anybody like Dune?

I don't like Dune.....oh wait a minute damnit, that's why I picked the screenname. I DO like Dune!
I don't care nearly so much for the Herbert/Anderson books. I pretty much agree with mPisi: average adventure books using F. Herberts' ideas and characters.
 
Alright; I'll stop teasing Danny. One of my all time favorite SF books is the first Dune. It was a great extension of the Desert- extrapolated by conditions and human societies that are actually here today.

But all the other books were downhill all the way-



munk
 
I just couldn't make myself read God Emperor. Come on, Leto turns into a worm with human legs that rolls around on a gurney and crushes people? Sorry, but no way.
 
DannyinJapan said:
Anyway, the book I have linked for you guys to download is MY book.
I wrote it based on the original Frank Herbert books.....

217 pages of hard work and study. Please share it with a special woman in your life.
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First, Danny...thank you for sharing your book.
Second, page 5, we have many Beacons of Light here...Glorious ones in fact.
Finally, if I share it with a special woman in my life, will my wife find out?

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I really liked Dune.

I just dont' like sand.

People that don't like Dune suck.

Unless they like knives.
 
Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the prequel Pebble in the Sky were excellent.
Dine was good. I liked his Green Brain (?) as well
That was a lot of work Danny. Thanks for sharing.
 
tsf said:
Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the prequel Pebble in the Sky were excellent.
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T, it's been awhile but I seem too recall a sequel as well, can't recall its name though.:grumpy:
I need to dig out the whole Foundation works of Asimov and read them again but anymore reading books makes me go too sleep, hell even reading the forum sometimes puts me too sleep.:D
Barbie has finally quit nagging at me for it, mostly anyway.:rolleyes: ;) :D

I have a year or more of Analog I haven't read and I know there are some excellent stories in them. Perhaps I'll take a few along too Phoenix this year. I seem too get more reading done then.
I wish they were like Reader's Digest and printed a large print monthly as then I wouldn't let my subscription run out. I've had it for probably 20 years or more but the fine print is just too hard too read.:(
 
Dune's pretty good. First book was solid sci-fi. Things get weirder after that, but I'm not so sure it's all bad. I thought the first book rushed to the end a bit quickly after carefully setting up all of the characters. Think I stopped reading somewhere around the middle of "God Emperor" or "Children of Dune" Can't remember. Then again, I started in the series because I was riding Greyhound, and had a several hour layover outside of San Diego, so I walked a block to the public library and got 2 chapters into the 6th or 7th book.
 
If you havent read all 6 books, go do yourself a favor.
The last two books concerned this other group of women who were enaslaving humanity with near-supernatural sexual skills.
ITs worth a read...
 
I'm a big Dune fan.

I've read all the books at least 3 times.
I can understand why some people don't like the later books, as they seem to divert from the original story.
However, if you put aside your initial dissapointment and look at all the books together, just as one story trailing over several thousand years, it becomes magnificant.

IMO Frank Herbert was a writing genius, it's a shame his Dune epic was never finished in time.

ps
Danny, I think it's really cool, you went to the trouble of writing the manual.
I'll read it with pleasure.

Thankyou.
 
I loved the original series so much, it was something I had to do.
I spent 5 years thinking and writing that Training Manual.
IT is my sincere wish that it becomes a real thing.
 
The original movie, uncut, is good. I realize many of you think it's lousy and that's fine. When first released it was chaotic and truncated. I actually like it better than the SF channel version many years later.

I shudder to think of Dune becoming real in any way but stranger things happen. Perhaps Danny will become the High Priest of a New Order.


munk
 
Nasty said:
First, Danny...thank you for sharing your book.
Second, page 5, we have many Beacons of Light here...Glorious ones in fact.
Finally, if I share it with a special woman in my life, will my wife find out?

.
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NOW we GOT YA!!! :D Copy this to SWMBO and yer DEAD. :eek: Send three Khuks at once and better be gooduns' :mad:

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(I liked the first couple, then they got way too wierd. I think FM was droppin' somethin'. The recent series strays far from the original story line and seems very commercial -- sticks the formula-writing in your face.)

Nice work, DIJ.
 
FHerbert tried his best to spoil the first Dune book with his plonking prose and total lack of a sense of humor. It didn't work that time, I liked book 1 anyway. Especially the parts with the Baron H, my favorite sci-fi villain. He 'got the hang of it' for book 2 and I never attempted any others.
I like Larry Niven and Heinlein much better. CJ Cherryh is a superlative writer with only one fault: she has trouble with her "genius" characters.
WARNING: This post is headed OT!
No writer can create a character smarter than he/she is, because everything a character does & says comes out of the author's head. Therefore if a story calls for a 'nitro-burnin' supergenius', the canny writer creates a 'Potemkin Village' imitation and doesn't let the reader look too closely at it lest it spoil the illusion. Cherryh flubs this one (read "Cyteen"). Herbert actually does better with the Kwisatz Haderasz (sp?)
 
CJ Cherryh: is she still alive?

She is a great writer but tends to bog down. The Faded Sun series is one of my all time SF favorites.

Welcome, Qubehead. !!!
Interesting observation on portrayals of genius. I did not like Cyteen, and was about the last Cherryh I ever read, but not for the reason you state. Actually, CJ Cherryh is smarter, imho, than Frank Herbert. I don't think the theory follows. As in real life, many fake genius, why not a writer?

munk
 
She was retired from being a counselor many many years ago now.
It is hard to believe she's still writing. Good for her. Thank you, Thomas.



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