> > Cor"If RinkWorks had a required reading list, 'Dune' should probably be on it. And it's also the coolest book that involves mind-expanding drugs as a major plot element that i've ever read"rino
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> About five years or so ago, I finished reading the entire Dune series. My interest in the books was spurred by my seeing the movie for the first time, in 1993 (I think?) Although it is a strange and hard to understand motion picture, it intrigued me. Of course, reading the novel helped me understand the movie somewhat better.
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> I found that the farther along I got in the series, the more disappointed I was. Dune is an excellent, fascinating, and gripping novel, and so is Dune Messiah. Children of Dune was very good. While there many things about God Emperor of Dune that I liked, it just didn't hold my attention like the first three books did. I thought the books went downhill from there. I only got through the last two because I wanted to finish what I had started.
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> Perhaps part of the problem is that the last three books in the series are so far removed chronologically from the first three. God Emperor takes place about 1,000 years after the preceding novel, and then the last two books happen something like 3,000 years after that! On one hand, the long periods of time made it interesting, to see how the universe, the empire, etc. had evolved from the beginning of the saga. Some things changed, some things remained the same. But on the other hand, I was disappointed when I became interested in certain characters and wanted to see what happened next in their lives, only to get to the next book and POOF, it's thousands of years later and they are dead and gone. I guess Herbert tried to resolve this issue by having one constant character throughout all the novels, Duncan Idaho. But it just didn't work for me.
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> Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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> Gri"Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck RULED"shny

I have never even picked up the book, so I can't comment on that. I did see the film a couple of times, however, that has been quite a while. What I do remember: that big fat guy who had to be levitated around, they did a good job of making him about as repulsive as possible. The desert suits were pretty cool. I thought the entire concept of a weapon that is powered by specific words was pretty inventive.

(There's nothing quite like the feeling you get when you post to a thread that you have barely any knowledge of, and contribute about the same.)

What was up with Sting in that Jetson's diaper thing?
I've never been able to shake that image.

Tra "He who controls the spice, controls that other thingy, too." nio