I tried to remember why I picked up Dune, when I did. Dune is of course one of the best books written in the sci-fi genre. I had come across this title many times in the past. This, and Hyperion. Which is another series I need to read at some point. So why did I pick this book?

I think it was the movies. I had started to watch it on HBO at some point, without finishing the movie. And I was interested in what I had seen then. Enough to know what the story was. I belong to the camp of books are always better.

I had just finished ‘The Final Architecture’ series and was looking for a similar book, a space opera of sorts. This fit like a glove.

Have you read Dune?

It is a long book. I had other things to read, and this was on Audible, so there was no time pressure.

I kept putting it off. Not because I wanted to, but because I could. That’s something.

Dune is a space opera. We follow Paul of House Atreides, who accept stewardship of Arrakis, and then pay for it. There was a sense of inevitability to so much of this part. I kept imagining Oscar Issac as the Duke Leto. He felt like a perfect pick in the movie.

There is politics - so much of politics in this movie, the different fiefs wanting to be the ones controlling everything. So much plotting, scheming, back-stabbing. So much fun.

I loved the audio narration of the book. There were different people reading different parts, but there was a main narrator reading the narrator parts and other parts, with subtle changes to his voice.

I enjoyed it when compared to the Audible version of the mysterious affair at styles which read like a TV show.

I loved the sounds of a storm on a desert.