Just the first book, or is reading the original trilogy worth it? I'm debating getting them.
I liked the books up to and including the fourth one (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune). The next two were just...there. Never bothered with the ones Frank Herbert didn't write.
Frank Herbert's stuff is great, but pretty heavy reading.
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I liked the books up to and including the fourth one (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune). The next two were just...there. Never bothered with the ones Frank Herbert didn't write.
Frank Herbert's stuff is great, but pretty heavy reading.
Yes, but does it do a deep-dive into the intricacies of Galactic Economics and questionably legal Trade Embargoes?
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The best Dune related media are the documentary about Jodorowsky's failed attempt at making an epic movie, and the Command & Conquer style 90s PC games.
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With that song in the trailer I'm going to start calling it "The Dark Side of the Dune"
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Salvador Dalí was set to play the Emperor and claimed he wanted to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood history. He asked for $100,000 per hour to act in the movie. Jodorowsky proposed to pay him $100,000 per minute, but then reduced the Emperor’s scenes so that Dalí would be needed for no more than 3-5 minutes with the rest of his lines spoken by a robotic lookalike; Dalí consented in exchange for being allowed to keep the "doll" Emperor for his museum.
The documentary is really great.
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The best Dune related media are the documentary about Jodorowsky's failed attempt at making an epic movie, and the Command & Conquer style 90s PC games.
I really liked that Dune C&C game. It was basically like C&C, with a cool theme. The sand worms were extremely annoying though. They would constantly show up and destroy your spice harvestors.
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I liked the books up to and including the fourth one (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune). The next two were just...there. Never bothered with the ones Frank Herbert didn't write.
The last two I appreciate more as I'm older I think, either that or I've read the series enough times to get the last two more maybe.
But I agree the first four are great, I like God Emperor of Dune almost as much as the first one.
And overall I'd place it as one of the best sci-fi series of all time.
And I agree avoid everything Frank Herbert didn't write, they range from bad to offensively bad. Unless they've improved by many orders of magnitude lately.
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The last two I appreciate more as I'm older I think, either that or I've read the series enough times to get the last two more maybe.
But I agree the first four are great, I like God Emperor of Dune almost as much as the first one.
And overall I'd place it as one of the best sci-fi series of all time.
And I agree avoid everything Frank Herbert didn't write, they range from bad to offensively bad. Unless they've improved by many orders of magnitude lately.
I'm the same way. When I was young I loved the original, liked the next couple, and struggled with the later ones. Now I appreciate the later books a lot more, I just wish he'd lived to finish the story instead of the abomination his son and Kevin Anderson wrote (there are elements that I think probably are consistent with Herbert's vision of the end, but the execution was terrible).
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The best Dune related media are the documentary about Jodorowsky's failed attempt at making an epic movie, and the Command & Conquer style 90s PC games.
Interesting....just looked this up and apparently the Dune game came before C&C or Warcraft, and is credited with establishing the genre:
