The Dune Series
Frank Herbert
"My mom is a big fan of fantasy and science fiction, and she had read them and mentioned them and I saw -- she had this kind of dog-eared collection of books; and I found the first book there, and I picked it up, and I read it. I was immediately captivated.
Those are books -- the Dune books are books that I've come back to a couple of times throughout my life. When I'm talking about the Dune series, I should stress that I'm talking about the original six books written by Frank Herbert.
They really follow a struggle for power in the universe between different major elements, and they focus predominantly around a house, or _________ House Atreides and their rivalry with House Harkonnen. Then there are other major players in the universe at this time, the Benne Gesserit, which are a group of witches -- they call themselves the Benne Gesserit Witches -- the Spacing Guild which provides all sort of interstellar and interplanetary transportation, and then later on a group called the Tleilaxu. The most precious commodity in the universe is a drug with very specific qualities called Spice, and it only is to be found on one planet called Dune.
I would recommend the Dune series to anybody who is interested in either fantasy or science fiction, or really, I mean any of the sort of academic subject matter of economics or politics or religion. I would give the series overall probably about 4 to 4 -- stars out of 5. Individual books I might give five stars, so within the series, the first book Dune is certainly a five-star book."
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