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By age 30 you should have a wife, a concubine, an abomination of a sister, a 61 billion kill count and a coffee service.

Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two movie adaption of the second half of Frank Herbert's Dune is very good. Verging on greatness. Villeneuve successfully captured key thematic elements of Dune in a way that is likely to resonate with audiences now. I say this for two simple

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

I came across this article yesterday about how there is an opportunity with Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two to "fix" Herbert's mistake. That was a bold enough statement to give me an opportunity to explore what Frank Herbert was doing with Dune. The way

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Dune Messiah Book Review

Dune: Messiah is the fulfillment of everything that Frank Herbert set up in Dune, the nemesis that inevitably follows hubris. I can see why is it something of a let-down after the magnificent achievement of Dune. There is very little adventure in Messiah, which Herbert blended so skillfully with tragedy

Dune Book Review

After years of talking about Dune and its sequels by Frank Herbert, I’ve come to appreciate why the book is good enough to come back to again and again. The last time I read Frank Herbert’s Dune was about a decade ago, and I’ve spent that time

Dune: Part One Movie Review

Dune [Amazon link] is definitely one of my favorite novels [with interesting reservations], so I decided to check out the new film adaption by Denis Villeneuve. The short review is that I really liked this version. I've written about Dune quite a bit. As a novel, Dune is

What readers like: Dune

Scott Locklin has a post up on The Fremen are Chechens: “Sabres of Paradise” as inspiration for Dune, in which he makes a compelling case that Frank Herbert’s Dune is based on Lesely Blanch’s Sabres of Paradise [Amazon links]. This is an interesting addition to my post last