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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
("nail" makes me think of Martin Luther)
― youn, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
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.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
no its good shut up
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Monday, 13 June 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
thought this made more sense here than the film threads on ILEhttps://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font
― nashwan, Sunday, 29 January 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
“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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 09:03 (nine months ago) link
Yueh Yuehohnohe gotta goAy ya hya chouhada
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:00 (nine months ago) link
heyyuehbaron’s got your wife nowdon’t you worry yueh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:25 (nine months ago) link
🐦[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🕸]🐦
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:29 (nine months ago) link
a thing i like abt the acronym CHOAM is that what it stands for is really no less inscrutable = Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 21:55 (seven months ago) link
Yeah that's David Foster Wallace level
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 11:07 (seven months ago) link
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
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 13:38 (seven months ago) link
the word "honnete" in my corporate acronym has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the word "honnete"
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 13:42 (seven months ago) link
Kyle MacLachlan and Frank Herbert: The Boys pic.twitter.com/xcGURGQ4IL— Patrick (@Pilgrim945) August 25, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:53 (seven months ago) link
uniting eastern and western WA
― bae (sic), Thursday, 22 February 2024 07:29 (seven months ago) link
a prime up-the-arse corner candidate
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 22 February 2024 09:22 (seven months ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 24 February 2024 16:12 (six months ago) link
dune messiah continues to deliver
― mark s, Saturday, 24 February 2024 16:13 (six months ago) link
Now I can't get the image of a sandworm with Trump's face on it out of my mind.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:51 (six months ago) link
spice force
― cozen itt (wins), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:53 (six months ago) link
Make Arrakis Great Again
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:56 (six months ago) link
^^ https://www.tiktok.com/@loloverruled/video/7342915568074247454
― circles, Sunday, 10 March 2024 14:37 (six months ago) link