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Everyone loves Dune refernces, right?
Blue Kitty:
wasn't there an episode of Billy and Mandy were Mandy was a worm and she ruled the world because she owned all of the spice, ro something like that
McTaggart:
I couldn't be bothered finishing the book. I read the first seven eighths of it win much alacrity, but got near the end and just didn't care. I still reference it and spot other people's references though.
Scytale:
I really like some of the political and philosophical insights Herbert offers, particularly in the later books. Dune Messiah is my personal favorite there is a really good passage in there about Paul's monopoly on the spice being a form of Hydraulic Despotism and it goes onto talk about control of hydrocarbons etc...
God Emperor is my other favorite book, I actually quoted a passage from it as my high school yearbook quote (yeah shameless nerd) where Leto is talking about how he has turned planets into prisons and by keeping the population motivated he keeps them ignorant of this fact. It has a really good quote something like "The possesion of wealth is freedom, but its pursuit is slavery". My Dune Novels are at my parents house so I can't really cross reference that, but back when I was a young high schooler I thought that was one of the more profound things I'd ever read.
Orbert:
Herbert said that from the beginning, he wanted the story to have many levels to it, one of which was exploring politics, culture, religion, and other aspects of social science. He sure did that, and it seems to me that as the saga went on, there was practically more allegory than story. By Heretics and Chapterhouse, we were deep into the exploration of how a person becomes a myth, and ultimately the basis of a religion, which he started with God Emperor.
mberan42:
Yeah, see, that's why I never read beyond the first book. I didn't want to read all about myths and religion and politics. I wanted a good sci-fi book.
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