Just finished "Dune" for the first time!! Dune fans?

[Non Sync]

I'm currently reading Dune, The Battle of Corrin. Haven't read any of the Planet books yet, but besides those I've read them all including National Lampoon's Doon.

For those not familiar with Doon, here is the forward:

Arruckus--men call it Doon, the Dessert Planet. It is a sugar-covered wasteland entirely devoid of entrees, patrolled by a terrifying species of giant pretzel.

This savage world is the setting for an apocalyptic drama. On one side is the evil Baron Vladimir Hardchargin--ruthless, voraclous, extremely fat. Opposing him: young Pall Agamemnides, the teenager who may (or may not) be the Messiah. Pall's only allies are the planet's nomadic tribes, the fiercely religious, sweatsuit-wearing Freedmenmen.

These forces clash in a deadly contest over Doon's one precious resource, a substance found nowhere else in the Universe: the mind-altering liquid known as beer...

 

[clint g]

Ahh Dune, so awesome in so many ways. I think I'm in the minority in that Dune Messiah is my favorite of the books

 

[Danoz]

Wow thanks for all the advice .

I'm reading "Dune: Messiah" already-- I already love the first 100 pages, so I guess I'm golden. I'll check out the miniseries' and movie after "Children of Dune" and then go from there.

 

[DarKush]

Just wanted to say that I loved all three original Dune novels. It took me about 15 years to finish God Emperor of Dune. I just couldn't get into Heretics of Dune, Dune Chapterhouse, or the Butlerian Jihad books. Since I didn't finish Heretics and Chapterhouse I haven't tried to read Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, but from what I've read of the synopses I don't think I would like them. I did enjoy the House trilogy (House Atreides, House Harkonnen, House Corrino), was it called Dune Legends? I got about halfway through Paul of Dune, which I was enjoying. I've got to get it back from the library and finish it.

As for the movies, the Lynch film had great production values and was well cast, but it tried to pack too much story into a 2-hour time frame. The special addition that runs about 4 hours that they used to show on Sci-Fi channel was a lot better.

Sci-Fi Channel's own Dune and Children of Dune miniseries got the story right better, and the flow, but the production values weren't as good. Some of the casting was so-so as well. Though I did like the actors playing Paul, Feyd, Baron Harkonnen, the second Stilgar from Children, the second Duncan from Children. William Hurt was very glacial and boring, a bad turn as Duke Leto, and the actress playing Alia in Children of Dune, while cute, was a terrible actress. I also like how the Sci-Fi miniseries expanded Irulan's role, which I think the co-authors in Paul of Dune picked up on and written into the novel.