Quite an epic ride.

Wciągające. Dobra rozrywka i czasami też fajne uniwersalne spostrzeżenia o naturze człowieka.
Tylko 4 gwiazdki dla algorytmu, bo średnio lubię science-fiction, i też trochę mnie irytowała ta matka.

An amazing re-read for the movie prep.

The book that took me the longest time to read so far. I think the Bible will top that off, but anyways...

It was a very heavy book, physically and literally, but I finally got to understand the ENTIRE PLOT once that I finished the first trilogy, and I like that - it feels rewarding. Below are my reviews for the three books:
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*DUNE* - I really liked this book, although it took me about 7 months to finish. The first part of the book felt really long, although there were interesting bits here and there, also it didn't help that I bought the 3-in-1 version, which made it impossible to carry it around with me - which delayed my reading eve further.

Second and third part of the book were even greater, it is when the story started picking up pace. I loved the Baron Harkonnen - he was truly a great character.
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*DUNE: MESSIAH* - A very different tone from Dune. It was very grim, and the theme screamed heavily of death. The story takes 12 years later from its predecessor, with a lot of questions originally at what happened between this period.

This is a solid 3.5/4 stars, but I didn't like it as much as I liked Dune #1.

There isn't as much action as there is a lot of exposition, similar to watching a game of chess. Nonetheless, it was an interesting read and I understand that this is culminating to the next story, setting the Usul, if you will, the base pillar for the remainder of what's yet to come.
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*CHILDREN OF DUNE* - What a great read! An interesting ending to the first Dune Trilogy. This story occurs about ten years after Dune: Messiah, following the protagonists of the twins of Paul Muad'Dib and Chani: Leto II and Ghani.

Similar to its predecessors, this book was quite political, although it had a good deal of action, which I really enjoyed, especially towards the end as things went completely barbaric, to the point where I was completely thrown off the mat, mind swept at the overarching themes and scheming plots intersecting together.

This war my favourite of the three books, and it definitely made me understand more with regards to the context of the previous two books, and can appreciate how Herbert's goal was to allude to the ending of this book.

Read this. For the God-Emperor!
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As you can tell, the reviews got exponentially bigger and slightly more in depth, that is because I got more into the book and was understanding more as I read along. The appendices attached to the back of this book WERE A DEFINITE LIFE SAVER - they explained thoroughly even once I finished the three books - The Bene Gesserit Plot, the Atreides Plots, the background of Arrakis, etc.

This book definitely requires a re-read, but I just don't have the strength to currently do that anytime soon in this lifetime.

A rollercoaster of a trilogy with such a unique story unlike any other. A must read for anybody who is a fan of sci-fi and deep plots. As one said in the book itself, there are feints within feints within feints within feints...

A masterpiece on the Human Condition.

Amazing exploration of society and the norms that have been established. Heavy read in the lane of Asimov foundation or Butler in the wildseed series.
I'd say one of the greatest books ever written.

It’s hard to give a singe rating, when this is the entire trilogy in one. Dune was beautifully written, and like many others, I think this was the best book of the three. I didn’t enjoy Dune Messiah as much as Children of Dune. But overall, the detail that was given to this world was amazing, and I really enjoyed reading these books, even when things got a little, shall I say, weird in the third book.

Over two years for three books. Not my style. Like we could have condensed this into less than half of its pages

Dune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dune Messiah ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dune children of Dune ⭐️

dune - 4⭐️
dune messiah - 4⭐️
children of dune - 2⭐️

overall great trilogy and really good sci-fi books but whoever gave frank herbert the power to write and publish children of dune needs to give their head a wobble

I really enjoyed Dune, which I would have given 5 stars. The rest of the trilogy however was more difficult to get through, with the slow pace and long thought monologues becoming tedious. For me, the trilogy in general lacked characters I felt particularly strongly about, but the political machinations and "feints within feints within feints" kept me interested. I also now understand why people of various (probably all) political ideologies claim this book as supporting their views. I wonder whether this was Herbert's intention, whether a significant number of people have read the message of the book wrong, or whether the moral of the story was somewhat incoherent!