/lit/ - Literature

The consensus on /lit/ is pretty unanimous: it's a great book.

I just finished it a few days ago.
It keeps getting better. It's really kind of brutal, too. If the first chapter doesn't personally let you know that shit is gonna get real then give up.

Read it faggot

>>2304604
It's one of the best sci-fi novels ever written, that's why it's "entry level".

The Legends of dune trilogy is better.

It's quite possibly the best book ever written.

As everyone raves about it I'll just say I thought it was fairly mediocre. The characters are one-dimensional and it barely qualifies as sci-fi because of how unconnected to actual science anything is (fantasy with spaceships). It's better as an exercise in world-building than as a novel IMHO.

Then again I usually read literary fiction like Dostoyevski and shit so perhaps I was expecting the wrong thing.

>>2304604
>>2304617

I'm not even sure whether dune would be considered "entry-level"

Worms in a desert, always sounded boring to me.

>>2304663
That's just one part of the story.

despite the worm's obvious phallic imagery, to me it looks like a gaping vagina. should i be worried about my sexuality?

my english teacher was in the film. Ian Tyler

So which is better: Dune or Once and Future King? I got them both from the library earlier and I don't know which to read first.

>>2304683
Why is everything that just happens to be shaped vaguely like a penis automatically a metaphor for one?

OP here. That does it, i'm buying this.

>>2304648

is that why you spelled Dostoevsky wrong?

My friend bought it for me cause she heard I liked sci-fi.
I tried hard getting through it, but it's just so damn slow and boring at times. Maybe it was groundbreaking when it was published but I don't feel it has aged well.

>>2304726
Sometimes a giant, penis-shaped animal with a slutty, gaping vaginamouth is just a giant, penis-shaped animal with a slutty, gaping vaginamouth.

>>2304751
It's a worm man, worms are worm-shape because that's the best shape for them to be.

it's good so give it a try. I loved the whole series and I plan to read them all again some day

>>2304648
>barely qualifies as sci-fi because of how unconnected to actual science anything is
>implying ecology (pretty much the central fucking theme) isn't a science

>>2304734
No, that's because I don't actually care about how I spell Dostoevsky.

BTW my sincere apologies for not liking things that you like

>>2304774
>implying a desert planet with an atmosphere consistutes a believable ecology

MEANWHILE, ON THE FOREST MOON OF ENDOR...

>>2304778

apology accepted

>2012
>Ecology and not Planetology

>>2304760
"Worms are just penises which have freed themselves from the human body. Hence does the female species propagate." - President Woodrow Wilson

>>2304782
Have you even read the book?

>>2304795
A very long time ago. I don't remember details.

Was there an explanation for how humanity reached Arakis given that malange is needed for interstellar travel? I've forgotten what it was.