Dune

[Kuciwalker]

I'd rather read the Left Behind series.

*winces* ouch, that's pretty damning

[JohnT]

The Left Behind books are at least honest - they don't pretend to be anything but what they are. These Dune prequels are dishonest in that they're using the poor mans name to sell second-rate "based upon the works of..." novels, and its an especial travesty that Franks' son is involved. He and Ted Williams' kid need to hook up.

[Dr Strangelove]

Alas I never found the time to read more then the first two of Frank Herbert's Dune books.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, at least that is better than Rama's sequals. It was even Clarke's kids who fubared it... it was himself

[Theseus]

Thanks for the input so far... as I suspected from the first prequel trilogy, the works by Herbert Jr. and Anderson are generally an abortion and abomination. It pains me, in the absence of what I had hoped for, but I will not be reading the second prequel trilogy.

Speaking of abominations... I just watched the first installment of 'Empire', ABC's miniseries on Julius and Augustus Caesar... OMG.

:smiley-for-horror-at-the-seventh-level-of-hell:

On the other hand, I also finished Richard Morgan's two "Takeshi Kovacs" books this weekend (and even made a point of recommending them to *Vel*, in that they made me think of his writing)... so all is not lost.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Alas I never found the time to read more then the first two of Frank Herbert's Dune books.

They pick up strongly in the near-classic thrid book Children of Dune, goes into a near catatonic stupor (others) or reaches the bar set by the first novel (me) in God: Emperor of Dune, gets off the Atreides path (kind of) in the weak Heretics of Dune (a book that included a sexual battle of wills between Duncan Idaho and a twisted Bene Gesserit), and closing it unexpectedly with Chapterhouse Dune, but by then the average reader dropped the series, having come so far that not only are the original characters no longer around, but this isn't even the same interstellar empire that we all knew and loved - so much time has passed that even the names of the systems have changed!

I liked it, though. Some of the later work was just good, bizarre stuff.

[BeBMan]

I read the six (?) books by F. Herbert, but when I was at part six I had forgotten most details from the parts before, maybe except those from the first book, which I really liked.....so in the end I was rather confused.

[JohnT]

Not an uncommon reaction.

[DeathByTheSword]

i read dune a while ago (for the 4th time) and i loved it still...the policital movements made it all so good...the book doesnt only build an new universe but also new religions new ways to look at things and for me give an inside look at how leaders work together with politics...i loved it together with some very good and true (in my eyes then) quotes that still apply today...

(paraphrased):
a leader is there to make individuals out of people, if a leader does his job poorly there will be to few indivuals and the people will turn in a mob. - stilgar talking to lady jessica about the jamis problem