No, that's him
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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-t - May 15, 2020 8:42:00 am PDT #2655 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - May 15, 2020 10:12:59 am PDT #2656 of 3424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
huh ... I don't think I read any of the sequels to Dune ... I remember waiting for my father's ... Analog? whichever magazine it appeared in ... to arrive so I could read the next installment. (Yes, I am old.)
Dana - May 15, 2020 10:20:06 am PDT #2657 of 3424
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I read up to the point where people started turning into sandworms and then went "WTF?" and noped out.
-t - May 15, 2020 10:29:57 am PDT #2658 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read through everything actually written by Frank Herbert. I tried one book written by his son (Brian? I forget) and oh my god it was unreadable so that was the end of that.
I do feel like every sequel was kind of "everything you liked in the previous book(s)? Forget that!" but it worked for me
Calli - May 15, 2020 10:42:05 am PDT #2659 of 3424
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember waiting for my father's ... Analog? whichever magazine it appeared in ... to arrive so I could read the next installment.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it was Analog. My dad got those, too. He had issues going back to the 1950s. One time 12-year-old me complained about not having anything to read, and he opened cupboard containing them and said, "Here you go." And thus another geek was born.
Thanks for the Death of Stalin rec, Juliana. I've just added it to my Netflix queue.
Toddson - May 15, 2020 10:57:57 am PDT #2660 of 3424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I remember the cover - the one with the magnificent illustration of the sandworm (this was back when the magazine was larger). I think I have that, since I have my father's books stashed in the back of a closet.
Consuela - May 15, 2020 11:15:46 am PDT #2661 of 3424
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read the first three, but after Leto II turned into a sandworm, I was done.
And really I have no desire to reread: I suspect they won't hold up.
Still, I remember them fondly: I met my best friend in junior high because she was reading Children of Dune.
DXMachina - May 15, 2020 5:27:13 pm PDT #2662 of 3424
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Never liked the sequels, although I did read the first two. Didn't finish the God Emperor one. To me they didn't even seem to be the same universe, like Herbert figured he had done so well with Dune that he could foist whatever on his adoring fans, no matter how ridiculous it was.
Katerina Bee - May 15, 2020 8:18:42 pm PDT #2663 of 3424
Herding cats for fun
I enjoyed the Brian Herbert trashy additions to the Duniverse, even though the writing wasn't all that and some of the plot points were disturbing or preposterous. I think it was all about getting a little backstory and spending time in The Dune Worlds. I hated every minute of Children of Dune when I was 16, and still do when I tried again in my late fifties. The other books are much, much more entertaining than that droning drivel. YMMV.
Jessica - May 17, 2020 10:57:36 am PDT #2664 of 3424
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I read through everything actually written by Frank Herbert. I tried one book written by his son (Brian? I forget) and oh my god it was unreadable so that was the end of that.
The Dune prequels are so godawful I only read 4 of them before giving up in total disgust. (What, I was trying to be a completist.)
We just rewatched the extended-edition "Alan Smithee" original last night and while Denis Villenueve's version may end up being, objectively, a better movie, it will never ever replace this classic hot mess of a movie in my heart. SO MUCH loud whisper-thinking! TWO HOURS spent on exposition only to rush through the last 400 pages of the book using voice-over montage! SO MANY reused shots in battle scenes that actually just could have been made shorter!
And of course the sheer joy of Patrick Stewart fighting Kyle MacLachlan inside these very convincing 1984 digital effects.