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[straykat]

I also recommend the book. I should've mentioned in my fantasy milestones, actually, but one forgets with so many books. I second mgagne's opinion. It carries one of my favorite quotes, a fundamental question about the nature of freedom, or its lack:

 

"The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?"

 

And another one of my favorite quotes:

 

"Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing"

 

My only qualm about it is the author seems to be sure of his view.. like he's proselytizing his non-belief or something. Herbert only did that with environmentalism.

 

But I'm still gonna get around to it..the story itself interested me.

[Ieldra]

My only qualm about it is the author seems to be sure of his view.. like he's proselytizing his non-belief or something. Herbert only did that with environmentalism.

Actually, he doesn't. Different views are expressed by different characters. Here's another quote:

 

"There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence."