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Dune series by Herbert also brilliant. He advocates placing limits on machine intelligence.View all 4 sources
Dune is simply not my thing, and makes a great example of where my sci-fi tastes strongly diverge from sci-fi tastes of others (judging by the 4.19 average rating). This book has almost no elements of sci-fi except for some details that don’t really matter to the plot (ships, shields, etc.). It also starts very slowly; at some point you’re halfway into it and really nothing of substance has happened yet. The last 10% get a little better but the end is highly abrupt. The plot amounts to a chosen one taking revenge on a cartoonish bad guy. I feel robbed of my short time here on Earth as a result of reading this book. I did enjoy some of the inventiveness of the world, w.r.t. the Fremen culture, etc. “it’s okay”, or 2/5 on Goodreads scale. 2/5View all 2 sources
The book takes a long time a long time to really take speed in my opinion, but what it does is an amazing journey that I love taking part of[...] I think this book can definitely be interpreted in different ways even though, it's really just a badass space adventure. Given it four out of five stars.View source
