Sir Taxalot wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Sir Taxalot wrote:
MaliA wrote:
At the end of the film, MrsA described it as "Tremors meets Star Wars"
Have you seen the 80's Lynch version?
Yes, several times. Visually a bit more Steam Punk than the latest one, which I only got around to seeing last night. I've also read the book several times, plus all the sequels by Frank Herbert, and half a dozen of the prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. It all got a bit much for me by then. And it seems that they're still churning them out ( see the
Dune Franchise page on Wikipedia ).
I quite liked the new Part 1, but couldn't help noticing where it deviates a bit from the book, but then the Lynch version did that quite a lot as well.
I read Dune last year (I think it was last year) and was hooked initially, but I found it was quite saggy in the middle and then rushed at the end. I wasn't sure if I could be bothered to read the sequels. Are they much cop? Is there a point where it's best to stop before it all gets a bit naff?
As you can see, there's a shed load of novels and there are also some short stories that I didn't know about. By the time I'd got to 'Chapterhouse' I was, quite literally, losing the plot. I think I read Messiah more than once and it was very much a 'what happened next' after the original one. It was interesting because it took a turn that I definitely wasn't expecting. I can't really remember much about the other ones, but I did suspect that Frank might be milking the series for all it was worth. But I don't think I ever thought they weren't actually worth reading.
It was a few years later, when my family were asking what I wanted for Christmas and I had no idea. I found the 'Prelude' series and bought the lot, then handed them out to the family to return to me at Christmas, just for convenience. I did find them interesting, particularly to see where the Fremen had originated and how they became the people they were by the time of the original novel. The Butlerian Jihad was also interesting, and maybe even more so now, as it deals with the human fight back against the 'thinking machines' which is where we might be in the future if some of the predictions about AI are accurate. Hope that's not too much of a spoiler.
NB I haven't read any of the 'sequels.'
Novel(s)
Frank Herbert:
Dune (1965)
Dune Messiah (1969)
Children of Dune (1976)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson:
Prelude to Dune series:
House Atreides (1999)
House Harkonnen (2000)
House Corrino (2001)
Legends of Dune series:
The Butlerian Jihad (2002)
The Machine Crusade (2003)
The Battle of Corrin (2004)
Dune sequels:
Hunters of Dune (2006)
Sandworms of Dune (2007)
Heroes of Dune series:
Paul of Dune (2008)
The Winds of Dune (2009)
Great Schools of Dune series:
Sisterhood of Dune (2012)
Mentats of Dune (2014)
Navigators of Dune (2016)
The Caladan Trilogy series:
The Duke of Caladan (2020)
The Lady of Caladan (2021)
The Heir of Caladan (2022)