can anybody assure that dune is good?

ArwenEvenstar · 09-21-2002, 05:32 PM

i am starting to read the Dune books can any one reassure me that they are good books, from what i heard they are...

XRogue · 09-21-2002, 10:15 PM

The first one (Dune) is very good, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune are all pretty good, Heretics and Chapterhouse were hit and miss, IMHO. The prequels were pretty good also.

BeardofPants · 09-21-2002, 10:37 PM

They're all very good. Most people don't seem to like the last two in the series (Heretics, and Chapterhouse) but I thought they were great.

Read the first one at least. God Emperor is good as well.

ArwenEvenstar · 09-22-2002, 01:17 PM

yesterday i ordered dune from the library and right now im juggling 2 books the Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert(

) and that other fellow and The Last Enchantment by Mart Stewert

mirrille · 09-22-2002, 03:14 PM

Dune is one of those series that you either really love or you just...don't...get. For me, I thought it was amazing, but will concede that it is a bit bizarre. Best thing is to read it with an open mind.

markedel · 09-22-2002, 11:12 PM

I never got past the first one, but Dune itself is excellent. I need to reread it some day I'm afraid.

Mark of Cenla · 09-24-2002, 10:27 AM

It is top-notch sci-fi. I need to read them again. Peace.

Galenavar · 09-24-2002, 07:01 PM

I've only ever read Dune, but I simply loved it. It is so good. It is a little bizzare if you aren't used to future science fiction, but I still give it two thumbs up!

ArwenEvenstar · 09-28-2002, 08:41 PM

it never came into the library yet

oh well

aeglos · 09-29-2002, 07:21 PM

Dune is one of the most cpmplex and incredible books I have read. Much of Dune's action is political. With many factions sceeming to control events to their advantage. The abrut exit of the main charactor is surprizing and the following books are not as good as the first. The books written by Hebert's son are very much in the form of the original novel, and I would recommend reading them before you read Dune because you will understand the plot a lot better.

GRONK!!! · 10-09-2002, 04:14 PM

Dune was great but when GRONK read the 2nd one GRONK hated it so he quit there.

bropous · 10-19-2002, 12:40 PM

Anyone else find "third person voice" in a conversation irritating?

Dune is a fantastic book, and the follow-ons were really well written as well. I was a bit disappointed in the development of the story line, though, but it IS Herbert's story and he can do with it what he likes.

Snowdog · 10-22-2002, 10:39 AM

I'm reading Dune now, and I went well for a time and now picking it up again after a summer disruption. I want to finishin it before starting the Black Company series.

Unfortunatly, I had not read Dune before the movie in 1984, and the movie didn't drive me to want to read the books despite encouragement from my little bro who had the foresight to read it. My wife read the first three Dune books after seeing the Sci-Fi mini-series of Dune and liked them.

I guess there can be no guarantees any particular person will think they're good or not.

Arathorn · 12-16-2002, 02:38 AM

I watched the 1984 Lynch movie, got confused, and forgot about it. I heard they were doing the Sci-Fi channel mini-series and started reading it and loved it. After watching the mini-series on DVD and conversing with BoP, I managed to finish the other 5 books in 3 months and l absolutely got spice-hooked!

I haven't read the "House" prequels yet but have started on the Butlerian Jihad prequel of prequels book by Frank's son. It doesn't live up to Frank's style, so far, but it's satisfying my curiosity.

The Spice must flow!

09-21-2002, 05:32 PM	#1
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	can anybody assure that dune is good? i am starting to read the Dune books can any one reassure me that they are good books, from what i heard they are... __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

09-21-2002, 10:15 PM	#2
XRogue Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2000 Location: D/FW Texas, USA Posts: 345	The first one (Dune) is very good, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune are all pretty good, Heretics and Chapterhouse were hit and miss, IMHO. The prequels were pretty good also. __________________ Farewell wherever you fare, till your Eyries recieve you at the journey's end.

09-21-2002, 10:37 PM	#3
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	They're all very good. Most people don't seem to like the last two in the series (Heretics, and Chapterhouse) but I thought they were great. Read the first one at least. God Emperor is good as well. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

09-22-2002, 01:17 PM	#4
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	yesterday i ordered dune from the library and right now im juggling 2 books the Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert() and that other fellow and The Last Enchantment by Mart Stewert __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

09-22-2002, 11:12 PM	#6
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I never got past the first one, but Dune itself is excellent. I need to reread it some day I'm afraid. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

09-22-2002, 03:14 PM	#5
mirrille Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 479	Dune is one of those series that you either really love or you just...don't...get. For me, I thought it was amazing, but will concede that it is a bit bizarre. Best thing is to read it with an open mind.

09-24-2002, 10:27 AM	#7
Mark of Cenla Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: central Louisiana Posts: 105	It is top-notch sci-fi. I need to read them again. Peace. __________________ Mark Wellman ><>

09-24-2002, 07:01 PM	#8
Galenavar Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: WI Posts: 129	I've only ever read Dune, but I simply loved it. It is so good. It is a little bizzare if you aren't used to future science fiction, but I still give it two thumbs up! __________________ Galenavar Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo If there's no magic, there's no meaning.

09-28-2002, 08:41 PM	#9
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	it never came into the library yet oh well __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

09-29-2002, 07:21 PM	#10
aeglos Hobbit Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Salem Oregon Posts: 17	dune Dune is one of the most cpmplex and incredible books I have read. Much of Dune's action is political. With many factions sceeming to control events to their advantage. The abrut exit of the main charactor is surprizing and the following books are not as good as the first. The books written by Hebert's son are very much in the form of the original novel, and I would recommend reading them before you read Dune because you will understand the plot a lot better. __________________ all that glitters is not gold all that wander are not lost

10-09-2002, 04:14 PM	#11
GRONK!!! Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 46	Dune was great but when GRONK read the 2nd one GRONK hated it so he quit there.

10-19-2002, 12:40 PM	#12
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Anyone else find "third person voice" in a conversation irritating? Dune is a fantastic book, and the follow-ons were really well written as well. I was a bit disappointed in the development of the story line, though, but it IS Herbert's story and he can do with it what he likes. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

10-22-2002, 10:39 AM	#13
Snowdog Dúnedain Ranger of the North Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Ruins of Arnor Posts: 892	I'm reading Dune now, and I went well for a time and now picking it up again after a summer disruption. I want to finishin it before starting the Black Company series. Unfortunatly, I had not read Dune before the movie in 1984, and the movie didn't drive me to want to read the books despite encouragement from my little bro who had the foresight to read it. My wife read the first three Dune books after seeing the Sci-Fi mini-series of Dune and liked them. I guess there can be no guarantees any particular person will think they're good or not. __________________ "I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son. The highway is my legacy, on the highway I will run."

12-16-2002, 02:38 AM	#14
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I watched the 1984 Lynch movie, got confused, and forgot about it. I heard they were doing the Sci-Fi channel mini-series and started reading it and loved it. After watching the mini-series on DVD and conversing with BoP, I managed to finish the other 5 books in 3 months and l absolutely got spice-hooked! I haven't read the "House" prequels yet but have started on the Butlerian Jihad prequel of prequels book by Frank's son. It doesn't live up to Frank's style, so far, but it's satisfying my curiosity. The Spice must flow! __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

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