Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Dune by Frank Herbert

107 reviews

siblingsofthevoid's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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whorl_studio's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Strong and complex plot with brilliant world building… but I’m so glad that the Villeneuve film adaptation has fixed the the representation of the female characters, away from sexualised / infantilised / misogynistic tropes, creating depth and agency to the individual female plot lines.
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lonelylooper's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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emeraldzak's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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fin_pilot's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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kergo's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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jesselopod's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This is an interesting story, very political, and I can certainly see how it greatly influenced other works that came after it. I did find some things really hard to appreciate. Firstly, and perhaps this is of its time, the villainous characters were really portrayed as evil through largely physical traits. Fatphobia, eunuch's, and pedophilia (though in a way which continually demonised the homosexuality and not the fact that they were minors as the issue) were used as ways to portray the character rather than their actions. I found that incredible uncreative and it frustrated me when so much attention was put into the creation of so many other characters. Secondly, the internal struggled the characters faced seemed to be very repetitive and never really reached a resolution. 

The audiobook version I listened to was atrociously performed. The accents were inconsistent from the narrator, and it jumped randomly between voice acting from American actors and the British narrator doing totally different characterisation. It made it really hard to connect with the story. Is the villain a bumbling wheezy idiot or are they a deep voiced conniving political mastermind? I think they should have either had it all acted or all narrated but not both, and the narrator needed to work out how he was playing different characters. There were also moments where it felt like the story skipped, but I have no idea if that is because it is an abridged version or not. It’s a good tale, but the voice acting really didn’t do it any favours. 
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jester_k's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging slow-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this mainly because my Dad loved it when he read it as a teen. But the story was so slow-moving that it didn't grip me and I didn't find the glossary til right at the end so a lot of things went way over my head. The Harkonnens are depicted as disgustingly evil but the fact they have slaves and enjoy murder and rape is put on a level with the fact that the Baron is... just fat. It's constantly focused on to show how gross he is and I struggled to enjoy the rest of the book with this deep-seated fatphobia. 

Also, Paul starts the book being kind and compassionate and ends up becoming an awful tyrant so I stopped being able to root for him at all. I'm sure that's part of the point but it didn't leave me with any characters to enjoy the perspective of. Then he won and it was mostly just depressing.
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mbrogs2024's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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roxcollector's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I can’t believe no one told me they shit and piss themselves in the stillsuits and I had to read that with my own two eyes 😭😩
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