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by Senor Barborito 01/06/2003, 9:16am PST |
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Which is partially why I was so amazingly NOT AVAILABLE during vacation. Although most of the reading went on after the server was irrevocably killed, the fact is that I read the book front to back in the course of two and a half VERY socially jam-packed days. Then I spent the next two days rereading certain sections.
What a fucking amazing book. Absolutely unlike anything I've encountered before - a book with the scope of Tolkien that doesn't suck AND isn't dry as fuck.
Kickass.
There's a sort of practical, believable magic system of a kind introduced into a sci-fi setting and if you get into the book it's . . . almost believable. Like the kind of shit you always suspected might be possible with enough concentration or practice. Wholly unlike the usual completely mystical and supernatural bullshit shoveled out of the dung heap yet again into every fantasy novel.
Frank Herbert has shown me what a pile of shit every Orson Scott Card novel is, and for that I owe him a gigantic sucking off.
HLAGULAHGGLAUGHULAG,
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Just read Dune for the first time by Senor Barborito 01/06/2003, 9:16am PST 
Don't read any more in the Dune series. by mrs. johnson 01/06/2003, 9:22am PST
Re: Don't read any more in the Dune series. by curst 01/06/2003, 2:19pm PST
They're good up until after Children of Dune by Alternate789 01/06/2003, 4:05pm PST
First sequel to Dune, *spoiler* by TAFKAM 01/06/2003, 4:17pm PST
Lynch vs. excrable miniseries by up with pod people 01/06/2003, 4:52pm PST
hats were easily the worst part of the miniseries -nt- NT by ydrt 01/06/2003, 5:11pm PST
Re: Lynch vs. excrable miniseries by Chairman DuneLynch 01/07/2003, 1:09am PST
Re: Lynch vs. excrable miniseries by TAFKAM 01/07/2003, 7:42am PST
Re: Lynch vs. excrable miniseries by Bill Dungsroman 01/07/2003, 11:19am PST
Re: Lynch vs. excrable miniseries by Chairman Mao 01/07/2003, 11:39am PST
I think you're all missing out on the most important thing in the movie. by Psik 01/07/2003, 2:40pm PST
Re: I think you're all missing out on the most important thing in the movie. by up with pod people 01/07/2003, 8:37pm PST
For those who haven't seen the miniseries: by Alternate789 01/07/2003, 4:39pm PST
Re: Don't read any more in the Dune series. by mrs. johnson 01/06/2003, 7:50pm PST
opinions on Greg Egan? by Colonel K 01/06/2003, 9:57am PST
Re: opinions on Greg Egan? by Senor Barborito 01/06/2003, 10:16am PST
Re: opinions on Greg Egan? by Zseni 01/06/2003, 10:34am PST
Re: opinions on Greg Egan? by Colonel K 01/06/2003, 10:59am PST
Agreed plus AVOID THE SEQUELS LIKE THE PLAGUE!!! by Mischief Maker 01/06/2003, 11:57am PST
What am I, the fucking invisible man? Jesus Fuck. n/T NT by mrs. johnson 01/06/2003, 12:06pm PST
Calm down Ozzy. And mind your step in the kitchen: the dog's shit itself again. NT by Git 01/06/2003, 6:25pm PST
Tell me about it. (nt) NT by Greg Egan 01/17/2003, 10:10pm PST
Re: Just read Dune for the first time by Lufteufel 01/06/2003, 5:07pm PST
an aside by mark 01/07/2003, 12:34am PST
Re: Just read Dune for the first time by wotan 01/17/2003, 5:17pm PST
Re: Herbert and OSC by ydrt 01/06/2003, 9:27pm PST
Re: Herbert and OSC by Senor Barborito 01/06/2003, 9:36pm PST
Orson Scott Card hates muslimes. by Jhoh Creexul 01/07/2003, 7:48pm PST
Even the ones with hats? Ridiculous. n/T NT by mrs. johnson 01/07/2003, 9:02pm PST
they're called Skull Caps. ERRRR NT by Colonel K 01/08/2003, 1:43am PST
Now reading it myself, and agreeing by Entropy Stew 01/10/2003, 7:33pm PST
Re: Now reading it myself, and agreeing by Bill Dungsroman 01/15/2003, 3:10pm PST
Re: Now reading it myself, and agreeing by No Body 01/17/2003, 3:05am PST
Re: Now reading it myself, and agreeing by Bill Dungsroman 01/17/2003, 11:27am PST
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