Dune, p41; Chess, 1

It is hard for me to put the book down. I remember so little of the book but here and there I get glimpses of suspenseful memories and so I want to plow through. I haven't.
I love this chess game that's being played. How many moves ahead does each party already see? I am also intrigued by the juxtaposition of the two heirs, both smart and wise beyond their years, yet still so obviously children with their know-it-all attitudes.
What do you think of the gom-jabber? Is overcoming pain -- emotion? -- really all that seperates humanity from the animal kingdom? So far that makes only Jessica and Paul human for sure, and a few characters decidedly animal: The Baron is obese, his Mentat is addicted to spice, Dr. Yueh will commit crimes for love. I wonder where Feyd-Rautha will fall, and how.
Why do the Bene-Gesserit customarily only test females?

Success! A Book.

DUNE

The Book: ACE Books paperback, ISBN 0-441-17271-7

The Cheat: Spark

Top 10 Others + 1 of My Own

Rankings:

1 - dune, god of small things
3 - wildseed, one hundred years …, stranger in a strange land, lady chatterley's lover, lullaby or choke
8 - freakonomics, atlas shrugged, the second sex
11 - native speaker, the world is flat, the worthing saga, slaughterhouse five, the sun also rises, the good earth, genome, shantaram, catch 22, mao II, guns germs and steel, a confederacy of dunces

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Alex
freakonomics
wildseed
Lullaby or Choke
lady chatterley's lover
The World is Flat
dune
altas shrugged
God of Small Things
One Hundred Years of Solitude
stranger in a strange land

Anna
Dune
Stranger in a Strange Land
Native Speaker
Wild Seed
The Worthing Saga
Slaughterhouse-Five
Atlas Shrugged
Sun Also Rises
Lady Chatterley's Lover
God of Small Things
Lullaby or Choke

Rubi
The Good Earth
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Watership Down
Shantaram
Catch 22
The Second Sex
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Genome
Freakonomics
Dune
God of Small Things

Vanessa
God of Small Things
Dune
Lullaby or Choke
Mao II
stranger in a strange land
wildseed
guns germs and steel
the second sex
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Native Speaker
A Confederacy of Dunces

Let's Try This Again

Alex's List
(books she hasn't read)
1 stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlen)
2 the grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck)
3 we the living (Ayn Rand)
4 a house for mr. biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
5 battlefield earth (L. Ron Hubbard)
6 the way of all flesh (Samuel Butler)
7 moonheart (Charles de Lint)
8 dream on monkey mountain (Derek Walcott)
9 lady chatterley's lover (D. H. Lawrence)
10 the sound and the fury (William Faulkner)

(books she has)
wildseed (Octavia Butler)
dune (Frank Herbert)
shantaram (Gregory Roberts)
the worthing saga (Orson Scott Card)
the second sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
genome (Matt Ridley)
freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner)
guns germs and steel (Jared Diamond)
east of eden (john steinbeck)

Anna's List
1 Dune (Frank Herbert)
2 Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
3 Lullaby or Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
5 Mao II (Don DeLillo)
6 Couples (John Updike)
7 Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Daniel J. Flynn)
8 the Rabbit series (John Updike)
9 White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
10 Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Rubi's List
1 God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
2 Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie)
3 Tracks, (Louise Erdrich), and any other of her books
4 The Places in Between (Rory Stewart)
5 Madam Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
6 The World is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman)
7 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
8 Lolita, by Nabokov9 Native Speaker (Chang Rae-Lee)
10 In the Shadow of Man (Jane Goodall)

Vanessa's List
1 The Satanic Verses (Rushdie, Salman )
2 Ragtime (Doctorow, E. L)
3 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez, Gabriel García)
4 Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph)
5 A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole, Kennedy)
6 The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon, Thomas)
7 Still Life with Woodpecker (Robbins, Tom)
8 Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, Ernest)
9 Sophie's World (Gaarder, Jostein)
10 Watership Down (Adams, Richard)
11 Atlas Shrugged (Rand, Ayn)
12 The Life of Pi (Martel, Yan)
13 War and Peace (Tolstoy, Leo)
14 Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlein, Robert)
15 The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas, Alexandre)
16 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce, James)
17 The Good Earth (Buck, Pearl S.)
18 Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, Kurt)
19 The Idiot (Dostoevsky, Fyodor)