OT: Dune Series On Audio CD

[Atrocities]

The story is so deep in description that its diluted to the point of absurdity. The story is good, but so bogged down in reteric that following it is difficult at best.

[David E. Gervais]

LoL, that makes me think of when the first Dune movie came out. I went to see it with a friend and i thought it was a great movie. (I never read the book) My friend was of a totally different opinion, he said they basically raped the story and left out all the important stuff.

He told me to read the book, so I did,.. I was amazed at how much of the book they managed to get into the movie. To this day I still like the original Dune, and my friend can't stand the thing.

What is this lesson? "Preconception can spoil an otherwise good movie."

Nuf said, Cheers!

[AMF]

I thought the original books were excellent - one of my Favorites of all time. However, the new series written by his son and some other guy, man it really sucks. Being a dune fanatic I have to keep getting them, but I am more and more dissappointed. The Last one was so bad ("the butlerian jihad" or something like that) I left it on the plane I was one. Couldn't even bring myself to keep it in the house. Awful writing, awful plot and plot devices, just downright bad. The only way it got published was because the publishers knew that they could make money off it since it had the "Dune" name...if it had been a new series it wouldn't have even made the first cut. Blech.

having said that, I can't see how the original books would have been good on audio. Waaay too involved for that. It would indeed put one to sleep.

Just my two cents...

Alarik