![]() It's a great, geeky party trick, but back then it was also good gospel for an oft-pummeled kid: To this day, I can recite the Bene Gesserit litany against fear. But when his world is turned upside down - when he leaves his home, loses his father and enters a physically and politically hostile environment - he doesn't whine and cry and brood. He's been trained since birth in combat, diplomacy and general badassery by a cast of geniuses and battle-hardened weirdos with impossible-to-pronounce names. While Holden Caulfield was moping and breaking windows, Paul Atreides ( Dune's protagonist Muad'Dib to the faithful) was equipping me with a junior-high survival guide. There was a hell of a good universe next door, several in fact, and that made my little world a lot more bearable. ![]() At age 12, my life was the tiny, miserable cycle of home, school and the mall. Leigh Bardugo is the author of Shadow and Bone.įrank Herbert's Dune was the first coming-of-age story that resonated with me: drugs, destiny, messiah complexes - it had everything. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dune Author Frank Herbert ![]()
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