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Dune?

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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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Well, I was around 11/12 when I had a go at it. :)
 

wm02 said:
Currently reading the third book of the Dune trilogy. Really good
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It's solid, and a great first read. It doesn't hold up as well as the second book, which I did not like on a first read. As I have gotten older, I have appreciated the second book a lot more.

The series gets a little screwy from there, with the last one (by Frank) being the only one I really rate. The others are worth your time, but if it's a choice between them and real genre classics, I would suggest going there first.
 
summerisle said:
Well, I was around 11/12 when I had a go at it. :)
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No excuse is required. I have met plenty of people that do not like Neuromancer. I married one, though as you know it did not end well.

We both rated Count Zero. Subjectivity is a thing. The novels aren't that different, but the approach and presentation differ, and that's enough. The latter is a much more traditional novel, in terms of structure. Why she wanted our copy of Snow Crash, I will never know. I blame the Deliverator.
 
Martin Alvito said:
No excuse is required. I have met plenty of people that do not like Neuromancer. I married one, though as you know it did not end well.

We both rated Count Zero. Subjectivity is a thing. The novels aren't that different, but the approach and presentation differ, and that's enough. The latter is a much more traditional novel, in terms of structure. Why she wanted our copy of Snow Crash, I will never know. I blame the Deliverator.
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This is brand new information.
 

I had a go at the book but really struggled to get into it. Lots of good world building but I didn't actually enjoy the writing too much and struggled. Timothee Chalamet is a lot to deal with but I thought Dune part 1 was fairly solid. Having a Benjamin Clementine cameo was enough for me to rate it highly.
 
Lineker said:
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It's the Dixie Dean of Science Fiction books - mere films cannot do it justice.
Books are different
A book takes the authors imagination in black and white then multiplies it by yours when you colour it in as you read
The first film was Maupey
This modern one might be a bit Haarland-ish...but it's still no Dixie
 

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