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Hey everyone, it's Ramtin here. So if you've been listening to the show recently, which I hope you all have, you know, we've been running episodes as part of our

Winter Book Club series. And it just so happens that I was recently a guest on another NPR show

where I got to talk about an actual book I really, really love. So we're going to share that

conversation with you all today. Here we go.

I saw myself projected into the future, or it felt like a world that somebody like me could live in.

You're listening to Books We've Loved from NPR, the book show where we reread old favorites and tell you why they still matter today.

I'm Andrew Limbaung.

I'm B.A. Parker.

This is a big one.

This is a hefty.

This is a hefty.

This is a flipping through this right here.

Andrew, it's so much. It's so much.

And it's our guest's fault. And, i did it i 617 pages uh-huh is that not

counting the appendices and all that i oh hmm okay so like almost 700 pages yeah who do we have with us that we can... Thank for this. We have here, Romitina Arablui from NPR's ThruLine. What's up? Hey, how you doing? Thank you for this assignment. We're about to get through this heavy book. The book we're reading today. In many ways, it's heavy. The book we brought us today is Frank Herbert's Duneune. Woo. Yes. All day. All day. I've been waiting. I've been waiting decades for this. This is bizarre. It's all going to pour out here. Okay. I've been waiting for years to talk about this book, which I would tell you that, and Yolga might be completely disturbed by this, had a major part in building my worldview. No, I believe it. What? Yes. Yeah. How old did you? I was 13. Okay. I was in middle school when I first read this. Reading came late for me. I struggled with it a little bit. Uh-huh. I mean, partly it's because of my second language my second language. I moved here. I just got out of

being a toddler when I moved to the U.S. and so it was hard to learn English. And so I kind of was

delayed a little bit in reading. But once I started reading, I really got to sci-fi books. And I had a teacher

who was like, hey, if you really want to get into some deep stuff. Dune.

So I read it and I became obsessed. I read it like twice in a summer. For listeners who haven't read it, I'm just going to run through. I read this quick synopsis. We've been doing these quick like, like, you know, summaries of the book. This is by far the longest synopsis. Oh. But here, I'm going to try to get through it. And this is, here's, here's, here's Dune summed up.

It goes, so Paul Atrades is a 15 year old boy. But I'm going to try to get through it. Here's Dune summed up.

It goes, so Paul Atrates is a 15-year-old boy next in line to lead the Atreides family who they rule over their water planet Caledan, right?

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