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4923546 No.4923546 [Reply] [Original]

>Implying it isn't the best Science Fiction novel ever written.

>> No.4923559

>>4923546
>implying it didn't have the best movie adaptation

>> No.4923646
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4923646

that is what i'm implying

>>4923559
dude that movie was the shit

>> No.4923673

>>4923559
the dune movie adaption was absolutely terrible

>> No.4923688
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4923688

>space opera for manchildren
>best Science Fiction novel ever written.

>> No.4923696
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4923696

>implying

>> No.4923701

>>4923688
Awwww shit, Solaris was awesome as well.
But Dune still holds a special place in my heart

>> No.4924840
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4924840

>implying that pseudo sci-fi shit will ever compare to the works of Tolkien

>> No.4925096
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4925096

check and mate

>> No.4925118

>>4923546
That's not Hitchhikers Guide.

>> No.4925141

>>4925118
>Hitchhikers Guide
>sci-fi (as in not funny haha string of events)
Pick one.

>> No.4925146

>>4925096

Asimov can't write for shit.

>> No.4925191

I just watched the sci-fi channel version of dune last night, it was surprisingly good. I thought the book sucks mainly due to herbert being a terrible writer, but the story is great.

>> No.4925201
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4925201

>>4923673
>>4923646
no no no, the other dune movie

>> No.4925248

>>4923696

This is probably the most polarizing sci fi novel I've ever heard of online. Will give it a shot after I'm finished with these fucking Hyperion tomes.

>> No.4925418

The first Hyperion book is way better than the first Dune book. Unfortunately all the sequels for both series suck.

>> No.4925437

>>4925418

Are they at least standalone novels? I read reading the first part of a series only to have the plot just stop abruptly.

>> No.4925474

>>4925437
Hyperion ends abruptly, but I think that is an aesthetic decision rather than a cheap cliffhanger. One of the great strengths of the first Hyperion novel is the mystery of it.

Dune is pretty self-contained, although the sequels add layers of ambiguity onto the events of the first book.

>> No.4925556

>>4925096
This

>> No.4925609

>>4925201
david lynch one is better :^)

>> No.4926008

>>4923696

The books are shit

>> No.4926013

>>4923546
A bunch of filthy sand fucks with a mary sue protag.

Woohoo!!

>> No.4926061

>>4923696
Shadow is a really, really awful. In a way that is almost offensive. I've heard that the followup books are a lot better, but I don't know when I'm going to give them another shot.

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>>4923546

Pfft.

>> No.4926200

I'm reading Dune right now, and while I enjoy it, I'm just not as into it as I thought I'd be.

I probably went in with expectations and will like it more when looking back on it for what it truly was, not what I had hoped it would be.

>> No.4926215

>>4926061
I shouldn't take the bait, but I will anyway because I love to argue.

>> No.4927378

>>4925191
How is Herbert a terrible writer

>> No.4927391

>all those pulp picks

and people complain about sci-fi not being taken seriously

>> No.4927806

>>4927378
4chan critic