Dune

[trempnvt]

So I've owned this book for a long time, but the first time I picked it up, I didn't get past the fourth page. Last Friday night, I tried again, and suddenly I was hooked.

I only find time to read printed books on Shabbat, so I'm only two-thirds of the way done, but I think I love this book.

Comments

[zachkessin]

Love the Icon!

[trempnvt]

Thanks!

Wow, this post is really a great opportunity to break out the geeky math/computers icons.

Sorry to break it to you but ...

[joshbrown]

Stress on the words so far. Unfortunately, the rest of the series is not as good as the first few books.

Re: Sorry to break it to you but ...

[trempnvt]

Do you mean the sequels aren't good, or the last sub-book of the first book isn't good? Because if it's the latter, i'll be really disappointed. I can deal with sucky sequels; I've read Ender's Game after all.

Re: Sorry to break it to you but ...

[joshbrown]

If I recall correctly, the first three were good, but the four was less, and when I found myself forcing myself to read the fifth, I decided I had had enough. And I didn't even try the sixth.

[adidi]

explain the icon? i feel stupid and liberal artsy. pc i'm writing a paper on you that is due in like, six hours, ew. your name is Tzila. I know, weird.

[trempnvt]

Here's Wikipedia's explanation...the gist of it is that alef-efes (or, I guess, aleph null if you speak English) is the number of items in the set of all whole numbers, or all natural numbers...something that is infinite, but still countable (like, 1, 2, 3, etc. ...as opposed to all real numbers, which goes 0.00001, 0.00002, 0.00003, and I already skipped an infinite number of numbers in the gaps).

How exciting! Tzila's a nice name.

[trempnvt]

Oh so if the joke isn't clear...if you take a finite number of numbers and erase them from the set of natural numbers (for example), the size of the set you have left hasn't changed...it's still infinite-but-countable, aka alef-efes.

[iggylani]

love the icon.
i havent read dune. i have a friend that used to rave about it though. perhaps i can borrow it from you at some point.