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  • A Little More on the End of Dune

    I’ve been running a Dune book club over at dunecember.com since December, in case you didn’t know. We (and I) just finished the book this week, and I wrote a looooong recap of the last 50 pages and discussed it a bit. I had some more that I wanted to share with regards to my…

  • Dunecember: End of the Story Discussion

    Have you finished Dune(cember)? I have. Let’s talk.

  • Dunecember: Week 8 Roundup

    Here we are: halfway through book three, most of the way through Dune. Crazy things are still happening: our main character(s) are still finding their place in their world. The protagonist and the antagonist haven’t even met yet, and we’ve only got about 50 pages left (plus the appendices)! Thus far in Book Three, the…

  • Dunecember: Weeks 6 + 7 Roundup (Book 2)

    hat a crazy couple of weeks for Paul and for Arrakis. Actually, I don’t know how much time passed during Book Two, but I get the feeling that it was not a long period of time. It may have been shorter than two weeks. But we read the section in two weeks, so I’m just…

  • Dunecember: Week 5 (Book 1) Roundup

    How about that post last week, huh? Drew’s comparison of Paul’s upbringing with the molding of details into poured concrete was a very evocative and, I think, apt one. his week we wrapped up the first part of Dune. There was quite a bit of action, and it was certainly thrilling. In classic unfolding drama…

  • Dunecember: Week 4 Roundup

    This was written by my good friend Drew Morgan. Well, this week we spent most of our time watching complicated personal interactions among the Atreides household and company. We seem to finally be starting to fade from inside to outside, to transition from control to chaos, to feather from exercise into execution. If you will…

  • Dunecember: Week 3 Roundup

    The focus this week was entirely the Duke Leto Atreides. We saw him deal with his son, his staff, and the unknown. I can’t help but feel that every moment we’re given with him is, in a sense, pointless. I know he’s going to die, so I feel myself writing him off. He’s pivotal to…

  • Dunecember: Week 2 Roundup

    (by Paul Pope, for DHarbin’s Dune Book Club, which wrapped up this week) This week was full of mostly quiet character moments and bookended by Paul’s father, the Duke Atreides. We saw him in a moment as a father with Paul,  in a hushed moment with Paul’s mother–who we learned is not his wife, though he is also unmarried–and…

  • December 2009 Roundup

    Hey Ryan, what have you been up to lately? A bunch of stuff, actually: Dunecember I started a Dune Book Club for the months of December and January. There’s a blog, a twitter account and some other links. We’re only about 80 ages in at this point, so it is still very easy for you…

  • Dunecember: Week 1 Roundup: First 40 Pages

    ots of information in these first forty-odd pages. We meet our main character: Paul Atreides, the son of a Duke in some kind of future/past (”A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…”–this won’t be the last Star Wars reference). We meet his mother, a mysterious witch-woman, and some of his friends who…