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Colonel Cancer posted:I've been listening to a dune audiobook and holy poo poo count Fenring Best character
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euphronius posted:Best character Mmmhrmhhm The part where their coded language is transcribed and the two voice actors try their hardest to humm their lines is 
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Mar 24, 2021 03:55
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lmao we listened to the audiobook during our road trips up and down the east coast a few years back and the mmmnnmnnnmmnhymnnn drove my wife nuts She loved the rest of it but was just saying "oh my god shut up" after a few minutes worth of it I still think it's funny that the voice actor for Baron Harkkonen has this super deep voice yet the narrator just speaks his lines with this stereotypical, fat guy voice with big rear end jowls hahaha
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Mar 24, 2021 03:59
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Yeah I didn't care for Baron Harkonnen voice actor I think the Lynch movie version was way better. All the Harkonnen goons voices were hilarious and kind of out of place though
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Good soup! posted:lmao we listened to the audiobook during our road trips up and down the east coast a few years back and the mmmnnmnnnmmnhymnnn drove my wife nuts To be fair in the scene at Barony for Feyds coming of age the baron does remark on how annoying it is
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Riot Bimbo posted:I'm visiting home and I found my old edition of Dune. I think its maybe 2nd or 3rd but no idea still cool. That font looks delicious. I could happily eat a cool, creamy Dune right now.
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Tree Bucket posted:That font looks delicious. I could happily eat a cool, creamy Dune right now. Sorry, we only have the dusty hot ones.
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Tree Bucket posted:That font looks delicious. I could happily eat a cool, creamy Dune right now. Dessert planet
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Mar 24, 2021 18:57
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Riot Bimbo posted:I'm visiting home and I found my old edition of Dune. I think its maybe 2nd or 3rd but no idea still cool. Every crease and ripped corner, to be cherished intimately like the Sihaya.
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Mar 24, 2021 19:58
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Wikipedia says first edition is blue green
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euphronius posted:Wikipedia says first edition is blue green That's after Muad'dib made it rain. yes, I know
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Mar 24, 2021 21:08
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The dune publisher was known for automotive manuals ans business to business magazines ??
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Mar 24, 2021 21:09
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Always tempted to buy this https://www.amazon.com/Home-Computer-Handbook-Frank-Herbert/dp/057503050X
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euphronius posted:The dune publisher was known for automotive manuals ans business to business magazines ?? Supposedly, it's one of the stereotypical "pick up at an airport and get sucked in so much that you almost miss your flight, then you suddenly realize that you've already landed" books.
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Mar 25, 2021 10:37
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Yeah, it was the only publisher Frank Herbert managed to sell his book to, and not only that, the run wasn't particularly big either, yet the book somehow managed a cult following and just grew as more and more people picked it up. *glances at departures board* "Kull wahad!!"
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Mar 25, 2021 11:27
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Mar 25, 2021 17:40
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Remember when a new dune movie was going to come out and then another dune movie was going to come out a year after that hahaha
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Ingmar terdman posted:Remember when a new dune movie was going to come out and then another dune movie was going to come out a year after that hahaha kull... wahad.... 
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Mar 26, 2021 02:32
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Tree Bucket posted:That font looks delicious. I could happily eat a cool, creamy Dune right now. Unfortunately it tastes like rear end and dirt.
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kiimo posted:Unfortunately it tastes like rear end and dirt. The smell of sietch 
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Mar 26, 2021 17:19
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How rich is the typeface of your story, Frank!
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Mar 26, 2021 17:32
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I detect serifs... italicizing... kerning...
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Mar 26, 2021 22:50
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Font within font...
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Mar 26, 2021 22:58
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Ingmar terdman posted:Always tempted to buy this I have a copy of that. Mf talkin about wifi way back then. These are all great but esp slide whistle
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Mar 28, 2021 00:33
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I’m most of the way through my first read of Heretics. Books 1-4 were fairly consistent in their quality, but I’m surprised at how much worse Heretics is. Also: did Herbert create a rule for himself that he has to mention either a glowglobe, suspensor, or chairdog once per page? His approach to technological innovation and stagnation was so compelling through GEoD, but in Heretics it feels like he didn’t *really* want to adjust his world too far past Leto II. Other than planet names changing it basically seems like everything is the same, which is dumb.
