Review: Dune

Dune by Frank Herbert
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

Not read this is such a number of years, and it's heartening to see that it still manages to capture the imagination. For me, it's the breadth of ideas and possibilities that Dune unleashes that makes it special, more so than Herbert's often workman-like prose. Some of the characterizations, with hindsight, are fairly clunky and the multiple POV switches seem like from another time. Which, I suppose they were. And I'm sure that Duncan Idaho had a greater role in my memory of my teenage traispse through the book than he has in reality.
A worthwhile revisit, though I don't think I'll be picking up Dune Messiah any time soon.

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