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Digestions on Dune

May 15, 2009 01:33

I finally finished the original six book series, plus Hunters and Sandworms.

( Minor spoilers? )

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ghola_tleilaxu May 15 2009, 09:05:42 UTC

I've read the Dune Prelude and the first book of Jihad... and I'm never gonna read any of this bullshit. It's just NOT DUNE. For me Dune Saga ended after Chapterhouse. I don't care about BH/KA fanfiction.

wytchcroft May 15 2009, 10:40:36 UTC

damn straight:)

friggasgirl May 15 2009, 13:34:03 UTC

Awful Awful Awful

wytchcroft May 15 2009, 14:06:07 UTC

let's just hope they have no input in the new Dune movie -
although every bit of news on that has made me ill so far...

wytchcroft May 15 2009, 10:41:06 UTC

thanks for this post - i enjoyed reading it:)

cairde_luis May 15 2009, 12:37:41 UTC

First off -- I know the feeling about the books and about Frank Herbert. He was genius! The books spoke to me in ways I never knew books could, and influenced the way I think, if not my whole life ( ... )

wytchcroft May 15 2009, 14:02:16 UTC

For epic scale and decnt universe creation and good writing - check out Iain M. Banks.

ghola_tleilaxu May 15 2009, 14:36:05 UTC

Why do you have to read them, if you don't like them? :)

And about 'what do I read now?' - Did you read Dan Simmons' "Hyperion"?

douglasonlj May 15 2009, 20:07:17 UTC

I have, and the entire quartet was a damned good read. Highly recommend it to anyone whose reading this. I'm currently reading the Song of Ice and Fire series and while it's not as multilayered as Dune is, the world is very well thought out and the story interests me.

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uberaxl May 15 2009, 20:19:40 UTC

lovely post, thank you for taking the time to lay out what many of us are thinking but didn't get around to posting.

I didn't hate the prequesls, but I certainly didn't love them. On their own they are examples of generic science fiction, and not particularly well-written. I'd grade them as a C (if I was a school teacher).
The way that they fail utterly is in comparison to 'real' Dune. Actually, anything would fail in comparison to Frank Herbert's Dune (although the reccommendation for you to read Dan Simmons Hyperion series is entirely valid, I suggest you go and get a copy ASAP, it's epic and wonderful and will move you in all the same ways Dune did.).

rawthorne July 26 2009, 21:09:41 UTC

You put into words what I'd been thinking for a long time. The prequels/sequels reduce Dune to a Terminator clone. It's all about the machines, an enemy so foreign no reader can relate to it, which is, in my opinion, exactly what the original Dune was filled with. You could relate to Corrino and Atreides and Fremen alike. Who the hell can say 'oh I genuinely want the super-computer to win'?