[Book Review] Dune
Dune (Deluxe Edition) / Frank Herbert Dune is one of those books I don't know where to start. There's little about this book that was idle creation, the first novel alone containing deep and deliberate lore, born in part out of the author's own work and study in ecology and environmentalism. I have not read more than this first book, so I do not know if the story later loses its way, it's depth, or if it loses sight of the consequences of Paul's own actions. But I am in awe as I periodically learn more and more about the book's genesis, depth, and impact on the genre. That is not to say the book without flaw, the coding of Baron Harkonnen for example. More that it's a significant body of work, and that flaws should be part of any higher or academic discussion of the novel. I say academic b/c I would totally take a literature class that unpackaged Dune . 54 years after it's initial publication, it's not an unknown novel, and most thing...