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Oct 22, 2017
Michael Finocchiaro
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I reread Dune for the first time in several decades and immensely enjoyed it. I also went back to watch the original cult feature film by David Lynch and had quite mixed feelings - while it was close to the overall aesthetic that Frank Herbert describes with the gorgeous desert sets and the terrifying worms, the parts of the story that were necessarily culled out was disturbing (that and the woeful special effects at the time trying (and IMHO failing) to visualize the personal shields t ...more
I reread Dune for the first time in several decades and immensely enjoyed it. I also went back to watch the original cult feature film by David Lynch and had quite mixed feelings - while it was close to the overall aesthetic that Frank Herbert describes with the gorgeous desert sets and the terrifying worms, the parts of the story that were necessarily culled out was disturbing (that and the woeful special effects at the time trying (and IMHO failing) to visualize the personal shields t ...more
Reasons I’m putting this book on hold
1. Almost everyone recommended to continue reading it -even if I’m clearly suffering and bored because of it-, so I decided not to read it 🐌
2. Almost everyone shared the idea not to watch the movie before reading the book first, so I decided to watch the movie first ASAP 🐌
3. Today is Valentine’s day, and he’s not here 🍊
4. HaMiT, the reading buddy #1, told me to drop it. So I dropped it and you can’t say that I don’t value people’s opinion 🐌
5. I lied in ...more
1. Almost everyone recommended to continue reading it -even if I’m clearly suffering and bored because of it-, so I decided not to read it 🐌
2. Almost everyone shared the idea not to watch the movie before reading the book first, so I decided to watch the movie first ASAP 🐌
3. Today is Valentine’s day, and he’s not here 🍊
4. HaMiT, the reading buddy #1, told me to drop it. So I dropped it and you can’t say that I don’t value people’s opinion 🐌
5. I lied in ...more
so imagine you're a hero - slender, strong, handsome, smart. everyone likes to do that. in the broadly-defined west, stories have been the process of people understanding themselves as these heroes. i think frank herbert was interested in both extending this tradition and exploring its mirror opposite; heroes being understood as people. heroes not only as deeply fallible individuals, but as part of a species indelibly destined to repeat the same failures over and over until the music stops. the
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