/lit/ - Literature

>>4913081
>Hi there, Brian Herbert, how are you doing?

I'm not Brian. I'm just a good reader.

>reading any Dune books not by Frank

>>4650815
> judges book by the film


you should be over in /tv/, durak.

>>4496918
Despite the books getting progressively weaker, the later Frank Herbert Dune books look like masterpieces compared to the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson garbage.

>>4280464
never mind. i understand R.L Stine is coming out with a new Goosebumps book any day now.

>>4218379
After attempting a reread of the 5 Dune sequels, I think Dune Messiah is decent. The rest aren't essential and I doubt I'll reread them again, though they're all better than the crap that followed.

>>4159437
I suspect that Brian Herbert has little to do with the newer Dune books, and his name is just there to lend some air of legitimacy and get them shelved alongside the real Dune books. Kevin J Anderson probably does most or all of the writing.

What the fuck was the Golden Path anyway?

>>4065780
This is the truth.

the first six were by Frank Herbert.

the Dune Encyclopedia came out after book 4 and was written by a group of Frank Herbert's friends. he said it wasn't canonical.

all of the prequels were written by his son along with that other fucktard, and took a thoughtful, considered universe and turned it into a sandpit filled with giant robot battles and supervillain one-liners you wouldn't hear coming out of Michael Bay's asshole.

bookos dot org

warning: i think the hosts are russian. the books are in english, though.

>>3810838
Read at least Dune and Dune Messiah. Messiah deflates much of what you might have thought was being built up in Dune.

If you like them, read the other Frank Herbert books. Don't bother with any of the non-Frank ones.

Whatever you think of it, it's a hell of a lot better than the Brain Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson prequels/sequels/etc.

This.

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>>3692538
are you a fan of Brian Herbert's Dune books? if so, please kill yourself immediately.

here.

the Dune prequels and sequels are shit. don't bother with them.

>>2946314

in case anyone tries to claim the Dune Prequels are worth reading.

>>1950964
one of Frank Herbert's shopping lists would be better than anything Brian Herbert and that other fuck could ever possibly come up with.

seriously. Frank Herbert's characters had a depth that Brian could never match.

i owned two of the dune prequels. they were so awful that i left them on a table in a nearby park, to allow the gentle rain to destroy them slowly.

preachy? wait until you get to book 3. look, the whole thing was inspired by an article Frank Herbert was writing on desert ecology. if it had been an article about buttsex it would have been called "Hole" and you'd STILL be complaining it was too preachy.

>> Dune by James Herbert a


you'll love it. it's just like all his other horror novels. also, you're an idiot. have yourself sterilized.

i studied journalism up to the point where one of the students asked about journalistic ethics.

"You poor, sad BASTARDS!" our teacher sneered.

fuck this shit. i'm working in a plastics factory now. i may be poisoning the environment but at least i'm not chasing people who just lost a child to a murdering rapist and asking the parents "how do you feel?"

pic related, it's one of the few journalists i ever respected.