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Mister Yuk wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
If no one has the balls to get past the first book and do something on the next two, why should I even care.

Didn't the SciFi miniseries cover the first three books?

stratochamp wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I could not disagree more Mister Yuk. I think Dune is the greatest sci-fi novel and the other books in the series are mediocre, so I don't care whether they are filmed or not. The Lynch movie did some bizarre things (making the weirding way into a sound technique and the terrible ending being two of them) so I am looking forward to a faithful and competent treatment.

The weirding modules were as out-of-place in the Dune universe as the Star Wars cantina would have been, since it is supposed to be a post-technological era where people don't invent much new stuff. Their square shape also resembles portable 8-track-tape players of the early 1970s. The idea of using sound is perhaps a symbol for pop culture & music, but by 1985 these types of music players had disappeared, so the symbolism is extra ridiculous. That's why I love the weirding modules. Here you've got this already great novel to adapt in the directorial opportunity of a lifetime, so the logical path is to throw a monkey wrench into it like Jodorowsky's transcendent emperor or Lynch's space-folding navigators. Yes, the other novels should be filmed. But only if done with something completely uncalled-for, like a cast of trained parrots instead of actors.

Kingofpain89 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I just finished reading Dune for the first time.  It's been on my "to read" list for about 35 years.  Picked it up a couple of times when I was much younger and never could get past the first few chapters.  It was very difficult to read it without picturing Kyle McLachlan as Paul or Patrick Stewart as Gurney.  I did find it a very satisfying read.  But for me the ending was very abrupt.  At first I thought that the book had some pages torn out of it.  I was going to read Dune Messiah but I was told not to worry about reading any of the others in the series as "they will bore the hell out of you".  I've had the same thought about the Ender series.  Ender's game is still one of my favorite sci-fi books but I have yet to read any others in the series.

Ex-Ante I WAS on the same page as you, thinking i wouldnt bother with more - but i went on to read more of both. Have read 3 of the ender novels (I think speaker for the dead was not 'better than Enders Game' as some fanatics would say) - and I wouldn't read any of them except Enders Game again. With Dune, read on if you need closure but the other books are weaker and I have never gone back to them in the 15 years since i first read them. So..... I'd find something else to read vs reading beyond Dune tbh. Just my 2 cents  

Dune is a book that's been on my 'to read' list for decades.
I only get through a couple of books a year hardcopy, so I bit the bullet last week and got it on Audible.

I thought the Dune Encyclopedia was better than the sequels. The Dune Encyclopedia - Wikipedia Of all the sequels, God Emperor of Dune was the best.

I have never been so glad for an election to be over in my life.  I received enough political mail to wallpaper my living room.  I had four people knock on my door asking me to vote in the last two weeks.  My phone rang a lot, but I never answer calls from numbers I don't recognize.  I can go back to hating drug commercials that tell me how I might get intestinal cramps, diarrhea, memory loss, severe pains, death, or a painful, permanent erection.  

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I have never been so glad for an election to be over in my life.  I received enough political mail to wallpaper my living room.  I had four people knock on my door asking me to vote in the last two weeks.  My phone rang a lot, but I never answer calls from numbers I don't recognize.  I can go back to hating drug commercials that tell me how I might get intestinal cramps, diarrhea, memory loss, severe pains, death, or a painful, permanent erection.  

News over here is saying it’s “likely a 50-50” democrat senate now with the VP holding the casting vote, but not been made official yet? Is the pond side up to date? Is the world finally free of that clown Trump?

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I have never been so glad for an election to be over in my life.

Yep. Totally over & done with.