This month it’s our second annual Doof Pick ‘Em! This means that instead of letting you guys pick, we select the book ourselves. After much deliberation, we decided to go with Frank Herbert’s Dune, a book that I shamefully, have never read.
Here’s the summary (if you somehow don’t know what Dune is about):
Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and heir of House Atreides) as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the ‘spice’ melange, the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos. The story explores the complex, multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the forces of the empire confront each other for control of Arrakis.
The live-streamed discussion of Dune will occur on Friday, October 26th at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page. Get the book and get reading! If you’re going to purchase a physical copy through Amazon, we would appreciate it if you do so through our Amazon Affiliate link. The book will cost exactly the same to you, but it will help support Doof! Media.
We’re always open for more Book Club suggestions as well, so if you have a book you’d like us to cover, head on over to our handy Google Form and tell us what you want us to read. Fill it out once, twice or however often you want.
