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[Shatsbasoon]

Frank Herbert is awesome. Nuff said.

[Mr Bosko]

definatley a great book, really helped launch a genre and sparked my imagination. I saw the old movie first, and i loved it, until i read the book and saw how much was missing. But Frank Herbert himself liked the movie, so i'm probably wrong : P

I recently read a bunch more in the series and i still enjoy the first one the most.

[latdheretic]

I have read them all multiple times, except for a few of the new series, a few of those I have read only once (except I could not finish Sisterhood)

The New books are good, but not as good as the originals. My favorite is Children of Dune, though it may be because Farad'n Corrino really resonated with me both in the book and in the second miniseries.

[RL Nice]

I first tried reading Dune when I was in middle school, around the same time that Children of Dune was broadcast. Big mistake.

[Voridan Atreides]

I read all of the original Dune books, and the seires that was set when the ***** was. They were pretty good although the only one I would read over would be Dune (the first book) because of all the freaking immoralitly........



I guess I can't say xjihad????

Edited by Voridan Atreides, 04 October 2012 - 05:21 PM.

[RL Nice]

Reading Dune Messiah right now. Kind of perplexed by references to Genghis Khan and Adolf ******, would these figures even be remembered ten thousand years later? Perhaps I'm spoiled by Warhammer 40,000 (heavily influenced by Dune, by the way), where nobody remembers anything from Earth's ancient history.

[Adridos]

Lightdragon, on 30 September 2012 - 04:29 PM, said:

games were aweful

Story-wise, maybe, but being the ones that popularised (not made, there were some RTSs before it) my favorite genre of games, the games themselves were great.

[Spleenslitta]

I loved the games in the old days but i kinda wish i never read the books to be honest. I'm currently sitting beside a small library's worth of books.
I'm sorry to say that the Dune books were one of those book series i will never recommend to anyone. But they used to real bestsellers once i believe so maybe that's just my taste.

[Lily of Thrace]

I've watched the film by David Lynch several times. Quite a decent sci-fi movie. I liked it.
Played the RTS on the PlayStation to death. One of my favourite games on that console.
The book, however... I read it, but it didn't grab me like other books do. It was decent enough. Pretty good, really. But it didn't measure up to other sci-fi books I've read.

[Gabopentin]

The original Lynch film was not as Lynch wanted it. This is why the verbal explanations happened at the beginning of the film. Nearly two hours ended up being scrapped "because people won't sit down for a 4 hour movie". It spoiled the end product. The TV series of films was done quite well and closer to the books but still had a fair bit of 'cinematic licence' taken with the story line. Dune was one of the 1st 'other than Asimov or EE Doc Smith series I read when it was first published.

[Eule Keule]

Dune - and all its following books - made me a scifi-fan.
Read them in german, english and of course the klingon original

Take your time reading them. and after some time (1-5 years), read them again - you´ll find new things, thoughts and interpretations every time.

I cannot recomend the Brian Herbert/Kevin Anderson books. Besides all the critisim already mentioned - there are a lot of serious logical mistakes in them, which made me almost angry (because of the money i´ve spend).

[Scytale]

Loved Dune (as you may or may not be able to tell). Not a fan of the Lynch film though, although I did like Paul~

[Vactus]

I grew up with a father that was a HUGE Dune fan. He tried to get me to read the books and in the late 80s/early 90's had me watch the original film. However, it took my first wife in 2003 to get me to read it. Holy gods I was in love. Not a huge fan of his sons work, but still, good books.

I wanted to run a Dune table top game, but could never figure out a decent system to use. I guess Savage Worlds might work now that I've been playing that lately.

[Strongbeau]

I'm a huge fan of Dune since reading it in high school many years ago and often play MMO's using a name of one or two of its characters. The Dune series had such great names, even in the newer books. I feel Dune was one of my influences growing up. Frank Herbert's universe was amazing to me and while I liked his son's and Kevin Anderson's take on it, especially how the action is written, they write some of the imagination out of the obscure parts of the universe in too short a time frame about how things got that way and some of the plot is really odd and off putting such as *SPOILERS* Paul running away and joining a circus as a child (due to reasons beyond his control), or that in Sisterhood of Dune, the Sisterhood never stepped foot on Dune.
I liked both movies but prefer the newer movies which were allowed to follow the books more closely and even adding to it a bit. I'd love to see a big budget LotR scale remake for the first three books.
Fantasy Flight games released their remake of the old Dune game but due licensing issues were instead set in the Twilight Imperium universe called Imperium Rex which inspired me to find and buy an old copy of the Parker Brother's Dune board game. Someday I hope to find the orginal board game as well that Imperium Rex is based on.

[Bashars]

I loved the movie. Someone gave me the set of books (but I never got around to reading them). Funny thing is that when I started playing MPBT I needed a name. I looked in the books for something and found Bashar (In here I had to add an S since Bashar was taken).

"Bashar was a military rank of the Sardaukar comparable to the Old Earth rank of Colonel, a fractional point above the standardized military classification of Colonel, below the Supreme Bashar and two levels below Burseg."

Everyone thought I was just using Basher but spelled it wrong. Over the years I just kept it.

[Darius Otsdarva]

Dune was a magnificent book. I really enjoy the series and the world that was built with it.

Dune II was a great game when I first played it. I'm actually thinking of reinstalling it maybe. If I can get it to work on Windows 7.

[Dirus Nigh]

I really enjoyed the first two Dune books. Third was ok, never got around to reading the fourth. The Anderson books got kinda bland for me. I just could not connect them with the original Dune. That and I just didn't really like how the characters played out.

The sci-fi channel, back when it was sci-fi and had good programming, made a Dune mini series that stuck very close to the books. It was done very well.

edit.
Oh I really enjoyed the Dune movie. It might have cut some parts in the books but it really gave me a feel for the world they were creating. Not long after I started getting into 40K. As far as tone and aesthetic design go that movie is to 40K what Blade runner is to Shadowrun.

Edited by Dirus Nigh, 05 November 2012 - 10:45 PM.

[RL Nice]

Scytale, on 10 October 2012 - 03:57 AM, said:

Loved Dune (as you may or may not be able to tell). Not a fan of the Lynch film though, although I did like Paul~

I just noticed that you named yourself after the Face Dancer from Dune Messiah.

[Solis Obscuri]

I loved Dune - first seeing the movie on VHS, reading the books in high school and loving the immersiveness of the universe and the winding schemes of the plotlines, and I thought the Sci-Fi movies were also excellent and did a great job staying true to the novel (the Lynch film wasn't so accurate, but somehow it still captured the spirit of the thing... and SOOOOOO iconic!)

Then I began reading the prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson... ugh. The first wasn't too bad, but I could scarcely finish the second. Really made no sense in terms of the established timeline (everything in the established history of the universe happened twenty years before the first Dune? Really??? ) and the whole treatment of the Butlerian ***** was just ******* godawful (and seemed to be partially ripped-off from The Matrix).

As an aside, does anyone else think that "J i h a d" is blocked by the filter because of a language issue, or just because Comstar is [REDACT]ing us?

[Scytale]

RL Nice, on 08 November 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

I just noticed that you named yourself after the Face Dancer from Dune Messiah.

BAM =D

Solis Obscuri, on 13 November 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

As an aside, does anyone else think that "J i h a d" is blocked by the filter because of a language issue, or just because Comstar is [REDACT]ing us?

Immersion demands the latter =P