Hello
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 14:58
Hey everybody. I've been following things with the OH for about a year now, just never bothered to register until now. I think I commented once on the Hairy Ticks blog. I'm going to be starting up my annual read through of the series soon so this seems like a good time to join up and make use of the reading groups.
Anyways I'm a 21 year old Dune fan, first read Dune in 2000. I consider myself lucky to have missed all the prequel/sequel shitstorm taking place at the time. I got through CoD when I was still in middle school but I just couldn't handle GEoD at the time. I continually reread the first three books. Somewhere along the line I picked up TBJ in an airport bookstore. Read it, was severely underwhelmed and pretty much forgot about it. Then I heard about PoD. I read some KJA quotes lamenting how confusing Messiah is. I discovered, amazingly enough, that there is a huge gap between Dune and DM that needs to be filled. Bullcrap! Even at twelve I never felt that way. I definitely didn't really grasp what Herbert was trying to say, but I knew he was trying to say something. It's stupid but I took Anderson's descriptions of DM personally. Messiah is my favorite, after the original. I'd even consider it the best but Dune itself holds a special place in my heart. To act like Messiah is an incomplete story, or that it needs to be prefaced in order to make sense, felt like a slap in the face.
So yeah, I guess my slow burning anger has finally gotten me to register. I have to thank you all, reading some stuff here rekindled my interest in Dune. Last year I read GEoD, Heretics, and Chapterhouse and loved them all. I look forward to discussing the novels with everyone.
Also, side note, I have the honor of living a five minute jaunt down the interstate from KJA. My dentist knows him. My dentist didn't like Messiah, either. One of my old scoutmasters is actually his neighbor. No, I won't go down there, I don't want to be featured in a KJA tweet, but I do dream of running into him in public someday. I'll ask him if he can fill in all the gaps in my drywall with some new novels.
Anyways I'm a 21 year old Dune fan, first read Dune in 2000. I consider myself lucky to have missed all the prequel/sequel shitstorm taking place at the time. I got through CoD when I was still in middle school but I just couldn't handle GEoD at the time. I continually reread the first three books. Somewhere along the line I picked up TBJ in an airport bookstore. Read it, was severely underwhelmed and pretty much forgot about it. Then I heard about PoD. I read some KJA quotes lamenting how confusing Messiah is. I discovered, amazingly enough, that there is a huge gap between Dune and DM that needs to be filled. Bullcrap! Even at twelve I never felt that way. I definitely didn't really grasp what Herbert was trying to say, but I knew he was trying to say something. It's stupid but I took Anderson's descriptions of DM personally. Messiah is my favorite, after the original. I'd even consider it the best but Dune itself holds a special place in my heart. To act like Messiah is an incomplete story, or that it needs to be prefaced in order to make sense, felt like a slap in the face.
So yeah, I guess my slow burning anger has finally gotten me to register. I have to thank you all, reading some stuff here rekindled my interest in Dune. Last year I read GEoD, Heretics, and Chapterhouse and loved them all. I look forward to discussing the novels with everyone.
Also, side note, I have the honor of living a five minute jaunt down the interstate from KJA. My dentist knows him. My dentist didn't like Messiah, either. One of my old scoutmasters is actually his neighbor. No, I won't go down there, I don't want to be featured in a KJA tweet, but I do dream of running into him in public someday. I'll ask him if he can fill in all the gaps in my drywall with some new novels.
