Book Club #3: Dune by Frank Herbert

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

I still need to write up my thoughts on the film version of Starship Troopers so we can close the door on that one. I reviewed the novel here. I found it a very odd book with a very peculiar ending, but at least there was no Nadsat. Reading this one right after A Clockwork Orange was certainly interesting, if only because both Heinlein and Burgess are conservatives and yet their understanding of the world and human nature are so strikingly different.

In any case, on to #3 even before I write up the movie review for Starship Troopers because Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of Dune hits theaters on October 22nd. Clearly, there is not enough time for many people to read this book between now and then, so we’ll just have a slightly different structure than in the past. My thoughts on the film may need to be posted prior to us all getting through the book. Such is life.

I suppose many of us have already read it by now which helps, though as I dip back into Herbert’s space opera, I realize just how much I’ve forgotten (and just how long it’s been since I read it last, and how old I am now).

So let’s all head over to Arrakis together, shall we? After this I’m picking something much shorter.