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New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:52
by TheHappyYakherd
Hey guys, SandChigger lead my to this site from Twitter. I'm a huge fan of the Movie, and the mini-series both, and I'm think it's about time I start reading the Book. So I joined this forum, because, if reading the book is like watching the movie, it helps to have a few friends to discuss it with...

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:21
by Serkanner
Welcome Home!

If you take the move and multiply it with the series you are still nowhere close as to how wonderful the books are. Reading Dune and the sequels has been a huge influence on my life. A truly HUGE influence.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 06:36
by Freakzilla
Welcome!

Follow along in the Reading Group, ask questions if you need to!

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 07:43
by Alpha Carinae
Hello!

You won't go wanting for subjects to discuss in the books. :) That's one of the great things about them.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 08:52
by lotek
welcome to Shuloch !

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 09:11
by Tleszer
Welcome! :orcs-buttshake:

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 14:02
by A Thing of Eternity
Welcome. I think the differences between the Lynch version and the book will shock you at first, but if you're like I was for that first read you'll be having your mind blown the whole time!

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 16:05
by merkin muffley
Welcome. I think you'll love the books.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 16:24
by lotek
I'd have liked to see the film before reading the books, just to experience that feeling of bafflement one must ... feel when confronted to Lynch's approach of an already complex plot.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 17:21
by SandChigger
Achlan wasachlan! Welcome & Welmet (again)! :D

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 17:22
by A Thing of Eternity
I think my main points of confusion when reading Dune the first time (I'd seen the Lynch version, but not for many years so at least it was a very foggy recollection) was waiting for sound guns to show up, and expecting the Harkonnen to be all diseased and messed up.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 23:36
by Nekhrun
I still think that my first time through the series was the best. I devoured those books. I'd never read so much in so little time before that. It really opened my eyes. You're in for quite an experience.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 14:23
by A Thing of Eternity
I wish I could get that experience back for Dune itself. My rereads of the other books have been closer to the original experience, but that first book somehow lost a little magic for me. I blamed the KJA books at the time, so I'll have to try again in a couple years, I find the negative influence of those books fading with time now that I've stopped reading them.

Re: New guy!

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 15:09
by SandRider
uhhh ... what ?

oh ... oh, yeah ... uh ... so like, welcome to the ... uh ... yeah ...
so just give all your uh ... your water rings to .. uh ... shit, just give em to the HoneyTrap ...
she'll end up with em anyway ...

lessee ... uh ... okay, so like, you got slig-shit duty, man ...
and don't track sand into the hallway ... uh ... somethin else ...

oh yeah ... new guy buys the beer ...

Re: New guy!

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 19:24
by Omphalos
Helloooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Re: New guy!

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 23:16
by Eyes High
Welcome

Re: New guy!

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 18:01
by inhuien
hihihi TheHappyYakherd :D

Re: New guy!

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 10:39
by grandmastercrafter
TheHappyYakherd wrote:Hey guys, SandChigger lead my to this site from Twitter. I'm a huge fan of the Movie, and the mini-series both, and I'm think it's about time I start reading the Book. So I joined this forum, because, if reading the book is like watching the movie, it helps to have a few friends to discuss it with...
(belated) Greetings and Salutations! This is the place to come for discussion, that's for sure - lots of great people and great resources RE Dune here. Far more so than you'll find 'elsewhere' :D