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Robspierre wrote:Stuffs entire folded pizza in his mouth not bothering to chew. Orgasms.

Hunchback Jack wrote:So, at the risk of being shouted down, I must admit that I think the parody reviews kind of backfired.

Yes, they were clever, but I think a couple of things blunted their effectiveness:
1) we had a member here contribute to the collection, which meant the "shill" accusation had some (if minor) validity
2) regardless of whether a review is a joke or a shill review, it still games the Amazon review system, or at least abuses it.

Hunchback Jack wrote:So, at the risk of being shouted down, I must admit that I think the parody reviews kind of backfired.

Yes, they were clever, but I think a couple of things blunted their effectiveness:
1) we had a member here contribute to the collection, which meant the "shill" accusation had some (if minor) validity
2) regardless of whether a review is a joke or a shill review, it still games the Amazon review system, or at least abuses it.

HBJ

SadisticCynic wrote:Got mine today.

I'm leaving my 5-star rating standing and I'll explain why, call it the Obama Peace Prize 5-star rating. I'm giving the book 5 stars for starting an important public discussion more than I am for the quality of the actual book.

I'm still only about half way through all the articles because I'm taking my time, notating agreements and disagreements, which is why I think the book and the related discussion it creates is important: It is high time we had more public discussion of why Dune is important, not just as a pinnacle of sci-fi or American Literature, but because I very much believe that humanity is better for its creation.

While it is left to speculation how Frank himself would have received each article, I think he would have appreciated this work for what it is: Readers who got an intellectual understanding of his work above pure entertainment, and considered it of value enough to be discussing its merits almost 50 years after its publication.

Its a sad time for DUNE when the primary point of contention centers around the quality (or lack thereof) of current tackings-on to Frank's work. The articles in this book do us a service in focusing on more legitimate concerns. I do of course offer a caveat which I expanded upon here in the Amazon book discussion page for this book: that any scholarly arguments made in the Dune universe must take into consideration the multidimensional aspect of a work where other authors take over for a lost giant.

Ampoliros wrote: Its a sad time for DUNE when the primary point of contention centers around the quality (or lack thereof) of current tackings-on to Frank's work.

liebkraft
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:26 pm Post subject: The weirding way of the Mentat

I recently bought the book 'Dune and Philosophy' (http://www.amazon.de/Dune-Philosophy-Po ... 068&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and I have to say at first sight it looks really got. I hadn't time to read it yet - still reading all Dune-Novels in the chronological order - but I hope to start soon.
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Ampoliros wrote:I have to agree, Lundse's status as an OH aside, his was the best article IMHO. I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Lundse was the only one that I felt actually understood most of Frank's points. There were too many articles that dealt with Paul as a paragon hero and felt mystified at his bad side.

I also liked the "curse of the golden path" article, although that author's other two articles seemed to lose some of its umph.