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Old 09-09-2020, 07:21 PM   #25571 (permalink)
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I tried reading the second book but it at least started out way more boring than the first so I dropped it. You're saying I should give it another shot?
I think you should. The first three books are pretty solid actually. Their fingerprints are all over Star Wars, comics and a lot of the pulp sci-fi that emerged in the mid 70's through the 80's. Things get really whacky once they jump forward around 3500 years in God Emperor Of Dune (Book 4) though.
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I often read about people who think that the fourth book was the very best.
For me, it was just a leap forward in the story - and a good one at that.
The first six - really, that’s about all you really need.
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I tried reading the second book but it at least started out way more boring than the first so I dropped it. You're saying I should give it another shot?
Hell yeah. It’s not like you’re going to die not having read thousands of better books. Keep on with the series you already know blows the ding dong.
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I'm a genre nerd who loves sci fi and fantasy and Dune is a heavy hitter so why not give it another shot while I'm busy never reading Anna Karenina.
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Book 4 is my favorite too. Would make a great movie all on its own, but it would be very hard to do it justice.
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Speaking of hard opinions on sci-fi/fantasy we should all do a book club reading the Sword of Truth series. That would be this site's crowning achievement.
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Speaking of hard opinions on sci-fi/fantasy we should all do a book club reading the Sword of Truth series. That would be this site's crowning achievement.
That might be fun. Roger Zelazny's series The Chronicles Of Amber has some meat too.
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That might be fun. Roger Zelazny's series The Chronicles Of Amber has some meat too.
I mean does that have all the stuff that would set this forum off like Sword of Truth would? I mean if this site had a larger user base with more variety of opinions like a mid-size 00's forum a Sword of Truth book club could splinter the site.
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