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Trailer looks great.  I normally would post this in Kopf's movie trailer thread but I wanted to ask the forum at large:

Anyone read this?  Recently?  Opinions?  I've been liking scify/fantasy more and more these days but at 800 pages long I don't want to dive in if it hasn't held up well as a book.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4

It's a fantastic book.

I saw the last (?) movie, and it was a disappointment.
IIRC, it was basically the 8 major events of the book but little else to tie those events together.
If I hadn't read the book it would have made no sense whatsoever.
It reckon it would take a movie at least 20 hours long to cover the book.

The book is a series, no?  So is Dune 1 complete or does it leave you hanging for book 2, 3, etc.?

It's a trilogy. I read it years ago. I'm not much of a reader, but I couldn't put them down.

It will leave you hanging, IMO.

Not to mention all of the spin-off and origin stories written by Frank and his son, Brian...

I am looking forward to this latest iteration.
I really wish the H.R. Giger designed/Alejandro Jodorowsky adaption wasn't so unbelievably bad (and unproduced)...it had massive potential. H.R. Giger did say he had wished he could have worked on the film adaptation with David Lynch. Sadly, that never happened.

I don't have all of the books by Frank and Brian as I am only collecting them in hard cover but I do have the original trilogy, The Prelude to Dune trilogy, and the Legends of Dune trilogy. Still need to find the Heroes of Dune trilogy but when I was really tracking stuff down, they were still changing up and finalizing the Heroes storyline/titles.

Loved the Trilogy, the movie was 'ok'... I remember liking it, but being a bit disappointed that they didn't stick to the story better, but was a pretty insurmountable task...

This new trailer looks pretty Awesome!  I hope they turn it into a 3+ movie franchise  [thumbsup]

I read the trilogy some 40 or so years ago so I don't remember much.  Might actually be an interesting re-read with some of what is going on in the world today.

You and me, Howie.  DMF bookclub!

But you can't beat this ..classic

http://youtu.be/mWq15lDh8yM



And yes the books are riveting as good as Foundation by Asimov 

Got my copy.  Starting tomorrow.

You in?

Maybe.

It'll be very hard to top that.

https://youtu.be/NE_-0IdWioU

I'm 225pp in.  It's getting good.  [thumbsup]

So, I'm a bit late to the party.  I listened to book one through Audible and I'm wondering if I "read" the same thing you all did.

I hated it.  I finished the book and had no desire to ever listen to the rest of the story.  I'll see the movie when it's available online but that's about all I can handle.  :-\

Read the books. You'll thank me.

It would be the same thing I just listened to. There's no way I'd ever repeat that process.

I'd sooner mount the Care Bear as a hood ornament on the mustang before subjecting myself to that book again. 

I tried to, years ago.  I got maybe 2/3 of the way through and realized I wasn't at all enjoying it, just turning pages to try and finish it.  That was it.  The movie was less effort, but no better.

Is it so wrong of me to have loved the David Lynch version?  :-X

I read the 1st book in the series in my teens. Came back and read it again as an adult, along with all the other books in the series (sequels and prequels.) One of my all time favorite SciFi adventures!

I finished it in December in the anticipation of the movie which is now delayed.

I really liked the world building and story.  The writing was a little meh, but what are you gonna do.  Not sure I'll continue to subsequent books in the series but I'm glad I read the first.



Now that I see Apple has a Foundation series coming based on the Asimov series, I may tackle that classic.  Hmmm....

May I suggest Wool, Shift & Dust (The Silo Trilogy)

Mind blowing. At least it was for me.

Asimovs Foundation series is another great one!