DUNE: c/d

i finally got around to Dune at the start of the pandemic & loved it & would love more of it. everyone seems to agree that Messiah is bad & not worth the effort - would i be lost at sea if i skipped it and went right to Children?

very probably.

also mark s. likes it iirc. and it's relatively short

it's a quick read and it sets up the events of Children of Dune, it just feels a bit pointless on its own, there isn't much of a story there

Pinky nail summaries of all 24 books to date, in chrono order, no more spoilery than nec.:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g38012512/dune-books-in-order/

Dune is the ur-text of modern science fiction. It's rare to find a book that draws, successfully, on so many disparate ideas to form a coherent narrative.

Imho, the whole series is untouchable through God Emperor. He could have ended the entire saga there and left everyone satisfied. I understand that bills gotta be paid, though, and the last two books are not unreadable, they just don't add much, if anything, to the story.

("nail" makes me think of Martin Luther)

just finished dune messiah and it was indeed as bad & pointless as i had been led to believe. after the epic sweep of dune this one felt weirdly stagebound, a tale of the galactic struggle for control of infinite cosmic spacetime that takes place entirely in like 3 different rooms, with what feels like only about 8 speaking parts altogether. but ironically i'm kind of more interested in getting to children of dune now just based on the prospect that it will surely be better than this one, and help me feel like the time spent on this one wasnt wasted.

no its good shut up

Red Nation, radical indigenous presenters look at the Dune film from last year in terms of colonialism etc.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3eF0TJNCvx5rrrk0E4NwS6?si=49d64aed6f4348c1

Leto II has total recollection of the memories of all his ancestors, which means that he remembers watching The Phantom Menace in theaters.

— Mia Moore (@StopTweetingMia) October 12, 2022

thought this made more sense here than the film threads on ILE

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font

“Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!” goes the refrain. “A million deaths were not enough for Yueh!”

some ilx0r needs to create a song out of this imo

Yueh Yueh
oh
no
he gotta go
Ay ya hya chouhada

hey
yueh
baron’s got your wife now
don’t you worry yueh

🐦[Leto II has total recollection of the memories of all his ancestors, which means that he remembers watching The Phantom Menace in theaters.
— Mia Moore (@StopTweetingMia) October 12, 2022🕸]🐦

a thing i like abt the acronym CHOAM is that what it stands for is really no less inscrutable = Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles

Yeah that's David Foster Wallace level

found scribbled in blood on a scrap of paper as he emerged from a multi-week spice bender, soon after he found himself checked in at the group home

the word "honnete" in my corporate acronym has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the word "honnete"

Kyle MacLachlan and Frank Herbert: The Boys pic.twitter.com/xcGURGQ4IL

— Patrick (@Pilgrim945) August 25, 2021

uniting eastern and western WA

a prime up-the-arse corner candidate

in the introduction to Dune Messiah, Brian Herbert claims, unprompted, that Frank Herbert would have been one of the all time great US Presidents (?) had he decided to do that instead of becoming a writer

— caroline (going woman) (@soonrightaway) February 24, 2024

caroline (going woman) @soonrightaway: in the introduction to Dune Messiah, Brian Herbert claims, unprompted, that Frank Herbert would have been one of the all time great US Presidents (?) had he decided to do that instead of becoming a writer

dune messiah continues to deliver

Now I can't get the image of a sandworm with Trump's face on it out of my mind.

spice force

Make Arrakis Great Again

^^ https://www.tiktok.com/@loloverruled/video/7342915568074247454