Peter Townsend’s Reviews > Dune > Status Update

Oh...my...goodness gracious. No words can express or should express what happened in the 10 pages but much had been alluded to. Any book (in this case “Book I: Dune”) has the standard Acts which present resolution of conflict or ideas, the full book “Dune” in its 3 parts must answer an overarching story line while this first book presented many problems, solved few, and then presented more. This book is great

The dawning comprehension of his being of “the clockwork” is chilling. There is a religion here that controls the outcomes of everyone in this world, he, through his training since birth has become “a Monster.”

Have some Bene Gesirites blinded others in order to put in motion another possibility? This is what Paul sees in “the globe,” the alternate endings that started from a specific point. Strange.

“You’ve matured lately...”

Growth through pain? Birth happens through pain. The pain of this life.

Was the pain in the box the moment we all must realize is the moment of our transformation?

Interesting dialogue between the men coming from the shuttle. It sounds like soldiers on an initial deployment. I can hear the sounds of “Jarhead,” and other films running through my head when I read, “No showers down here. You scrub your ass with sand.”

These soldiers do not understand the value of what they cannot see. Of oil, of Spice.

What is a soldier’s purpose?

I think of chess; I think of pawns.