Dune

[jack]

And for the first time, I chose a book by its cover. I mean, often a cover grabs my attention, or I filter on genre by cover, but decision to take will by by text. But I wanted Dune -- I read it at school a lot, but never owned it. But the version in borders was all black and stark cover, which was cool, but not Dune to me. So I added it to my next amazon (marketplace) orders.

There was the option to buy an omnibus edition, which is normally cool but (i) I suspect the combination will be gargatuan and (ii) I don't really want Dune: Anything Else.

I remember when I first read Dune. I was definitely embarassed to be reading such Scifi, though I can't remember exactly why.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Shortly after I read Dune I read one of the late sequels, and it was interesting, very different, but I didn't really enjoy it. However, in retrospect, I couldn't say for sure if it was any good in its own right, as if it had been I would probably still have found it difficult to get into.

Later on I read the couple of direct sequels to Dune, and found they had a lot of the strengths of Dune (which is what I wanted) but didn't really hang together at all, and I just stopped.

I won't say anything about the.

[simont]

I won't say anything about the.

Good idea. To say nothing of .

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't including that by association.