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

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