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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 06:29:23 pm

Title: Dune
Post by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 06:29:23 pm: I'm about to spent £28.74 on the following books:

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapter House Dune

Worth it?
Title: Dune
Post by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 06:33:03 pm: Oh and:

Star Trek - Tales of the Dominion War
Title: Dune
Post by: mrfun on September 23, 2004, 07:35:00 pm: Dune is the greatest sci-fi novel ever written.

The rest of the dune books, though very popular, I personally didn't like at all. The were good reasing but I hated the plotline.
Title: Dune
Post by: Corsair on September 23, 2004, 07:35:23 pm: I liked Dune, although I had a hard time getting into it. I couldn't get into the second one at all...

Try them. You'lll like them I think. I was too young when I read them.
Title: Dune
Post by: Antares on September 23, 2004, 08:01:13 pm: Holy crap, man. Don't go beyond the first Dune novel unless you want a serious headache. The first one is screwed-up enough as it is, laden with politics and philosophy and general weird, and they only get stranger as they go along. Around the third of the original titles, they stop making any sense at all.
Title: Dune
Post by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 08:07:19 pm: Righto, I've done some editting:

Dune
Dune Messiah
Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War
Human Traffic (DVD)
Title: Dune
Post by: Corsair on September 23, 2004, 08:08:00 pm: that sounds very good.
Title: Dune
Post by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 08:18:11 pm: Hmmm. I can pay ~£4 and get them First Class. Which, with the dispatch delay, means Monday morning - maybe Tuesday.

Or I can use the Super Saver delivery, c'z I ordered more than £20 of stuff, and get them in 4-6 business days, which means probably Saturday or the following Monday.

Whaddaya think?
Title: Dune
Post by: Rictor on September 23, 2004, 08:18:59 pm: the Dune miniseries rocked, though it was a bit long for one sitting. Great for those who haven't read the books, and they stand as good movies in their own right.

that is all.
Title: Dune
Post by: Nuke on September 23, 2004, 08:54:27 pm: i liked the 80s movie better, a darker more evil looking version.
Title: Dune
Post by: HeX on September 23, 2004, 09:00:34 pm: Me too. That and Patrick Stewart as Gurney Hallek is *****in. :D
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Post by: Stealth on September 23, 2004, 10:36:20 pm: yeah i went through a "Dune" stage once, in which i bought the books, the movie, and the miniseries. this was about 3 years ago or so.

great story
Title: Dune
Post by: Antares on September 23, 2004, 10:42:35 pm: Use whatever option costs you less. If it doesn't matter either way, get first class.
Title: Dune
Post by: an0n on September 23, 2004, 11:35:09 pm: I paid the extra ~£4.

I can't be bothered waiting a ****ing week for them to get here.
Title: Dune
Post by: Zarax on September 24, 2004, 03:06:46 am: Dune is an amazing series which is a match even for LOTR, once you get inside it will take you like few books will ever do...
Title: Dune
Post by: Bri_Dog on September 24, 2004, 03:17:03 am: The Dune series rules....except for the abominations written by kevin anderson.

That's pretty fricken cool that you got the entire series for that price. I'm assuming they're softcover books?
Title: Dune
Post by: kasperl on September 24, 2004, 03:29:41 am: I've been looking all over for Dune (book 1) in the bookstores, but I couldn't find it. So instead, I spent my book money on a Roman era novell, a Roman era detective (Lindsey Davis' Falco series is awesome), Dante's Devine Comedy, and a few Penguin classics. (Call me a cheapass, but 3 euro for Gullivers Travels is nice.)
Title: Dune
Post by: Zarax on September 24, 2004, 04:32:48 am: Err... e-book anyone? :D
Title: Dune
Post by: kasperl on September 24, 2004, 07:30:55 am: 'twas for the holiday reading. Right now, everything but Dutch is banned, since I need to get my litarature list for school filled. English is easy enough to read, I've got that covered, but Dutch is a *****. Too much artsy writers, not enough plot.
Title: Re: Dune
Post by: kode on September 24, 2004, 08:15:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

Worth it?

yes.
Title: dune
Post by: Getter Robo G on September 24, 2004, 08:32:03 am: I loved the movie!

Kyle Mclaughlin (SP?) was perfect as Paul... Plus his wife was hot! (though the girl in the miniseries had huge breasts!)

I SO wanted there to be a sequel to the movie... But alas it was abandoned for many years...

Irelin (the emperor's daughter) was VERY hot in the miniseries after she cut her hair IMHO!)...
Title: Dune
Post by: Zarax on September 24, 2004, 08:40:45 am: The De Laurentis version (can't remember the director) was designed to be a colossal, too bad it was flawed in the end by cash shortages...
With a budget like the LOTR trilogy Dune would absolutely rock even as a movie...
Title: Dune
Post by: Grug on September 24, 2004, 08:50:59 am: All the Dune books were pretty awsome to me.

The movies were a bit 'iffy' but still fun to watch if you'd read the books.

They need to make a decent game out of the plot. Maybe even some better movies.

Maybe if the people who made LOTR could do Dune... hmmm...

Dune had some similarities with Dune on the sense of detail.

A decent game of Dune would be heaps awsome. Maybe a 3rd Person shooter something similar to max payne, so you can have the melee combat, and slow-mo Bene Gesserit training stuff here and there. :)

Personally some of my favourites were the ones on the Butlerian Jihad. That scene with the psycho robot killing a human baby just for and experiment in front of the humans, and then just a universal human 'snap' when they all just go nuts and revolt against the machines. I love that part. :D

But yeah, Dune is awsome. :D
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Post by: Zarax on September 24, 2004, 09:19:17 am: Check the underdogs and you will get a surprise ;)
Title: Dune
Post by: ionia23 on September 24, 2004, 02:30:04 pm: The Dune series is easily one of the most enjoyable sci-fi collections ever created. When you finish those six you can read the new boooks written by his kid. They are quite good.

Happy reading!