Greetings.
Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:47
I recently joined the forum at DN (aeon). A lot has changed. Now, I've joined Jacurutu as a means of staving off unnecessary reprieve against an honest opinion. I've been what the crazy kids these days call a "lurker" on DN for quite a time... that is, before the dark times following the release of Sandworms.
Please forgive my longwindedness, but I'd like to vent here and now in this first post as a means of skirting personality and whatnot in what I hope will be a long string of quality dialogue with good fellows.
I read Frank Herbert's Dune (series) through and through and through. I love Dune, as a humble person who simply respects the effort, the quality, and the dedication involved in creating such a marvelous story. I appreciate Dune, as a self-sustaining work of art. Naturally, I was excited when Frank Herbert's son was to unfurl the tapestry of Dune.
I bought / read House Atreides, House Harkonnen (more entertaining, at least), and muddled through House Corrino. I bought the "Legends" series, I have allowed it to occupy scant shelf space, but I have refused to crack the cover of any of them. I couldn't wait for Dune "7." I bought them (them?). What happened?
When Hunters was released, I followed several threads on the DN forums, without ever bothering to remark. It seemed that those before me had already more than explicitly shared my sentiments. I read Sandworms. I found that others had perfectly expressed my own concerns. I stopped "lurking" the forums at DN.
A year or so ago, I bought the audiobook of "Paul of Dune." I moved on afterwards. Last week, I couldn't help myself - I bought the audiobook of "Winds of Dune." I must admit that "Winds" did enough to provoke my discomfort, and that it also entertained me in the 15 or so minutes of actually GETTING TO THE POINT (apologies). I decided immediately: "Hey, it's money well spent for bringing this trainwreck to completion, I'm going to audio the Legends series too."
I'm roughly halfway through "The Butlerian Jihad." Now I'm registered at DN and Jacurutu.
Not only have I been disappointed for years at hackneyed so called resolutions to the so-called "Dune Chronicles," I am now unapologetically offended in retrospect to this bullshit.
Dune wasn't simply "unfurled," to quote myself previously - it was stretched and unwoven. They have managed to dethread, rewrite, and recreate an idol of unrighteous abomination.
I resonate with Paul more than ever in his effort to return from the void unscathed.
Have I missed something?
** a final note, my favorite character of FH's Dune was Miles Teg. I let it go initially when they tampered with him, I rescind.
Please forgive my longwindedness, but I'd like to vent here and now in this first post as a means of skirting personality and whatnot in what I hope will be a long string of quality dialogue with good fellows.
I read Frank Herbert's Dune (series) through and through and through. I love Dune, as a humble person who simply respects the effort, the quality, and the dedication involved in creating such a marvelous story. I appreciate Dune, as a self-sustaining work of art. Naturally, I was excited when Frank Herbert's son was to unfurl the tapestry of Dune.
I bought / read House Atreides, House Harkonnen (more entertaining, at least), and muddled through House Corrino. I bought the "Legends" series, I have allowed it to occupy scant shelf space, but I have refused to crack the cover of any of them. I couldn't wait for Dune "7." I bought them (them?). What happened?
When Hunters was released, I followed several threads on the DN forums, without ever bothering to remark. It seemed that those before me had already more than explicitly shared my sentiments. I read Sandworms. I found that others had perfectly expressed my own concerns. I stopped "lurking" the forums at DN.
A year or so ago, I bought the audiobook of "Paul of Dune." I moved on afterwards. Last week, I couldn't help myself - I bought the audiobook of "Winds of Dune." I must admit that "Winds" did enough to provoke my discomfort, and that it also entertained me in the 15 or so minutes of actually GETTING TO THE POINT (apologies). I decided immediately: "Hey, it's money well spent for bringing this trainwreck to completion, I'm going to audio the Legends series too."
I'm roughly halfway through "The Butlerian Jihad." Now I'm registered at DN and Jacurutu.
Not only have I been disappointed for years at hackneyed so called resolutions to the so-called "Dune Chronicles," I am now unapologetically offended in retrospect to this bullshit.
Dune wasn't simply "unfurled," to quote myself previously - it was stretched and unwoven. They have managed to dethread, rewrite, and recreate an idol of unrighteous abomination.
I resonate with Paul more than ever in his effort to return from the void unscathed.
Have I missed something?
** a final note, my favorite character of FH's Dune was Miles Teg. I let it go initially when they tampered with him, I rescind.
respect (not for buying the books and reading them, but for maintaining your sanity. nice!) - greetings and salutations! 
