On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 3:45 PM Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> wrote:
- Re-read Frank Herbert's Dune. First read it as a 16-year-old and was > apprehensive about the second read. So many of our heroes turn out to have > written sexist, racist stuff or were otherwise total ass***** in their real > lives. But Dune continued to amaze with its vision, its mixing of various > cultures in the world, the strong secondary and tertiary characters and > pro-environmental message. Now wondering if I should run through the entire > series ahead of the movie. > Speaking for myself, I loved Dune (although I last read it at least 2 decades ago) but found the other books in the series underwhelming. > That's about it. Reading A Dominant Character by Samanth Subramanian Samanth is on silk, so I will take this opportunity to congratulate him for making it to the NYT notable books of 2020 list [1]. Udhay [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html
