Book · 1990 · Fiction
Dune
#31 of 13,382 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- 57
- people
- 30
- podcasts
- 17
- episodes
- 42
- critical mentions
- 0
The greatest sci-fi novel of all time is Dune.
What they say about it
- Regime change in Iran“regime change in Iran”3
- Greatest sci-fi novel“greatest sci-fi novel”2
- World building2
The best things said about it
If you haven't read it I think everyone should read doom by frank herbert it's just one of the best worlds building fiction books of all time.
Dune by Frank Herbert was really pivotal for me and I think you can see the Echoes of that in my first Trilogy in terms of this kind of teenage Messiah.
Literally Frank Herbert's Dune is based on a regime change in Iran.
I remember I've been watching some wonderful I you know, I'm so excited to watch Dune because I remember reading That was one of You know those books you read in high school that kind of changed the way you look at things and like illuminated you to stuff? That Dune was one of those books. You know, I thought.
Things like Dune, as Sean pointed out, it's world-building. It's creating a world; it's creating a whole thing that's so hard to get right.
Josh Brolin SmartLess · Mar 2024 I'll be an obnoxious like evangelist for Dune to anyone who'll listen.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
30 people who brought it up
- Ryan Hall3 mentions · 2 recs
Duncan Trussell3 mentions · 1 rec
Lex Fridman2 mentions · 1 rec
Tim Ferriss2 mentions · 1 rec- Dan Kokotov1 mention · 1 rec
- Kevin Rose1 mention · 1 rec
- Leigh Bardugo1 mention · 1 rec
- Tiago Forte1 mention · 1 rec
- Josh Brolin6 mentions
- Gilbert Cruz4 mentions
Joe Rogan4 mentions- Denis Villeneuve2 mentions
Why people recommend it
Dune by Frank Herbert is a landmark science fiction masterpiece set on the desert planet Arrakis that explores complex themes of empire, religion, and resource control. A guest on Timcast IRL argued that the novel is fundamentally based on historical regime change and oil extraction in Iran, drawing parallels between spice control and geopolitical conflicts. Leigh Bardugo shared on The Book Review that the book was pivotal to her development as a writer and heavily influenced her own work with its teenage Messiah trope, while Lex Fridman quoted lines from the novel during an episode sign-off. Tim Ferriss recommended the first book on Modern Wisdom as essential reading for studying leadership, and Tiago Forte included it on the same podcast among his top mainstream science fiction recommendations. Additionally, a Timcast IRL super chat sparked a brief discussion praising the overarching seven-book series, and Dan Kokotov hailed the novel on the Lex Fridman Podcast as the greatest science fiction book of all time.
Every mention
Ryan Hall and i think dune would be an unbelievably well written in my opinion for to run 3
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“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game like you mentioned”
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“and i think dune would be an unbelievably well written in my opinion for to run”
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“i'll be an obnoxious like evangelist for dune to anyone who'll listen”
Duncan Trussell the book Doom by Frank Herbert is incredible 3
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“No, the books are so good, the first one, honestly the second one, I struggle with, but the first one is, wait a minute, what book? Dune?”
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“the book Doom by Frank Herbert is incredible”
Discussed
“I'm reading this great book Dune by Frank Herbert it's so good”
Lex Fridman And now let me leave you with some words from Frank Herbert in "Dune". 2
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“And now let me leave you with some words from Frank Herbert in "Dune".”
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“we don't know how to do that dune navigators know how to do it dude navigators yeah yeah folding space basically making wormholes”
Tim Ferriss but I think the first dune for instance you want to study leadership the first dune 2
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“I mean if you look at say York's Dune which failed you have guer and all these incredible people involved”
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“but I think the first dune for instance you want to study leadership the first dune”
Dan Kokotov the greatest sci-fi novel of all time is dune 1
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“the greatest sci-fi novel of all time is dune”
Kevin Rose if you haven't read it I think everyone should read doom by frank herbert it's just one of the best worlds… 1
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“if you haven't read it I think everyone should read doom by frank herbert it's just one of the best worlds building fiction books of all time”
Leigh Bardugo Dune by Frank Herbert was really pivotal for me and I think you can see the Echoes of that in my first Tril… 1
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“Dune by Frank Herbert was really pivotal for me and I think you can see the Echoes of that in my first Trilogy in terms of this kind of teenage Messiah”
Tiago Forte Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I d… 1
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“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
Josh Brolin I don't want to rain on your parade, but just let me know if it's now or 40 minutes. I can talk about Dune,… 6
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“I don't want to rain on your parade, but just let me know if it's now or 40 minutes. I can talk about Dune, because I have 800,000 questions. You can... you can about Dune anytime you want!”
Discussed
“You know, if you do Dune with a certain director, it's going to be a certain thing! Somebody who understands what takes to use, whatever! And then if you do Dune with Denny VNV, it's going to... you know, the... the foundation the... you know, the worst, it's going to be is still really good!”
