Dune Owns All!!

I'm in this boat too. I remember really loving them, but I was so young I probably didn't get all I could from them. They're on my list to re-read....

 

I just read Dune for the first time at my boyfriend's prompting. He's a great fan of the books and highly reccomended them. Taking his word, I soon picked up the first book and found myself immersed in a fantastic story, a desert planet...

God, I can't wait to start Dune Messiah!

 

I'm suprised at how much people loved the books...I mean, they ARE great, but they don't top my list of greatest science fictions books. Even discounting Douglas Adams books...as with those it's the humour that sells them.
I like the story he puts across and he does have a nice writing style, which make Dune a very good book, but not the best.

 

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
The Road to Dune
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune (To be released September 2007)

I just finished reading Hunters of Dune and it was every bit as good as I had hoped. Frank Herbert's vision has come full circle (I hope I didn't give away the ending)

BTW: I'd love to go a few rounds with a Bene Gesserit Imprinter or an Honored Matre:drool:


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I was really disappointed by Hunters... seemed it came to some really obvious conclusions. I was hoping for something new, something surprising... some "ah ha!" moment that never materialized.

 

I actually enjoyed it

It wasn't as good as the master tactician himself would have written, but it wasn't bad and it answered a number of questions.


Hotwater

 

don't get me wrong.. it was a Dune book, ergo it was enjoyable. I agree that it answered some questions, but they were rather obvious answers. Brian has done a really good job, and had some really great material (like when it was revealed why the evil Baron was sooo fat) just feel kinda "ho-hum" about where its all headed. Was hoping for more.

 

So I've made it to Heretics and I'm about halfway through. That shirt? I bought one for my boyfriend's birthday gift. He absolutely LOVES it.

I <3 My Geek

 

frank herbert's dune series is a great sequence of stories set in a great universe, but it's not like its the first or only such there's ever been or is. though it was certainly one of the longest running and i'm sure it's publisher must have loved its author.

sure i liked it too. and they may even be one or two books in the series i haven't read yet. but there ARE a LOT of other great, believable universe/contexts created by many other very very good real science fiction authors who'se names are NOT household words among any but sciffy affectionados.

if i tried real hard i could probably name at least one for every letter of the alphabet. and more then five for some of them. adams, anderson, asamov, aldis, that's just the letter "a", and there are probably several a's i don't know yet. even z has zilazny.

yah dune was cool. but so were the worlds visited by jo clayton's skeen. or ...

there's really just so many of them. like another lady who's foot i accidentaly steped on at a con one time. argh, i don't know who to honor first and most by comparison.

=^^=
.../\...

 

i love dune aswell. very very much.
the first one was probably the most gripping for me, but i devoured them all (the ones written by frank herbert) in a few weeks. the last couple were the most interesting though, because they arnt so much adventure stories as observations and speculations on society and politics. very cool. herbert had quite a mind.

 

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
The Road to Dune
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune (To be released September 2007)

While I agree with you for the most part, I thought God Emperor of Dune emphasized the points you brought up with even more clarity


Hotwater

 

Dune was fucking amazing. It crosses genres and goes deep in the mind. I loved all the mind-politics and the world he created. I couldn't stop reading it until I was finished and was sad that it was over.

 

I don't get all the massive Dune loving from everyone, everywhere. I read the first book because a couple of my friends kept making references to it, and wouldn't explain the references, instead just telling me to read Dune. It was a good book, but not great. The best part about reading the book is that now I get all the references to it by my friends, and various other places. Maybe it's just me, but I'm surprised how popular the series is.

 

See, I didn't understand Dune until I saw both movies, read and listened to the book (sometimes I'm a little thick). But then I began to understand it even more when I read the rest of the series. Frank Herbert had so much more to say than what was just in Dune. To me far and away the best sci-fi series out there.

I've only just started into Brian Herbert and Kevin j Andersons books with Hunters of Dune, and while I'm glad the cliffhanger at the end of chapterhouse can be explained, I'm not sure I like the different writing style.

 

Dune has gotta be one of my favourite series ever. Incredibly deep, how he creates a 10,000+ year history.. just amazing.
Also check out The Eyes of Heisenberg.. a very VERY relevant commentary in this day and age (I think Bush considers himself one of the Optimen; truth is he's about as far away as you can get).

 

OK I just finished Hunters of Dune, I finished it, but I was glad to done with it. Brian and Kevin cannot compare to frank at all. I'm sorely disappointed.

 

No one can compare to the master himself Frank Herbert, but BH & KA at least gave it the old college try


Hotwater

 

Dune is definately on my favorites list. I first read it when I was in high school and thought it was great. However, when I read it again a couple of years ago, I couldn't believe all of the deep aspects that had eluded me. There are political science and social science philisophical issues woven throughout the story.

 

Agreed.
Dune is just too awesome to explain
really, it is what it is, and that is
amazing

 

I just purchased my copy of Sandworms of Dune, and I've already read a few chapters - so far, so good


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