The Dragon in the Sea: 06/14/05
Last night I finished reading Dragon
in the Sea by Frank Herbert (1956). Dragon in the Sea is quite a departure from Dune. It's more akin to The Santaroga
Barrier (my favorite Herbert book) in Herbert starts with a few ordinary events and then
turns them into psychological dramas. For this book, he goes one step further and leaves
off the chapter divisions to create a literary claustrophobia to match the claustrophobic
conditions of the submarine. Some of the psychobabble to explain the captain's behavior was
a bit silly but I'll forgive it for the otherwise enjoyable thriller with science fiction
trappings.
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