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“Okay, so wait, so AR is the sand real? Can I talk about Dune? Can I talk about...”
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“But I mean, what he's accomplished in Dune is like, it's hard to get the tone and the feel and the actors and the script and the sets, and just everything works perfectly. It creates a world that we haven't seen. Yeah, it's very collaborative.”
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“So it became a very, very collaborative process. So that's what I get from Dune. Denny, my good, good friend now, but he's a guy who I would work on anything with because that kind of collaborative effort is the top.”
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“But things like Dune, as Sean pointed out, it's world-building. It's creating a world; it's creating a whole thing that's so hard to get right. Yeah, no kidding.”
Gilbert Cruz If you've only ever seen sort of the new Dune movies and you've never read the book, you actually don't hav… 4
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“If you've only ever seen sort of the new Dune movies and you've never read the book, you actually don't have this context that happens in the book, which is these events take place thousands of years after humans have risen up against artificial intelligence”
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“In 2017, we asked you, "What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?" And you said, "Dune by Frank Herbert."”
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“If you are going to Mars and you can only bring three books with you, would one of them be Dune? Yeah. Okay.”
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“at this point Herbert wrote six novels he wrote Dune and then there are five sequels Dune Messiah children of Dune God emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune”
Joe Rogan Dune no I didn't read that Frank Herbert it's one of the best sci-fi d i I think I read I think I read one… 4
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“apparently the guy wrote Dune sent a copy to tolken before he published it really and tolken didn't like it”
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“Dune no I didn't read that Frank Herbert it's one of the best sci-fi d i I think I read I think I read one of those”
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“Dune by Frank Herbert stop looking at me John Rin”
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“Dune by Frank Herbert! Shut up!”
Denis Villeneuve recently I I've been more drown towards books that uh um all books that I've have been with me since a long… 2
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“recently I I've been more drown towards books that uh um all books that I've have been with me since a long time like the Dune books the books that I read when I was a teenager”
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“But um, but recently I've been more drawn towards uh books that uh, um, I all books that I have been with me since a long time! Like the Dune books, the books that I read when I was a teenager!”
Aaron Bastani A good book, a good novel to think of this all through is the is the book June I think which offers a reall… 1
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“A good book, a good novel to think of this all through is the is the book June I think which offers a really interesting prism.”
Alexandra Alter a very beloved classic Sci-fi novel that's already been made into a movie and it's being made again and the… 1
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“a very beloved classic Sci-fi novel that's already been made into a movie and it's being made again and then you can say it you can say it Dune”
Buck Sexton you know there is a quote from Frank Herbert who wrote Dune which I actually think is probably the greatest… 1
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“you know there is a quote from Frank Herbert who wrote Dune which I actually think is probably the greatest sci-fi novel of all time actually made a pretty good movie of it recently too”
Cory Sandhagen there's a dune quote I just got done reading Dune 1
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“there's a dune quote I just got done reading Dune”
Critical Drinker probably Dune two I'll be interested to watch that because I very much enjoyed the first one and uh yeah I… 1
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“probably Dune two I'll be interested to watch that because I very much enjoyed the first one and uh yeah I think that's uh that's hopefully gonna be good you know I've read the book and uh and loved it like as a teenager so it's it's nice to see a good adaptation on screen”
Jimmy Donaldson I play this board game a lot called Dune. Whatever. Like a big nerd. But there's like this one it's called… 1
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“I play this board game a lot called Dune. Whatever. Like a big nerd. But there's like this one it's called Dune. Yeah, yeah, it's a recreation. What's funny, I had even seen the movies when I started playing the game. I didn't realize there was movies. I didn't even know there was books.”
Laird Hamilton when I was really young she read me Dune she read me you know Jonathan Livingston she read me all these cra… 1
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“when I was really young she read me Dune she read me you know Jonathan Livingston she read me all these crazy crazy books growing up”
Michael Colyar there's a movie called Dune oh I know it not that new version though the original one from the the real Her… 1
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“there's a movie called Dune oh I know it not that new version though the original one from the the real Herbert from the real book and in Dune uh they're all looking for the Spice the spice melange it gives you the ability to fold space to go anywhere in the universe without moving that's what mushrooms are”
Michael Malice well when Frank herberts had this great quote in Dune he goes when I'm weaker than you I asked from freedom… 1
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“well when Frank herberts had this great quote in Dune he goes when I'm weaker than you I asked from freedom because that is according to your principles and when I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles exct”
Michael Shellenberger I mean do you remember you read Dune 1
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“I mean do you remember you read Dune”
Robert Evans and obviously the the thing that the Warhammer people are are inspired by is like the butlerian Jihad and d… 1
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“and obviously the the thing that the Warhammer people are are inspired by is like the butlerian Jihad and dune which is the the more Artful version of that story with less Orcs um which makes it inferior in my mind but I do love Dune”
Sam Altman There are things like this in sci-fi. Dune is an example where people say this is the only way to prevent t… 1
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“There are things like this in sci-fi. Dune is an example where people say this is the only way to prevent the rogue AI.”
