Dune

[Valka]

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[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Valka]

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[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting.  I've always thought the two series are extremely similar in their strengths and weaknesses.  Rich, rich, multilayered immersive milieus, and plots stretched out longer than needed for purely PLOT purposes by a factor of five or more.  But the worlds of them are just wonderful, wonderful places to visit as long as you're safe from the goblins or Harkonnens.

I can see where one might find Dune too stabby and poisony, or Lord of the Rings infested with fairies and just as well bring on the flying pink unicorns covered with hearts, but y'know Valka?  I would have expected the kitteh lady to go for the unicorns and not the stabby.  I bet this is a "favorite Doctor Who is when you were 12"-type deal...

(Baker for me, too.)

[Vishniac]

[argument]The books are really good.  The books are much better than the adaptions.[/argument]  It is that simple.

I won't deny that the books are a classic. That's something objective.
However they are not good for everybody since I didn't like them. I didn't like the story and what is inside.
That's perhaps why I like the movie: because it is not like the book.

Dune was a major, MAJOR influence on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, so there are a lot of fans here...

In SMAC's manual, they give also Frank Herbert's The Jesus Incident" as a major influence. I went to the nearest library to get him and, hey, that's sure some kind of SMAC: drones, punishment spheres, agressive native lifeforms...

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah, all that, just not nearly as good.

[Valka]

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[Buster's Uncle]

I do have a passing familiarity with Dragonlance, and I've read a couple of Darkover books, which weren't bad at all.  (Landing and Heirs of Hammerfall.)

I was actually about 15 for my first Who.

So, do I ask you which Romanna here, or do you want to start a thread?

[Unorthodox]

Well, I didn't get into fantasy literature (other than the usual fairy tales kids read) until I was in my 20s. In 1985 a friend loaned me her copy of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, and I was hooked by about the second page. My favorite character in that series (Dragonlance) is Raistlin, a foul-tempered, cynical mage. My least-favorite characters are about equally the "goody two-boots" Goldmoon and Sturm. They're so Lawful Good, they make my grandmother's overly-sweet icing recipe seem bland.

Geek time:  First or second Halloween married, we decided to do the "grown up" thing and have a costume party.   The boss dressed as Crysania, and I as Raistlin.  My friend come as Caramon and Tika.  The other people failed to dress at all.  Tried the costume party one other year before giving up, then a few more normal parties, including one where I put the entire living room set on the front lawn, lit the grill, had my friends over, and proceeded to have a horror movie marathon open to all trick or treaters.  Most thought hot dogs were the neatest trick or treat ever.   

Sorry, pre-digital ages, no pics. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Hot dogs DO sound like the neatest trick or treat ever...

[Unorthodox]

Times change.  Tried that our first couple carving parties...


Pizza's easier.   

Besides there was something to that 70's era orange and green paisley living room set with ancient TV all out on the front lawn that was just awesome, and worth it for all the WTF looks we got.   

[Buster's Uncle]

You don't have a scanner?  I KNOW there's photos.

[Unorthodox]

There MIGHT be of the costumes.  There's not of the living room set on the front lawn.  Wasn't so picture happy back then. 

[Valka]

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[Buster's Uncle]

Would anyone care to praise and/or bash the Lynch movie?

I hated it, but that's a very complicated issue, because there was much brilliance therein, too, so long post I sorta need something to bounce off and get motivated to get into.