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Prequel Review
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 21:53
by Mr. Teg
A review of House Harkonnen..."a Dune for the simple minded."
http://www.starport.com/sciencefiction/ ... 00928.html
Re: Prequel Review
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 23:28
by Ampoliros
The whole thing would be laughable if it were not Dune, one of the greatest (and most beloved) works of cultural, political and historic extrapolation of our time -- and if Herbert and Anderson hadn’t been paid a million dollars to give it to us.
Sadly, this is Dune, and that million dollars could have paid the advances of a hundred new authors with something original to say.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
Re: Prequel Review
Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:45
by Omphalos
Someone shoot that boy an e-mail and welcome him here.
Re: Prequel Review
Posted: 24 Feb 2010 14:05
by TheDukester
That was awesome!
I'm sure he's just a "hater," though. I mean, everyone knows that not liking Anderhack's work makes you a hater. Kevin said so.
Re: Prequel Review
Posted: 24 Feb 2010 14:17
by lotek
TheDukester wrote:That was awesome!
I'm sure he's just a "hater," though. I mean, everyone knows that not liking Anderhack's work makes you a hater. Kevin said so.
he's a hater all right
Anderson and Herbert regularly give lip service to Dune’s legendary obsession with byzantine "wheels within wheels," but the characters’ "machiavellian" schemes are almost moronic.
EDIT
well this clears the matter
An expanded version of this review will appear in the second issue of SPACE Illustrated, set to hit newsstands around Halloween. Meanwhile, Chris Aylott has a history of hating the Dune prequels. Got another opinion?
el linko:
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