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Reader reviewed by leebase

Dune -- my favorite book of all time.   Dune is a rich and complex book with religious, political, social themes.   It's sci fi, and there is action -- but it is not Star Trek or Star Wars, it's far deeper and more rich than that.

I wouldn't recommend this book until high school and for advanced readers with a bent for sci fi or books that provoke thought.   This is no "Harry Potter" that is merely long.   Frank Herbet creates a whole universe filled with wonder, power, intrigue.  

Paul Atriedes is the main character, a boy who is the result of hundreds of generations of a secret breeding project designed to create a "Kwisacs Haderac" -- someone who can see into the future.   But Paul arrives earlier than expected and falls outside the control of the "Bene Geserrets" the society of women that know all the past but not the future.

This book is about character, honor and so much more.  Originally designed as a trilogy, it has sense spanned into a whole series of books in the "Duniverse".