I think from now on I'm gonna start writing down my thoughts after I complete a game or book or some other media because I do not like how I struggle to articulate my thoughts when discussing things online and irl.
Anyway glad I got around to reading Dune because it's really damn good. It's been a long time since I had a book draw me in like this did. From the way Herbert writes, the world building, the epigraphs in comparison to the chapter content pushed me to want to continue. I wanted to know what this book wanted to say.
It's odd but sometimes I feel like I messed up by not reading as much as I could in my younger years. Some sort of odd feeling of FOMO(?) comes over me. Throughout the book I wondered what exactly would a younger me make of the themes. How would it had influenced me? Would I have held it such high regards as I do say other books movies and games of my youth?
And while I definitely have my own thoughts on topics of fate and free will, aspects and control of the mind, religion, great man theory, and heroics the the main theme I liked the most was the ecology aspect of it. Maybe because I have been reading about fighting desertification in our own world or maybe because this might be the first piece of media I've read that actually attempted to explain its terraforming with relative realism instead of some sort of macguffin technology. While I don't know if any of the ideas of slowly terraforming the dunes could actually hold up in our reality it feels logical within the story. It's having to follow its own rules and laws. In most media terraforming is done by some far out technology but here it's a process. A multi century long and grueling process and it's just fascinating.
Idk why but when it comes to “classics” or “influential” works there's always this little bit of non-urgency to them for me. I can always come back to it because it will always be semi permeable in popular culture. After reading dune this is for sure a line of thought I need to destroyed. Maybe the classics are classics for a reason and I am a goddamn fool for not reading them sooner.
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