Scott Galloway I remember I've been watching some wonderful I you know, I'm so excited to watch Dune because I remember re… 1
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“I remember I've been watching some wonderful I you know, I'm so excited to watch Dune because I remember reading That was one of You know those books you read in high school that kind of changed the way you look at things and like illuminated you to stuff? That Dune was one of those books. You know, I thought”
Scott Nolan So, what I brought is a replica of the Thumper from the Dune movie if you've seen it. 1
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“So, what I brought is a replica of the Thumper from the Dune movie if you've seen it.”
Thomas Tull when we secured the rights to dune years ago it was i was over the moon because it's i love the book i i lo… 1
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“when we secured the rights to dune years ago it was i was over the moon because it's i love the book i i love the the entire world um that uh that is dune”
Tim Pool that's from Dune that's – Frank Herbert – the author of dude 1
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“that's from Dune that's – Frank Herbert – the author of dude”
Tim Urban I've heard Dune I've never read Dune but I've heard that Dune goes real. So my problem is I just stuck with… 1
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“I've heard Dune I've never read Dune but I've heard that Dune goes real. So my problem is I just stuck with the first one. I read the first Dune. It was good.”
Tyler Cowen so it's like the Dune world with spice but it now it's electricity 1
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“so it's like the Dune world with spice but it now it's electricity”
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“There's a great book about what what he's talking about uh about the the Shah, the Anglo oil companies, and it's called Dune by Frank Herbert. Spice. The spice. Spice must flow. extraction of the spice. The spice is the oil. No, so literally Frank Herbert's Dune is based on a regime change in Iran.”
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Discussed
“If we don't mention the butlerian jihad from Dune, this is in Frank Herbert's Dune.”
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“There's actually a great book that's written all about um regime change in Iran and uh sort of the previous regime change operations the US has been involved in and it's called Dune by Frank Herbert.”
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“There's actually a great book that's written all about um regime change in Iran and uh sort of the previous regime change operations the US has been involved in and it's called Dune by Frank Herbert.”
Discussed
“Uh, so I got into a little dust-up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because we had both seen Dune! We went to the world premiere, and I didn't hang out with him there, but we saw each other!”
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“All I want to say about Dune...”
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“i thought there's gonna be something like an analogous to you know antifa no it's just such a great book that all these i guess you're called harry potter's great doom read dune it is political”
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“love it when ian brings up dune it is my ultimate favorite series it's an interesting look behind the curtain of government in space”
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“hey tim ian is right the entire seven book dune series is amazing truly great storytelling that's right i only read the first one”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (20: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“So, you realize in the sci-fi novel Dune, they've got it's another planet, of course, and everything's different and they're flying machines whose wings duplicate what a dragonfly wings do.”
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“And this is this reminds me I'm sure it reminds a lot of us of the Dune universe and the longstanding ban on thinking machines or Terminator 2.”
Passing
“I feel like it's inevitable. I think we all agree that unless we reach an inflection point similar to the background of the Dune universe when there was a butlerian jihad against thinking machines.”
Passing
“but to maybe you could make the argument for us to really understand that we would need to do neutropics and cognitive enhancing substances just like the Mntats in the Dune series.”
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“It's almost like Dune in Dune the Ben jates were breeding the [ __ ] people right right right that that's that”
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“this is not Dune where they have the butlerian Jihad against thinking machines”
Passing
“I mean do you remember you read Dune remember the solution from Dune what was the they just ban they banned it”
Passing
“Now, let me leave you with some words from Frank Herbert in 'Dune': 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”
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“it makes me think of Paul the main character in The Dune movies in the book”
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“It's like that scene in Dune where he eats his tooth and releases that poison gas. That's right, get better soon, JCal.”
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“Johnny Betts from Private Eye, Taylor Rolator from 21 Jump Street, you might know him as Glenn from Finish Line, um, you might know him as Jack Passion from WKA Road, probably not, but you might know him more as Gurney HCK from Dune or Thanos from Avengers: Endgame or or Dan White for which he was nominated for an”
Passing
“So as a kid there were books like The Neverending Story, and then later Dune, for instance. Science fiction.”
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“So many of the most influential tech weirdos in the country’s entire vision of reality is based on misinterpreting Dune, like yeah, that's what fiction is for, but okay.”
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“like sort of like the um guild ships and dune like they're these giant ships that kind of kind of move people around”
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“what's going on in the world all around me to continue to lean on on dune that i don't have uh that i don't”
Passing
“and now let me leave you with some words from frank herbert in dune i must not fear”
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“i feel like dune i've never read dune i've never read dune i have to read it”
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“and actually that brings me to another dune”
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“When you believe something is right or uh when you believe something is right or wrong true or false you believe the assumptions assumptions in the words which express the arguments such assumptions are often full of holes but remain most precious to the convinced dune”
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“The character in Dune by Frank Herbert. It was the nickname given by the Fremen to Paul Atreides.”