Dune?

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summerisle said:
Never finished the book - needed a good book editor.
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It's very well edited. The whole point is to be so disorienting that it demands a reread. It all makes sense in context, but the approach the author and editor took was to provide the actual experience of looking in on an alien society and having absolutely no idea what is going on out of context.

If you want to argue that, say, Memento or Tarantino's out-of-sequence storytelling is a better approach to that problem, that's subjective. A lot of (counterculture) sci-fi literature from that era looked for ways disorient the reader. Anthony Burgess has his characters speaking an unintelligible dialect (unless you know Russian) in A Clockwork Orange, and good luck making sense of anything from Ubik forward by Philip K. Dick in one attempt.

The sequel film should be fire, seeing how the back half of Dune moves a lot faster than the first half, and has set pieces begging for Hollywood CGI.
 

Martin Alvito said:
It's very well edited. The whole point is to be so disorienting that it demands a reread. It all makes sense in context, but the approach the author and editor took was to provide the actual experience of looking in on an alien society and having absolutely no idea what is going on out of context.

If you want to argue that, say, Memento or Tarantino's out-of-sequence storytelling is a better approach to that problem, that's subjective. A lot of (counterculture) sci-fi literature from that era looked for ways disorient the reader. Anthony Burgess has his characters speaking an unintelligible dialect (unless you know Russian) in A Clockwork Orange, and good luck making sense of anything from Ubik forward by Philip K. [Poor language removed] in one attempt.

The sequel film should be fire, seeing how the back half of Dune moves a lot faster than the first half, and has set pieces begging for Hollywood CGI.
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Also, we have another casualty of the [AndyC] filter. Apparently I can't refer to a legendary author (in part because his estate failed to renew his copyrights, so Hollywood could adapt his works without paying the estate) by his proper name.
 

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