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Title: Passable, but flawed
Review: This is a passable, but flawed work. My apologies to the devout, but poor pacing is an appropriate criticism to any work. You cannot claim the title of "masterpiece" and totally ignore that essential element to a good story.I also found the society that "Dune" postulates to be hopelessly unrealistic. "Ohhh, let's put a byzantine empire in space!" I said it when I first read this book and others like it, and it's more obvious today. Technology changes the kinds of cultures that are possible. This culture could not come about. Willful suspension of disbelief is one thing, tossing it out the airlock is another.
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