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The Dune Oddessy
1patheticloser:
I read the series up until Heretics. Now, despite the fact that many frown upon God Emperor, I still rather liked it. Heretics I just kinda gave up on a quarter of the way through. When the only character still present is the hundreth or so clone of a minor character from the first book, things have gone awry IMHO.
But as for the first three, love the shit out of them.
What'd everyone think about the movie/miniseries versions?
David Lynch's is crap? (The Weirding Way is some sorta voice gun?? WTF??)
The Sci-Fi's awesome? (faithful to the books, and better SFX)
Or the opposite:
Lynch's had Sean Young, Sting, Brad Dourif and mutha fuckin' Patrick Stewart.
SciFi's had...um...William Hurt...and...uh...yeah.
Malkster:
Chapterhouse: Dune is one of my all time favourites. The Bene Gesserit have always interested me and I loved how Herbert ended the series.
I actually enjoyed the David Lynch movie far more than the first mini-series. The movie was just fun sci/fi. I felt like the series was over conscious of Dune fans and really struggled to find its feet.
I’ve been really hesitant to pick up his son’s collaborative work. Perhaps this cold dark Winter I’ll journey to the last used book store in the city (bitches internally about big-box-book-sellers) and give it a go. Is the first one in the new series... House Atreides?
Kid Modernist:
Seeing as how all the Frank Herbert Dune books are old by now...
I don't like the ones his son does.
Stifled Dreams:
I tried to get into Dune a few years ago, but it never did much for me. I think I wasn't mature enough, probably. It also didn't help that I had a short attention span as a preteen, I suppose. You guys and Jeph have inspired me to give it another go. I'll read it as soon as I'm more comfortable with my schoolwork, I guess.
jeph:
The first book is the only one worth reading, IMO. If you REALLY liked it you might enjoy the rest of the original series, but they can't compare to that glorious first book.
The "prequel" series is some of the worst tripe I have ever seen committed to written page. Jesus GOD are they awful. If I could beat up Brian Herbert I would.
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