Title: An old favorite; wonderful in its scope
Review: I read this book when I was a teen - I read the first four Dune books in one week while I was sick during Spring Break one year. Reading them almost "in one sitting" is intoxicating in that you realize the breadth and scope of the Dune novels as they cover millenia yet connect time and space through familiar themes. As a child of the Radical Reformation in Christianity, the theme of overthrowing religious tyrants only to have new ones attempt to arise from within the reformation is all too familiar. The temptation to abandon personal responsibility to a "superman" (or "superworm")is one of the central struggles of the 20th century. Frank Herbert's genius is to remove us from our familiar surroundings to show us the dynamics of the abandonment of freedom.
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