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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yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 4 days agoDune 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.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 days ago
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Don’t you mean boomers. Dune was published in 1965.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 3 days 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.
AlexLost@lemm.ee 4 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.
uuldika@lemmy.ml 4 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.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 days ago
The Reddit spillover effect is noticable
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
People post bad takes on social media - the Lemmy project is clearly failed!
nico198x@europe.pub 4 days ago
the Human Project? understandable, really.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
jesus christ i thought you said “marxist”, that sure changes the tone of your comment
Faildini@lemmy.world 4 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.
AlexLost@lemm.ee 3 days ago
So, just some advice, avoid Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen at all costs. I’m totally okay with not being spoon fed every detail of what’s happening as I read, but that’s not for everyone either. I first read them when I was a teen some 30 years ago and never found it hard to keep track of anything. I was too eager to find out what was going to happen next! The whole story is flush with character nuance so I could usually grasp who was saying/thinking what once things got going
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 4 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.
AlexLost@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I have. I like em too. I don’t neglect what came before because there is something new.