I'm surprised you haven't read Dune - aside from the fact that it was the subject of one of the most sublime dead-pan one liners I have ever heard from your husband, or indeed from any man* - it strikes me as a book that tackles many subjects you would be really interested in: politics, skullduggery and politics, religion and politics (and the conflict between its institutionalized and grass roots forms) and ecology polticis... and also politics. You get the idea. It really is one of those books that you think is terribly over-rated until you read it. Sadly, I don't feel anything else Herbert ever wrote lived up to it. Without wanting to lay it on too thick, I think if you intend to keep writing books along the lines of the Dolphin Book, you owe it to yourself to check out Dune.
*"So I'm thinking of getting the Dune roleplaying game," he said, fixing me with a penetrating stare, "then, we too, could play a dangerous game." I promise you, if you know Herbert's writing style it's Ethel-Merman-and-Jimmy-Durante-singing-Kate-Bush funny.
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Date: 2006-11-15 03:31 am (UTC)*"So I'm thinking of getting the Dune roleplaying game," he said, fixing me with a penetrating stare, "then, we too, could play a dangerous game." I promise you, if you know Herbert's writing style it's Ethel-Merman-and-Jimmy-Durante-singing-Kate-Bush funny.