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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It seems like you really don’t like it. What makes you say that?

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dune is Twilight for boys. Although the movies are better than the books though, the actual story is spectacularly awful. Have you ever had someone try to explain it to you? It’s unhinged. And the book is so poorly written from a literary perspective.

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    • AlexLost@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is just a sad take. The writing is brilliantly grounded in reality for a fantastical story. It’s fricken weird AF, but many of us are here for that. It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay if you don’t like it, but calling it poorly written is infantile.

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      • uuldika@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve noticed a lot of infantile and absurdly maximalist takes on Lemmy lately. it’s kind of souring me on the project.

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      • Faildini@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I actually really like the story of Dune, but I kind of have to agree that the writing leaves a lot to be desired. The fact that Herbert constantly switches perspectives with no indication in the middle of chapters, or sometimes even in the middle of paragraphs, drives me up the wall. I almost couldn’t finish them because of that.

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dune’s prose is stilted at best, the actual story is ridiculous, and the characters are unprincipled and shallow. You sound like someone who’s read maybe 100 books in his life.

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    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree. Really dumb stuff. Certainly not watching the Villeneuve movies for the plot. Cults, royalty, magic, psychic powers, people turning into worms, guiding star travel via ESP…geez

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t you mean boomers. Dune was published in 1965.

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, but the book also became really popular among the Gen X crowd, whose hunger for sci fi was fueled by things like Star Wars.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m curious what you think the greatest story ever is. I hope it’s not The Bible.

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is biblical supernatural nonsense written by a racist reactionary narcissist who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.

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    • pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d not looked into Frank before now, but I’ve read 2.5 of the dune books. It’s weird to see he was a self described conservative and libertarian. The whole dune story seems to mock everything he stands for politically. It’s like he was completely unaware of the power structures he was writing about exist across all US (and non-US) political parties.

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The story glorifies a eugenically engineered monarchy and waxes poetic about the evils of homosexuality.

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