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Paul's visions in DUNE.

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Paul's visions in DUNE.
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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 6:17 am
(June 14, 2023 at 3:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: A guy I dated years ago loved the book.  He kept after me to read it, being sure I would love it as much as he did.  I hadn't read anything so painful since I had assigned reading in religion classes in high school.  I can't even tell you what it was about as I purged the information almost as soon as I closed the book.

Much more readable is National Lampoon's parody novel Doon, in which Pall Agamemnides and his family are forced to leave their homeworld of Cowboydan for the dessert planet Arruckus, where Pall fulfills his destiny as the Kumquat Haagen-Dazs ('he who can bring many dishes to completion at once').

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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 6:22 am
(June 15, 2023 at 3:15 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Maybe you should try looking for the Syfy Dune and Children of Dune miniseries. If you're not interested in reading several long books or waiting years for Denis Villeneuve to finish his adaptations of the Dune series, they have the adaptation of being about as faithful as you can reasonably expect from a low-budget basic cable miniseries. They're on YouTube, and a channel called Orodreth Artaresto has all six episodes of both series.
I tried watching "Children of Dune". That dog won't hunt. No faulting anybody, just not my thing now. I do plan to get the books. Started the second one when it came out but circumstances had changed. (High school student, then military, wildly different situations. I wound up reading The Mote in God's Eye on the side of an erupting volcano while smoking black Pakistani hash laced with opium. Different input.
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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 5:20 pm
(June 14, 2023 at 5:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 14, 2023 at 5:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: 685 pages in paperback.

I’m aware.

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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 5:36 pm
(June 15, 2023 at 5:20 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(June 14, 2023 at 5:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’m aware.

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Sorry, didn't know we were alone here.

I’ll add it to the list of stuff you don’t know.

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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 5:42 pm
And thereby double the size of the list.
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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Herbert makes it clear that Paul's visions were alternate timelines, to be chosen or avoided. Not sure what's so hard about that.

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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 9:34 pm
(June 15, 2023 at 9:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Herbert makes it clear that Paul's visions were alternate timelines, to be chosen or avoided. Not sure what's so hard about that.

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS THE FLASHBACKS CAN BE A LITTLE CONFUSING.
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RE: Paul's visions in DUNE.
June 15, 2023 at 10:34 pm
(June 15, 2023 at 9:34 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(June 15, 2023 at 9:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Herbert makes it clear that Paul's visions were alternate timelines, to be chosen or avoided. Not sure what's so hard about that.

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS THE FLASHBACKS CAN BE A LITTLE CONFUSING.

So read the books already. Any fool knows that the book is always better than the movie anyway.

Oh, before your "685 pages!" reply lands again, I'm 800 pages into Weinberg's 980-page history of WWII, A World at Arms. Taken me about a week so far.

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June 16, 2023 at 7:21 am
Sorry I've pissed in so many Post-Toasties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_o...erminology
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June 16, 2023 at 7:53 am
(June 16, 2023 at 7:21 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Sorry I've pissed in so many Post-Toasties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_o...erminology

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