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The Shockmaster posted:Welp... I just took the plunge and bought a hardcover of the first three books. I've been lurking the thread for a couple of months now and it's inspired me to actually go out and read the original trilogy. I live in Seoul so I've spent a few weeks scouring English bookstores around town for a copy but to no avail (I was able to find the Brian Herbert books fairly easily), so I finally just bit the bullet and ordered it through an international book seller. I'm really excited to finally start the series, I should've read these a long time ago and I appreciate this thread for finally getting me to take the initiative. Get through Children, so you can read God Emperor - it is a book hard to compare to any other. As for Heretics and Chapter House, I like them but I understand people who don't.
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Chapterhouse is an awesome set-up to a book that doesn't exist.
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I do have one criticism to levy at that summary of the series: Frank Herbert was always smokin hella weed typing on his typewriter with a rock hard old man dick.
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He claimed not to have used drugs (except for writing about an experience with peyote). However, there's lots of stuff in his writing (fiction and nonfiction) that makes me suspect he was acquainted with the ganj.The Shockmaster posted:Welp... I just took the plunge and bought a hardcover of the first three books. Hope you enjoy them 
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Destination: Void is a weed book
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May 3, 2019 18:20
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So are the Jorj McKie books.
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Many shitposters in GBS. New shitposters.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Many shitposters in GBS. New shitposters. Where did they come from? The southern wastes?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Many shitposters in GBS. New shitposters. Oh?
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Vlex posted:Oh? Better than those on Reddit.
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phasmid posted:So are the Jorj McKie books. Can't talk: chairdoggin 
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b mad at me posted:I've read Solaris and it was really weird and cool, but I'm going to have to stop you there. The fururalogical Congress is one of the best books out there imo.
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my dog died im sad posted:The fururalogical Congress is one of the best books out there imo. *clutching first edition* suck my dick you assman agreed
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sebmojo posted:Cyberiad owns Cyberiad is so full of puns and wordplay that I can't believe anyone could translate it at all, much less have it turn out well. genius level poo poo.
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Some people call me Muad'Dib *Guild navigator plays slide whistle*
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May 3, 2019 23:52
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arrakis... dune... desert planet...
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kiimo posted:Some people call me Muad'Dib And I speak with the Weirding Way
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sebmojo posted:Can't talk: chairdoggin Then I talk to people on the other side of the galaxy via a living tuber plant that resents its station as galactic switchboard operator.
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uber_stoat posted:arrakis... dune... desert planet... 
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I just finished God Emperor, and it is my favorite of the series so far. It sucks that I am going to have to lump this in with Twin Peaks as a thing I really love but won't be able to talk about to anyone in real life because no one I know cares. I was reading some interpretations of the ending, and it kind of fell into place for me when I realized Leto was getting so pissed about Duncan and Hwi not out of jealousy, but he knew since they fell in love he was going to have to take her with him over the bridge since the Golden Path needed Duncan and Siona to fall in love and have kids. The imagery of Moneo having his revelation as he saw Leto's Walmart cart exploding in golden smoke as he was falling off the bridge was pretty cool.
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I've read the whole series a handful of times and it was only on my last read that the whole plot of Heretics made sense even though it's spelled out in the book. Taraza purposefully goading the Matres into glassing Arrakis to kill off most of the worms since their residual God Emperor prescience was trapping the Bene Gesserit. The Dune books have so much weird poo poo and so many interwoven themes it's hard sometimes to pick a major theme or plot point.
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:The imagery of Moneo having his revelation as he saw Leto’s Walmart cart exploding in golden smoke as he was falling off the bridge was pretty cool. The Royal Rascal, please!
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God Emperor OD rules and is completely worth wading through the pool of poo poo that is Children OD
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I mean it is the worst Dune novel, sure, but pool of poo poo?
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phasmid posted:So are the Jorj McKie books. I wish we'd gotten six of those, the Consentiency was an interesting place. Four of the Destination: Void books was a nice treat though.
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Was the “Royal Cart” supposed to be humorous and give Leto II the air of an disgusting crazy glob, like his great-grandpa? Also how dare you call Children a pool of poo poo when it has the tiger assassination plot.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:
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Mister Speaker posted:lol the Baron's first thought when Alia eloquently insults him in the Emperor's throne room, is
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I love those absurd moments, like Bijaz's "Nooooooo!"
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I think it's actually one of the more humanising things about Dune; that every character is capable of being goofy and silly at some point, to the point of undercutting someone else's dramatic scene because they're doing their own thing. Baron Harkonnen is particularly silly but also a legitimate threat, but everyone else has their moments. Leto II by the point of God-Emperor has been around so long that the novelty's long worn off and people are casually curious about how his body works, and kind of the point of his Royal Cart is that he's almost literally a fish out of water physically and, while nearly invincible, still can't really function in day-to-day life without things like that to help him.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think it's actually one of the more humanising things about Dune; that every character is capable of being goofy and silly at some point, to the point of undercutting someone else's dramatic scene because they're doing their own thing. Yeah for real, especially Count and Lady Fenring. I just finished another read of the first book (in case you can't tell) and their dialogue, description, that whole secret language thing, it's all so bizarre that near the end of the book, when Shaddam and RM Mohiam had "one weapon left and both knew it: treachery," and they summoned the Count, I thought wait really? Fenring? The guy who, in my head, talks like this guy?
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