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The fourth one, God Emperor of Dune, is the next best after the original. Two and three aren't bad either, but beware anything after number four.

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

This is the fourth of the magnificent dune chronicles.It is amazing that the first three were masterpieces ,but this borders on something even greater,a book of nearly divine wisdom and beauty.No human has created a better work of art in recorded history (save the sistine chapel).This book encompasses all that is important in life ,and shows it to you through the vastly visionary eye,of Leto atredies ,the God of the universe.
This book will give you sympathy for the roll of God,which we so often despise for petty reasons,not even realising the lonliness and sacrifice required ,to be the ruler of all existence.
Should be required reading in all highschools and colleges,along with the other 5 books.
If frank herbert was not divinely inspired,then he is the greatest single writer,in the history of the world.

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

if this guy was so enlightened, why does he not put spaces after commas.

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

book one: awesome.
book two: snore.
book three: something might happen soon.
book four: cool, something did happen!
book five: sex sells right?
book six: the other side of the onion.

movie: the long version owns the short one simply because it's less of a deliberately confusing lynch picture. (which i like his stuff, but...) seriously, the movie could've been 8 hours and probably barely covered the book. never saw the sci-fi channel stuff.

i'm afraid of all those prequels written by his son and *SHUDDER* kevin j. anderson. i'm not afraid of dorkland really, but i dunno, after 6 books with only 2 being worth it, i just haven't wanted to go there. i have a friend who has read all of that shit and loved it. but he reads buffy novels too so...
m.

msp (msp), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

outing myself as a nerd here.. but Ive read just about all of the books and the prequels. the prequels are pretty bad, but not bad enough to not read it. good easy reading if youre not in the mood to think. but yeah, I agree with most people on the thread - god emperor is pretty bad ass. most of the other stuff goes over your head with the quasi religious psycho babble.

the best thing about dune evar = DUNE 2 GAME FOR PC. IT TALKS.

still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i disagree about the prequels. they are pretty awful. i have also read most them, with the exception of # 6. the first one is pretty amazing, thats why you keep reading. 4 is also good but 2... just skip it. did anyone see the "children of dune" movie in which the character playing alia, supreme being allegedlt wise beyond her years utters the phrase "i'm not gonna.." beautiful acting....

Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

My friends and I used to play this really involved Dune board game that you could buy when we were like fourteen. If you got to be Harkonnen or Atreides, you had a good chance of winning!!!

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

AWESOME...ALL VERY USEFUL, THANKS DOODERS.

FUCK A CUTTY.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

lauren there are no hobbits in dune

kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i have seen DUNE and the BEASTMASTER over a dozen times each. THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR HAVING 2 OLDER BROTHERS NAMED LARRY AND JERRY.

Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

OH, AND I GET KRULL AND DUNE MIXED UP ALL THE TIME ANYWAY. They might as well have both had ferrets saving marc (k) singer from quicksand anyway.

Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

KRULL IS OK IF ONLY FOR TEH RAD CYCLOPSE. AND WHEN THEM WIZARDS EYES GO BLACK.


FRESH.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I JUST BOUGHT DUNE TEH PROFESSIONAL VERSION off ebay.

IT'S A WHOPING 194 MINUTES.


SIKED IS ME.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Helen: "Many have tried"
David: "They tried and failed?"
Helen: "They tried and died."

I got a lot of mileage out of this quote freshman year.

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SAMPLED BY SOMEONE, RIGHT?


CONVERGE I AM LOOKING AT YOUZ

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

shai hulud is obv all about the dune samples. "heat upon heat upon heat!"
that long version of dune is pretty sweet. the intro by irulan is like an hour long. word around the camp fire is that d. lynch hated the edited version so much he wouldnt put his name on it.

Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

some friends' band (am I namedropping if I don't say their names and they're not famous anyway?) recorded an entire album about Dune.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

eon "void dweller" samples "he who controls the spice controls the universe"

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

With a slew of smart, groundbreaking hardcore techno singles under his belt, all Eon had to do to top it all was release a killer album. On Void Dweller, as with his other work done with the close involvement of Depth Charge's J. Saul Kane, he does just that, with a fairly consistent picture of dance as combination crowd-pleaser and sonic creepout. The odd thing is that the opening track, "A Kind of Living (Green Icing Mix)," is a much more gently jaunty number than most of what else he had done -- a quick check of the credits shows why, though, as Baby Ford provides the mixing help here instead. With that as an almost deceptive start -- there's still something in the bass lines that suggests Eon's more explicit nervous tension -- Void Dweller wends its way through a fine set of early-'90s dance material. Nothing quite forecasts the next big shift in electronic music, the rise of jungle/drum and bass rhythms, but as an aggressive picture of where some of the acid house aftershocks of the late '80s ended up, Void Dweller's great, full stop. The general pattern of appropriate weird and wigged samples from varying sci-fi sources -- Dune, Basket Case, The Outer Limits, and more -- holds true here, as does the generally bombastic-with-a-purpose slamming beat collage. "Spice," "Fear: The Mindkiller," and "Basket Case" itself all take pride of place with varying mixes -- indeed, "Basket Case" itself appears in both the "white coat" and an even more insane "black coat" mix. Plenty of treats surface throughout, though. There's the deep acid bass squelch that suddenly crops up on "Final Warning (Raucous Dub Mix)," the rumbling, ominous shuffle of "Electromagnetic Waves," and the relentless crunch and murky bass synths and distorted vocals of "Infinity" help make Void Dweller the great, head-exploding collection it is.

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Lynch took his name off the TV version...ALAN SMYTHE or something.

A traitor.


I saw a CD by a band called Harkonan on Hydra Head...which could be ok?...maybe.

ID KILL TO BE IN A DUNE BAND. IVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS WITH MY FRIEND. STILLSUIT would be a rad name for a BAD hardcore band.


ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

harkonen are not very good, in my opinion. Shai Hullud seems to be the best of the Dune bands but they don't really exist anymore. I bought that Harkonen and was seriously disappointed. I heard they were supposed to do a split with Shai Hulud but ended up not for whatever reason.

Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if you'd like it but here goes:

http://www.temporaryresidence.com/www/jpg_files/trr11.jpg
TRR11 Nero, "Dune Concept Album" CD
This CD contains one of the strangest ideas I've run across lately... an insane, angular, aggressive soundtrack for David Lynch's failed sci-fi beast of a movie, Dune. Trust me, though - as goofy as this sounds - this is a fantastic album. It takes more than human guts to dish out the beating that Louisville, KY's Nero gives the senses with the nearly 18-minute long improvisational album-closer, "Kwizzach Haderach." Within this track, dialogue samples from Dune are alternately buried and brought to the surface, while Nero relentlessly tweaks and hacks away at building a colossal, disturbing drone. It's absolutely maniacal - which is the best way to describe Nero. With guitars, bass, drums and vocals all armed with razors and needles, and a really scary stab at an oddball "concept album," Nero has designed an inspired piece of unforgettable mayhem.
-pillowfight.com

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I WANT THIS. WHERE DO I GET?

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"pillowfight.com"

ROFFLZ

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

that website is long gone

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

www.temporaryresidence.com sez it's still in stock. Or I could give you my copy, maybe.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

WHATS THIS "MAYBE" SHIT.


FORK IT OVER BUSTER...ITS JUST TAKING UP SPACE AND DISTRACTING PEOPLE FROM LOOKING AT YOUR WICKED COLLECTION OF TEEN BEAT SEVEN INCHERS.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I own one Teenbeat 7", dude. Guess which one and you win the Nero CD.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

GRENADINE

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

WRONG

http://www.ket.org/images/nola/MACG/MACG__002104.1117926.200x150.jpg

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

BASTRO

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

BASTRO 20 songs

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

or


BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

ALSO WRONG

http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/special/images/mgroup.jpg

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

SEXUAL MILKSHAKE!

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

WHICH IS AWESOME BTW.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

DUSTDEVILS feat. MARK IBOLD of PAVEMENT

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/McLaughlin_John.jpg

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

HINT: PLAYED ON WFMU LISTENER HOUR FOOLS.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

OH...HE WAS AT FREE 103.9 on FRIDAY....LOOKING HELLA THICK.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

BASTRO actually = GASTR DEL SOL

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

UNREST/STEREOLAB split 7"

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

SHIT..THATS WHAT I MEANT..WHEN I WROTE BASTRO...

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

TUSCADERO!


ROFFLZ

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

well I'm gonna give you the CD anyway.

Separate non-Dune related question: should I sell all my stuff and start over?

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

What would you buy first?

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

TEENBEAT 125 - GASTR DEL SOL 20 Songs Less - 7" (January 1994)

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

a new life?

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

why don't you all just go buy a single copy of "Weapon of Choice" if you're so hungry fo Dune quotes in yr songs!!!!

Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Kyle Maclachlan looks a little bit like your Benson, tbh

mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

ikr?

(。◕‿‿­­­­­­­◕。) (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/GDMPRRFDBC1981.jpg

ok this looks like a gigantic turd upon which someone has lovingly crafted a sullen face

dayo, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

She pulled away her mask and moved her face to within a handsbreadth of his. A finger came up and touched one of the curled flaps of his cowl.

"Stroke it gently," he said.

Her hand obeyed not his voice but something from within her.

flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

http://goodnightdune.com

― am0n, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 2:42 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

loooool

dmr, Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link

it is perhaps better that you die

in the innards

of a worm

mookieproof, Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link

where are those quotes from? I just read 1-4 and I don't remember those quotes at all!!

dayo, Saturday, 8 October 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat

movie, dunebro

( ) (mh), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link

i'm going as my namesake for halloween

bene_gesserit, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://i46.tinypic.com/18jfgm.jpg

bulge renaissance (+ +), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

if you're prescient how come you keep fucking up? more like golden shower than golden path amirite?

the late great, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link

He knows he's going to fuck up, fucking up is part of the path. That was always the downside of prescience - once you've seen it you have fixed it in place and have to live it. That's why Darwi Odrade tries not to use her Atreides prescience to sneak a peak in Chapterhouse.

maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link

not true! leto saw arafel and he made that impossible!

the late great, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link

i am reading the book for the first time right now, o man

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link

what your favorite parts?

the late great, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link

so i just finished last night... i liked most of it? particularly liked all of the stuff about the bene gesserit training and mentats and stuff. jessica changing the water of life was p rad and alia is cool, but she is creepy as fuck

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link

basically i have been lurching around the house croaking like sian phillips and scaring my boyfriend saying shit like

"they tried and died"

and

"there is a place.... terrifying to us..."

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link

yeah the idea of mastering innate human potential as opposed to technological potential is i think the master stroke of the series

the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link

haha i don't remember those parts

i'm assuming the first is about men trying the water, the second is about the place where rev mothers can't look?

the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link

haha, yes and yes

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

also the term "pre-spice mass" strikes me a hilarious but idk why

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link

i know what you mean, there is something subtly kooky about the whole liet kynes thing

like there's that whole scene where the harkonnens throw him out onto the sand over a pre-spice mass and he's having this ecological ephiphany but all i'm thinking is fart jokes

the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link

i wanted more explicit info about the spice orgies tbh

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link

also i was left wishing i had a connect to sell me like a gram of spice, that shit sounds p good

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link

it's just nutmeg, duh

the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link

smoke that shit w/ some banana peels son

the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link

also the term "pre-spice mass" strikes me a hilarious but idk why

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:52 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

I think of like, smegma, or ambergris

smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Friday, 3 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link

still haven't gone on to reread heretics/chapterhouse yet

smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Friday, 3 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link

you will!

YOU WILL!!!!

the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link

I've just re-read all six. It was a bit of a slog in places and I think he wastes some interesting characters by jumping forward millennia at a time between books but overall I think it's a wonderfully imaginative series.

yeah the idea of mastering innate human potential as opposed to technological potential is i think the master stroke of the series

otm - Mentat calculation, Bene Gesserit awareness, Truthsaying, etc. plus all the heightened physical abilities are all things that one could maybe believe would be possible were the human body and brain to be pushed to their full potential.

maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Friday, 3 August 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link

honing your pinky toe to killing strength in the digit mill

the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:49 (eleven years ago) link

pretty sure frank herbert's mom or mother in law or exwife had the voice

the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

I've never seen this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYYVRTWmjY

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/GDMPRRFDBC1981.jpg
http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/23-1n019-jesus3-c-300x300.jpg

this was the first thing i thought of when that painting "restoration" thing happened which probably speaks ill for my mind

back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 16 December 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link

eight years pass...

the spicy adventures of BEAN GESSERIT and BENE DAD in wormworld

mark s, Saturday, 6 November 2021 11:41 (two years ago) link

ghola revive

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 6 November 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link


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