Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Duna by Frank Herbert

105 reviews

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

kergo's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: Suicide

jesselopod's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.5

This is an interesting story, very political, and I can certainly see how it greatly influenced other works that came after it. I did find some things really hard to appreciate. Firstly, and perhaps this is of its time, the villainous characters were really portrayed as evil through largely physical traits. Fatphobia, eunuch's, and pedophilia (though in a way which continually demonised the homosexuality and not the fact that they were minors as the issue) were used as ways to portray the character rather than their actions. I found that incredible uncreative and it frustrated me when so much attention was put into the creation of so many other characters. Secondly, the internal struggled the characters faced seemed to be very repetitive and never really reached a resolution. 

The audiobook version I listened to was atrociously performed. The accents were inconsistent from the narrator, and it jumped randomly between voice acting from American actors and the British narrator doing totally different characterisation. It made it really hard to connect with the story. Is the villain a bumbling wheezy idiot or are they a deep voiced conniving political mastermind? I think they should have either had it all acted or all narrated but not both, and the narrator needed to work out how he was playing different characters. There were also moments where it felt like the story skipped, but I have no idea if that is because it is an abridged version or not. It’s a good tale, but the voice acting really didn’t do it any favours. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Slavery

jester_k's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this mainly because my Dad loved it when he read it as a teen. But the story was so slow-moving that it didn't grip me and I didn't find the glossary til right at the end so a lot of things went way over my head. The Harkonnens are depicted as disgustingly evil but the fact they have slaves and enjoy murder and rape is put on a level with the fact that the Baron is... just fat. It's constantly focused on to show how gross he is and I struggled to enjoy the rest of the book with this deep-seated fatphobia. 

Also, Paul starts the book being kind and compassionate and ends up becoming an awful tyrant so I stopped being able to root for him at all. I'm sure that's part of the point but it didn't leave me with any characters to enjoy the perspective of. Then he won and it was mostly just depressing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Sexism, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Grief

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Slavery, Blood, and Alcohol

roxcollector's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

I can’t believe no one told me they shit and piss themselves in the stillsuits and I had to read that with my own two eyes 😭😩

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Pedophilia

nyxlikesbook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Genocide, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Slavery

hey_al's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I started Dune after watching the films. I'm so glad I did. As an avid fantasy reader, I wasn't turned off by the length and world building- I live for that shit. I can't wait to read more. It's not a feel good story. It's extremely heavy, but not in a graphic violence way(not Dune, anyway). I particularly love the way Herbert has written religion and the way lore spreads through people groups and shapes their futures. It's chilling, to say the least. It's not perfect- I don't love the way Herbert writes the Baron (feels fatphobic and homophobic, ugh) and I struggled with the way he sidelined Chani. But it's worth a read especially if you're into sci-fi/fantasy purely for how his work shaped future sci Fi in particular.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War

Minor: Fatphobia, Genocide, Racism, Sexual violence, Grief, and Pregnancy

rachaelbunny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Slavery, and Suicide

abigail_adel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Homophobia

Moderate: Racism and Sexism