The film is similar to the book but there are lots of differences which make the book a really good read. It was a little bit hard to get into the first time I tried to read it but once you get going it is really superb. There is a good ...

This is set a long way in the future and is a story of change and development, of evolution and revolution. The background is a quasi-feudal society comprising a mixture of medieval and futuristic, mainly due to a previous revolution against the thinking machine. The main protagonist is Paul Atreides, the son of a Duke who rules a world on behalf ...