A buddy gave me his copy in June along with Ender's Game because apparently I hadn't read "the best sci-fi works of all time".

Perhaps the new Dune Forum will enhance my cherry popping experience.

yea I it might suprise everyone here but I read mad books cause I got into the habbit of it while I was caged and it just kind of stuck, I go thru periods where I won't read at all and sometimes I will read for weeks on end. Anyway tho with all this hullabaloo about Dune I was considering picking up a copy from the library, so please tell me specific reasons why I should read it.

Random non-Dune thought, Ender's Game was fun. Quick read.

I just finished reading The Monk which was a pretty cool twisted book




as a side note I'm proly going to have to write a book report on some piece of literature that I have read for 90% of the forum to believe I read recreationally

Random non-Dune thought, Ender's Game was fun. Quick read.

It is, the one's after that get kind of odd what with the Portuguese speaking tree aliens.

yea I it might suprise everyone here but I read mad books cause I got into the habbit of it while I was caged and it just kind of stuck, I go thru periods where I won't read at all and sometimes I will read for weeks on end. Anyway tho with all this hullabaloo about Dune I was considering picking up a copy from the library, so please tell me specific reasons why I should read it.

This is how I read - my mom's a librarian so reading does bring me joy, but with school and everything I read for class I get so burned out so during summer I went like 2 weeks straight just reading a lot of the classics and didnt' go out or anything after I wasn't burned out. it was fucking amazing.

Hyperion is a pretty great sci fi book.

Random non-Dune thought, Ender's Game was fun. Quick read.

Yes, yes it was.

Orson Scott Card is crazy as a loon, though.

Random non-Dune thought, Ender's Game was fun. Quick read.

Yes, yes it was.

Orson Scott Card is crazy as a loon, though.

Mormons normally are. Just look at Utah.

A buddy gave me his copy in June along with Ender's Game because apparently I hadn't read "the best sci-fi works of all time".

Perhaps the new Dune Forum will enhance my cherry popping experience.

Dune is a sci-fi soap opera. If you read it at all, you should read the first three books. Depends on whether you want to invest the time.

It's popular because there are a lot of creative/cool concepts, but ultimately it's not going to change your life.

The forum's interest in it was cool at first, but the obsession has become downright nerdy.

A buddy gave me his copy in June along with Ender's Game because apparently I hadn't read "the best sci-fi works of all time".

Perhaps the new Dune Forum will enhance my cherry popping experience.

Dune is a sci-fi soap opera. If you read it at all, you should read the first three books. Depends on whether you want to invest the time.

It's popular because there are a lot of creative/cool concepts, but ultimately it's not going to change your life.

The forum's interest in it was cool at first, but the obsession has become downright nerdy.

ur a tard.

the dune series is great sci-fi. i think thats the main part of its nerd appeal but its also a meditation on political theory, sociology, and syncretism. among other things. how much it would influence a persons outlook and understanding is entirely dependent on the person.

the forum isn't "interested" in it. its just a handful of posters. the fact thats its seen as a forum-wide phenomenon should be a testament to the badassery of the dune clique, and the fact that some are suckered by anything resembling a social situation where there are outsiders and insiders. recognise.

on a forum full of lame, desperate, and creepy leveling an accusation of "nerdy" at the dune obsessesed is reaching.

Dune is a pretty amazing sci-fi story. It doesn't focus on the "what if?" weird paradox's so much as existing philosophical/political issues take to the extreme in a galactic empire.

Drugs for expanding consciousness, eastern group though (purpose far above self), the power of social psych theory taken to the max (with priming and conditioning mostly), genetic engineering, Nietzschian sort of overman ideas combined with a biological determinism mold (eugenics plays a major role in the story line), and psychic powers.

And it is really well fleshed out, although as far as philosophical issues go it really doesn't go deep, just brings them up (especially in the later works). Dune has action but it isn't action packed, it is a very psychological drama. The hallucination scenes/internal struggle with seeing the future/ religious issues, beat out the actual action for drama.

Can't really add anything other than it's definitely one of those books where the author has realised an entire universe for the story and characters to inhabit that's so beautifully constructed and deep that you get lost easily in it. It doesn't feel dated either, probably because the focus isn't on fancy technology (even though Dune is set about 11,000 years in the future). In fact part of what makes it so unique is the whole post-Butlerian Jihad spurring of high-technology.

I always liked the plans within plans aspect of it. It really comes across as both superhumanly complex but still realistic enough that you are barely even aware of the suspension of disbelief.