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Pages 1-124
So far, I really enjoy Herbert's writing and word choice. He does use some words I am unfamiliar with, however I have yet to need a dictionary to follow along.
The scene with the mysterious box and gom jabbar is very well-written. The description of unknown pain is particularly fantastic. As an aside, I'm pretty sure my dad misspoke and referred to the box as the gom jabbar the other day.
The lines:
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind," Paul quoted.
feel especially poignant in this time of querying generative AI instead of thinking for oneself.
Piter and Duke Harkonnen are creeps made for each other. I really don't like how Harkonnen talks about little boys! He is aggressively evil, huh?
I have a growing fondness for the Reverend Mother, and the people around Paul. It's going to hurt when the trap is sprung. I am excited for my first taste of Arrakis, though.