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Old 11-25-2020, 12:19 PM   #7080 (permalink)
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Dune sucks

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Well, my memory is awful so I have no recollection of that one (although I do seem to have read it and rated it as 2/5). I've read Hyperion, which I really liked, Fall of Hyperion, which was a bit disappointing, then Ilium which I found so terrible and off-putting that I stopped looking into this guy altogether.
I think I read two, then stopped, no particular reason. But I think the first was so different that it was going to be hard to follow it up.
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I think Hyperion borders on horror, but speaking of Dune, I am just now reading it for the first time and so far so great. Very cinematic, reads like a screenplay. I hear the guy goes on some weird homophobic tangent in a later novel but this one so far seems free of overt prejudice (apart from maybe an undercurrent of misogyny).
I'd agree; the Shrike, after all, is straight out of HR Giger's worst nightmares.
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Hyperion looks pretty duney
Not in the least.
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It ends dumb.
I see what you did there.
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