veganes_hack started reading Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #6)
Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #6)
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the …
A dense, multi-layered story that opens up a window into golden age era Britain, painting a vivid picture of the colonialist zeitgeist with all the casual and flagrant racism, exploitation and slavery that comes with it. In particular, it highlights the critical role of intellectual institutions (by example of Oxford) and uses language as stand-in example of how foreign culture is imported and in turn used to opress the colonised countries while further strengthening the existing power structures. To use a coming-of-age "wizard" story as the backdrop is quite a genial move, making the whole subject matter all the more relatable on a very personal level. This book manages to educate about many different subjects that would normally be quite boring to learn about in such a fascinating, thrilling, moving way - I could barely manage to put the book down every once in a while.
