Think Week 2021: If this is your first time reading Dune, a big head's up - depending on your edition, THERE IS A GLOSSARY IN THE BACK. This will make your first time reading MUCH more enjoyable.

So yeah, I completely missed that "Terminology of the Imperium" in the Table of Contents was meant to say "Use This Dictionary So You'll Understand the First 100 Pages of This Book". I'm actually pretty proud of myself for getting through sentences like "We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans...perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach" without ANY context. I just kept muttering to myself, I'm sure this will all make sense eventually... and it did!

It seems clear that Herbert feared that a world without water was a distinct possibility in the future. It's kind of crazy thinking about that now, when we are at the precipice of too much water from our melting icecaps. Not sure if climate change was really that big of an issue in 1965, but it seems to have worked out for Herbert to focus on it for the setting of this novel.

Kudos to Herbert for writing a book that passes the Bechdel test in 1965, even with a male protagonist! See, gentlemen!? It's not that hard! That being said, there were a couple of moments that could have used a more emotional touch (um, [redacted]'s son just dies and we don't even pause?!) Also, there was an awful lot of villain monologuing to suffer through in this book.

It was a great world that Herbert built, and a satisfying conclusion to a sci-fi adventure. Overall, I'm pumped to watch Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya fuck around in the desert hopefully sometime this year!