Re: Dune 2

On 3/10/24 10:44 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <usleon$373ft$1@dont-email.me>,
Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <uscmfk$1422v$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

The director definitely want to do Dune Messiah.
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But after that, who knows. Things get weird with
half-worm half human rulers, and gholas.

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I liked Dune Messiah.  Children of Dune, however...
in the memorable words of old time usenetter Brett
Jolly (Trolly?  I forget...) "My willing suspension
of disbelief chewed a hole in the back of my skull
to escape, and fled shrieking into the night."
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That's the last Dune I ever read.  God-Emperor of
Dune, as near as I could tell, was everything I
hated about Children of Dune to the fourth power.
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 OTOH, I hated DM, and rather liked COD & GEOD, although apparently
not sufficiently to follow things after that.

In my very humble opinion, you didn't miss much. A million years ago here in rasfw, I mentioned Heretics of Dune (aka My Own Private Duncan Idaho) as the worst SFF "turkey" I had finished reading. For the life of me, I don't know why I then went on to read Chapterhouse: Dune, but I did, and it was not much better. At this remove, I don't remember a whole lot of either one - my sense is that they weren't "throw at the wall" bad, but they were really disappointing.
Tony