Reviews tagging 'War'

Duna by Frank Herbert

182 reviews

s4rahh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I loved it. Really good written, the authors style fitts well. A komplex world

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, and War

Minor: Child death and Pregnancy

michelleabdanan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Brilliant! Dune is a science fiction masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kubs's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Big worm.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

geckotigerwolf's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.25

So slow. Soooo slow. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: War

emeraldzak's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Misogyny and War

Minor: Child death, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

pro-eugenics / "race science" / "genetic destiny"

jomojobo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Slavery, Grief, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Genocide, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death and Fire/Fire injury

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Slavery, and Death of parent

fin_pilot's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Ableism

katie0528's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A sci-fi classic. I've blown this off for years thinking I knew enough by how elements have trickled down into pop culture. However after watching the two new movies, I decided to give the book a chance. I see now why it is a classic that so many other sci-fi franchises draw from. It largely holds up. Of course as a book from the 60s, there are elements that are a little cringe to a modern reader and there are elements and small plot lines that could have been cut for the sake of brevity, but over all I was impressed with the book. I think it helped that the audiobook had a full cast to help me keep track of who was who. I suspect some of the minor characters may have blended together otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death, Slavery, and Torture

t_rich15's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a very heavy read that took a while to get through. A lot of the time it was hard to understand what was happening, but when I did it was a very interesting and enjoyable read. Many of the names confused me as proper descriptions were forgotten by the time the character re-appeared but the simpler names for the main characters helped with that issue (partially). A good read but not of my normal genre or interests. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Death