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Mar 29, 2021 16:38
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I'm 80% of the way through and just along for the ride. I'm a couple chapters past Miles Teg going Super Saiyan. I've certainly read worse books, but I generally recommend the series up through God Emperor since it forms a pretty complete story.
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Mar 29, 2021 18:23
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I feel like for the post God Emperor books Herbert should have done either short story anthologies, or at least kept them short and focused like Messiah. Heretics and Chapterhouse are both kind of meandering a lot of the time with no payoff for it.
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Tbf, there’s no payoff because he died.
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Mar 29, 2021 19:01
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It just sorta strains believability that after the reign of Leto II the entire power structure of the old empire is still basically intact after however many thousands of years. Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, Fish Speakers, Ix, the Spacing Guild. They even still have Suk doctors! And they don’t all simply exist in name, they’re essentially unchanged. I thought the whole point of the golden path was to avoid stagnation...?
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Mar 29, 2021 19:06
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The end of Heretics will show you a few things that had only been mentioned for the rest of the book. It's worth a read, IMO, even though the last two books were the weaker of the series.
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Mar 29, 2021 19:13
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There seems to be no actual central authority iirc though. Yeah you have institutional juggernauts like the bene gesserit and the suk school, but those institutions *would* be rather resistant to change. The tleilaxu have gone from a planetary power with a niche tech market to one of the dominant powers in the old imperium, alongside the bene gesserit and scattering returnees. It's rather changed honestly
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Mar 29, 2021 22:03
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Miles Teg, 200 year old 7 foot tall one-man dethklok concert. Chugging soup by the gallon to relax after punching dozens of heads right off their necks
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Jewmanji posted:It just sorta strains believability that after the reign of Leto II the entire power structure of the old empire is still basically intact after however many thousands of years. Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, Fish Speakers, Ix, the Spacing Guild. They even still have Suk doctors! And they don’t all simply exist in name, they’re essentially unchanged. I thought the whole point of the golden path was to avoid stagnation...? Avoid stagnation in humanity as a whole, ie the Scattering. This was achieved by causing stagnation in the old empire and suppressing the ability of people to move, to cause wanderlust.
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exmachina posted:Avoid stagnation in humanity as a whole, ie the Scattering. This was achieved by causing stagnation in the old empire and suppressing the ability of people to move, to cause wanderlust. That's right. Plus all the crazy that happens moment to moment in the very end of Heretics. The Bene Tleilax, mentioned earlier go from a mighty power to a single (sexy) man/thing. Also Priesthood get hosed.
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phasmid posted:That's right. Plus all the crazy that happens moment to moment in the very end of Heretics. The Bene Tleilax, mentioned earlier go from a mighty power to a single (sexy) man/thing. Also Priesthood get hosed. I am just starting Chapterhouse finally and 'we've just been pretending to be stupid for eons to the point of the matres glassing our planet' -classic teliaxu'
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Ramc posted:I am just starting Chapterhouse finally and 'we've just been pretending to be stupid for eons to the point of the matres glassing our planet' -classic teliaxu' One of the greatest lols in the Old Emperium.
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Audible (UK) only has the Frank Herbert books. I do kind of wish they had all of the apparently terrible books to complete things.
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Doug Sisk posted:Audible (UK) only has the Frank Herbert books. I do kind of wish they had all of the apparently terrible books to complete things. Mods??!?
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The good news: I found a copy of Dune at Goodwill, along with a bunch of other Fantasy/Scifi Novels! The bad: It's the 2005 40th anniversary edition. Still, my 1980s copy has the front cover fallen off from use and I don't actually know where it's gotten off to, so I needed a copy anyway"  I had picked up " DEMON" there and read the blurb on the back, thinking " why does this seem familiar" and sure enough, that is the 3rd book in that trilogy. The first book is "Titan" and I believe we have discussed it in this thread before*. I have a copy of Titan, so now I just need to stumble across a copy of "WIZARD" *With the Centaur people that have two sets of genitals and can be a mix and match of male/female organs on the horse side and human side. Those Foundation novels are 1952 copies. Oh and doesn't this novel seem a little....familiar?  At least, certain elements. Johnny Aztec fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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I can smell those books
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