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Just learned from the movies.

@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml

May read the books later.

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll be honest with you, for a long while I thought the user was an Arab

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just really love Dune. And desert rodents rule.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My favorite Sahara animal is the sand cat

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

They're so cute for being such badass hunters.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the type of thing that I'd want to pet, but it'd probably murder me.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember reading that they are the most lethal of all wild cats in terms of hunting success. Like twice that of a lion.
That may be the african black footed cat (also fing adorable). I think they are both very high on the list.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

No it's very small, smaller than a house cat, they don't seem to like being pet though

[–] GlueBear@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dune and its consequences have been a disaster for the Arab people.

Ask me how I know

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago
[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They also have a mouse as an icon and avatar...

It all makes sense now...

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... It's not a mouse, It's a Fennec, a desert fox

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OOOOHHHHHH

...I think they said it was a mouse in the movies, but I could be wrong...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Damn, little critter

[–] D61@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

May read the books later.

Word of advice, stop at the third one.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Disregard this comment, read the second trilogy and decide for yourself. I really enjoy all 6 and I think the 4th is probably my favourite.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard... mixed things about the ones after the fourth one.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A chunk of the middle section of the book series is just "what was going on somewhere else n the universe besides the antics of Paul and his Kids on Dune".

spoilerSome of the books made some choices that kinda felt in conflict with things presented in the first four. The longer the series goes on, the ... well... more incompetent all of the ubermench seem to be but I never could figure out if it was an intentional decision by the authors or not.

The final chunk of books written by Herbert's son without his dad. I think I only made it through two before calling it quits. They were just prequels that didn't feel like they added anything to the lore or add interesting stories to the series.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it seems to be prequels and spin-offs past a certain point and mostly written by an author who is not on the same level as the original author, right?

[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The first six books are original. The others are written by Bryan and are generally not liked.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago
[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First chunk of the series is by the original author Frank Herbert, then his son Brian started helping for the next chunk of books. Then Frank died and his son found materials in a forgotten safety deposit box (or so the claim goes) and Brian wrote some more books with help from some other people who'd helped in previous books.

From my experience, the farther along the books go, they shift to being less Dune and slide into a more typical Sci-Fi/Fantasy with Dune-y aesthetics.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Noted.

Seems the rest of the series is just "extra stuff," if you want to peruse them, but nothing truly interesting or consequential.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

(Just my opinions, so, keep that in mind.)

More like explaining things that didn't need to be explained.

spoilerThe Butlerian Jihad is wrapped up, pretty sure the explanation of what the Golden Path was supposed to lead humanity to overcome is revealed/resolved, the reasons for the conflict in the third book are wrapped up with the resolution of the Butlerian Jihad being finished. So kind of consequential if you wanted the story to "end" but then the series stops being a metaphor about things (like the first part of the books could be argued for) and just a regular sci-fi story.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that last part seems kinda bad, ngl

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've only read the first two so far, and the 2nd was good, but not on the same level as dune 1. Is the third worth reading?

[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really liked Heretics, and god-emperor is widely agreed to be one of the best if not the best of the whole series. 3 is a bit slow, but none of them are bad.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

God emperor of dune is by far the best but needs the preceding volumes to build up to it

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It moves along the story, but from the other replies to my comment, I didn't get Dune-pilled hard enough. =)

Its not bad, though, don't get me wrong.

For my money, I could have stopped at the third and probably would have had a pretty high opinion of the series. The fourth one, for me anyways, was interesting in that it had a very different tone but I was reading the books back to back and it felt different enough that it was jarring to my expectations.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Muad’Dib
Muad'Dibber
Muad’Dibbest

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Ahmed'Dibbest

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)