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Believe me you'll find yourself quoting the God Emperor before long

But If you don’t care for God Emperor, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse are classics, and you're introduced to the honored matres


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Dune is incomparable to any other work of human creation, through any medium, in my opinion.
Imagine Islamic familiar traditions, futuristic Zen Buddhist/Hindu like approaches to God, bodyguard clones who keep coming back for hundreds of years and have to relearn why they exist, and overall acid drenched, magic mushroom revelation like philosophy induced by melange (or the 'spice') that continually reinvents itself with each chapter, of almost each book. The faster than light speed travel due to the melange, gigantic massive sandworms manipulating the desert enviorment as the main ecological resource, mentat human computers who break down reality and process the gathered data to generate results which lead to mind reading, and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood bent on creating their mastermind through selective breeding control.
A kind of spoiler but nothing major, the main character of the original Dune begins to realize that life is a program which can be realized and understood, as he battles with fear of insanity and establishing his religion. The best part is when he trips on the melange, it reminds me a bit of the middle scene in El Topo when he lives out a literal rebirth through the old Shaman lady.

Without a doubt it will deeply change your life and outlook on reality, it's more or less novels of perfected poetry which drop perceptions on reality coming closer to higher truth as it goes.
The first Dune is probably the most accessible and although it's not in order of the series of events, should be read first because it lays the foundations which get shattered and rebuilt in the following novels.
Id say that my favorite by far is the 3rd book, Children Of Dune, because it is definitley the most psychedelic and poetic. Half the book literally feels like an overwhelming mushroom trip account lol. But I shouldnt say it's the best, because I've only read up to God Emperor of Dune which Im almost finished, and that is only the 4th book. God Emp is awesome in it's own way, Leto II is so much more insane than his fater.

 

Oh I most definitley love it, I just posted about it, Leto II walks the finest line between insanity and genius ever imagined :cheers2:

 

I just started, like am a few pages into "What Happened to Cass McBride?" The library got in a huge collection of books directed at the teen audience, and they all look really good and all the ones I've read so far are good. None of them are challenging, sure, but they're still entertaining. Takes me back to high school. *sigh*

 

Reading for the third time in maybe 15 years:
Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam by Vladislav Tamarov, a Russian conscript in that horrific war.

The Soviet-Afghani conscripts were treated as badly on returning home as the U.S. veterans of the Viet Nam Blasphemy. I bow my head to all of them .... and to the 58,195 names on The Wall

It makes me cry! It purges my soul! for awhile

Parallel reading for the second time:
Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali & Lester W. Grau
Since around 1850 western countries have been fighting wars in this poor country .... and the Afghanis have never once been a threat to anybody on this planet.

It makes me cry! It tortures my soul! for awhile



Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svāhā
__________________

Sheryl
Soft and tender, tough and hard ....
Never touched a razor ....
I shall love her always!​

 

I'm really enjoying this book:

 

I've been reading "invisible monsters".. I don't think I'll be able to finish it until school's done in a few weeks though.

 

atlas shrugged by ayn rand and really enjoying it
runes of the earth by stephen donaldson... it's ok. his original thomas covenant stuff was way better imo
the alvin maker books by orson scott card I flew through a couple and now I'm taking a break to read the above and then I'll come back to them.

 

And .... A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

 

i'm also working my way throguh Adam Smith Theory on Moral Sentiments and The Law by Frederick Bastiat

both i have pdf files of, so its slow going because i don't enjoy readining on the computer

 

That is one messed up plotline. (I just read the wikipedia entry)... And yet, i want to read it.

 

The Magic of Mathematics

Dragons of Winternight

World War Z

I Tend to Read a few Books at a Time...So I Do Not become Bored with One...

Altogether about 1000 Pages...

 

Aye tis a Good Zombie Book...

 

what are you currently reading

 

Today I read:

1) "Colonials and the Policies they Made" by Boyce Richardson, from his book People of Terra Nullius.
2) "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano
3) "The Rise of the Merchant & Industrialist" in some book by Richard Robbins
4) "The Rise of Corporate Power in America" by David Korten
5) "The Failures of Bretton Woods" - Ibid.
6) "The Bretton Woods Trio" by Wayne Ellwood.
7) and I read a bit of Marx because I felt it was important to go over; Social Man, The Immorality of Capitalism from the Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour & Capital.

At the moment, I'm reading everything besides this so my eye balls will fall off. Long live essay courses and the insane standards in Canadian University. Progress begins, one page turning at a time.

 

ugh!!

man, quite a bit of reading you did there Ari

 

the bretton woods books sound interesting.

 

eldest, second of the eragon trilogy