The reason the book’s fans power through that uninspired first half has to do with its incredibly weird and eccentric second half, which upends all its space opera tropes and instead draws heavily on traditions of nomadic life in the Arabian Peninsula and other regions that fascinated Herbert. Its power depends heavily on the reader’s willingness to put up with half a novel of humdrum pulp sci-fi action and world-building. We’re here to watch a tiny speck of a person try to bend IMAX-sized forces to his will and be transformed by them, instead.įrank Herbert’s novel “Dune” - with its frustrating mixture of space bureaucracy, mystical lore and pulse-pounding, monster-fighting action - is a hard book to adapt.
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