/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13496315]

What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.13496345]

>>13496315
I'm curious about this book as well anon

[Anonymous No.13496367]

>>13496315
the best sci-fi opera of all time.
>the spice must flow

[Anonymous No.13496411]

[Anonymous No.13497160]

>>13496315
>>13496345
This >>13496367 right here.
This is my all time favorite book. It's not just a generic scifi book. It has elements of all types of stories.

[Anonymous No.13497271]

>>13497160
/thread

[Anonymous No.13497307]

>>13497160
It's Hamlet+Lawrence of Arabia in space.

[Anonymous No.13497351]

>>13496315
hurrrr janny!!!!!1!

[Anonymous No.13497426]

>>13496315
It's probably the only sci-fi novel I'd recommend to someone who isn't into the genre. (Ignoring the giant shitstorm constantly surrounding the big 3 dystopias)

[Anonymous No.13497598]

>>13496315
A really good fucking book

[Anonymous No.13497636]

Best political intrigue space opera there is. Unironically a bretty nice essay about commune culture, hardship, religion, specially Muslims.

[Anonymous No.13497654]

>>13496315
>>13496345
You must have clinical autism to be able to get through it entirely.

[Anonymous No.13497768]

>>13497426
>1984
>BNW
>451?

[Anonymous No.13497991]

>>13497426
I pitched it to a dude who scoffs at fiction, and he's willing to give it a try. He's into theology and economics.

[Anonymous No.13499027]

>>13496315
>>13496345
>>13496367
>>13497160
Fuck its reddit in here. I get that summertime means the collective teenage zoomer gen plauges us but fuck me do you bring the collective iq down. Seriously its like you fucks are hitting post between juul hits. The conversation insnt any deeper than babies first weed edible. Its a fucking book, and an entry level one at that. Stop fawning over it like your wifes boyfriend finally let you wear cosplay to the movie theater.

Lurk mor faget.

[Anonymous No.13499046]

>>13499027
>Its a fucking book, and an entry level one at that

Exactly, so stop getting so worked up over it.

[Anonymous No.13499294]

>>13497991
Punch him in the dick for me.

[Anonymous No.13499658]

Was it accelerationism ?

[Anonymous No.13499669]

>>13496411
im at option 3 now but after reading god emperor i just need to know in what direction he was taking things so im gonna move to option 4

dont care about the fanfiction shit at the bottom

[Anonymous No.13499678]

>>13499027
I'm a zoomer and I'm here all year baby.

[Anonymous No.13499710]

[Anonymous No.13499740]

>>13499027
Go back to spamming the catalog with Ulysses threads faggot

[Anonymous No.13499875]

>>13496315
I am about halfway through the book. Great world building and all of his characters are really fucking great. All of them except for the main character sadly. Fortunately all the other characters are more interesting and it has many POV characters.

Paul's whole thing though is that he's destined to be like a prophet or something and can practically read minds, see into the future, is a perfect fighter, and is smarter than everyone. And everyone loves him. Even his main adversary is sexually attracted to him.

[Anonymous No.13499899]

>>13499875
You don't see the downside to Paul's life until the second book.

[Anonymous No.13499940]

>>13499899
I don't think I'll read the second book.

[Anonymous No.13500123]

>>13496315
MZEO

[Anonymous No.13500204]

>>13496315
fanfic tier writing
not even joking

[\˚ㄥ˚\ !8zLiETfTxw No.13500324]

>>13499658
In a way - Paul is at first focused on walking the golden line or whatever, but soon realizes that the whole thing has escaped his control and the only way forward is to let everything ripen to a critical moment when it can be tweaked and offset the outcome.

>>13500204
the main reason books like this get this criticism is that they featured characters powerful on many different axes. These characters have flaws, doubts, and meaningful struggle, but their limitations beg the question for brainlets: "what if my guy didn't have those problems?" and then they engender retarded fanfiction. The other likely criticism - that they're too full of tropes - is in my opinion trumped by the fact that the assholes are always talking about books that brought the tropes they reference into vogue.

[Anonymous No.13500357]

>>13496411
>>13499669
>im gonna move to option 4
Its worth it but admittedly I am a Frank Herbert fanboy. Avoid the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson books like the plague.

[Anonymous No.13500366]

>>13500324
The overarching trope that the Dune series is based on is Greek tragedy. Why else do you think the family is called Atreides?

[Anonymous No.13500394]

a horribly bad book series

[\˚ㄥ˚\ !8zLiETfTxw No.13500453]

>>13500366
I mean, definitely. I'm not talking about The Main Trope so much as I am pointing out that many complaints about classic books as "fanfiction" are related to traits of those settings that were at the time somewhat innovative (even if reliant on previous trope structures) and if nothing else were grounded in a consistently challenging universe. If you want, you can say that fanfiction is just another word for an age-old phenomenon; I just think most of "true" fanfic culture is so dead in the head that it doesn't come out as a coherent, exciting addition to a creative heritage. People who aren't familiar with the origins of an idea that has currency will often bash the authors' "plagiarism" when they encounter it.

[Anonymous No.13500511]

>>13499027
Summer has no impact on the amount of posts on 4chan. This also goes for quality

You pretend that /lit/ has ivy league discussions outside of summer, how cute.

[Anonymous No.13501754]

The best part of the book was reading about the weird cult-like religions.

[Anonymous No.13501859]

>>13499027
Yeah honestly people are fucking jerking this book off so hard. It's a good sci-fi story with some interesting concepts like the terraforming but Jesus Christ Reddit!