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Malkster:
I agree.  I think fucking “literature majors” (of which I am one) and pretentious “don’t talk to me about sci/fi and fantasy as real books” scags (of which I am not) who hammer down on “genre” writers should stfu and read Herbert.  The man combined sociology, religion, economics, psychology, and other shit into his books like nobody else I’ve ever read.

I think it would have been interesting if Herbert and Asimov would have lived into The Internets phase of human existence.  Both were deep thinkers who really took no shit.

Of course they probably would have despaired of humanity with all the dong chatter…

Rizzo:
I really enjoyed the first three, liked the 4-6 and haven't bothered with the prequels cause they look tripe.
You should all listen to Shai Hulud. Hardcore band. Not particularly related to Dune but they do have a couple of songs about it. See if you can find them.

dessa:
shihad was named after the butlerian jihad in dune, as they are kiwis and watched the movie and thought it was spelt shihad.

smophie:

--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---Seeing as how all the Frank Herbert Dune books are old by now...

I don't like the ones his son does.
--- End quote ---


Yeah all his originals are what I was referring to as the old ones.. the new ones are his son's ones.

To whoever complained about the characters not staying the same, that was part of what I believed was Frank Herbert's vision. The characters don't stay the same because time moved on his universe, as it does in reality.

I'm actually just going through and re reading the old ones. But I don't think the ones his son did are bad, they stick to what they know about the old motivations and character qualities of the characters, plus integrate a few other storylines. I believe they don't have the same finesse of writing as the older ones, but they are still quite alright I think...

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