I really loved the movie by Denis Villeneuve and in the past I already watched the older one by David Lynch, so it was about time that I read the book from where everything started. I borrowed it from my local library and, surprisingly, I read through all of its 500 pages in about a week! It was a superb sci-fi book (even if I consider it at least partially a fantasy saga).

The interesting thing about this book is the great portion regarding the ecology of this new planet, Arrakis, where most of the land is covered in sand: everybody still want to own this place since the whole place is covered in Melange, a very precious substance used for intergalactic-travel. Nobody asks himself where this Melange comes from. Nobody asks himself if the native population, the Fremen, knows anything about it. Everybody is interested in making money out of it: until the house of the Atreides are given the ownership of the planet; now things are about to change.

In today world of climatic changes, this novel is more actual than ever: the planet where the story is placed is strangled by the desert and water is treated as gold. For example, anybody that dares to adventure outside the walls of the spare cities is provided with an overalls that recycle liquids from the body (sweat etc.) to make them drinkable. And Frank Herbert describes all of this in a very precise way, making you feel the heat of the planet. I highly recommend this book to every sci-fi fan (but if you are one you probably already read it): it's the first part of a 6-books-saga, but it's probably the best one