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Those are all great. I've also given Dune, the Forever War, and The Stars my Destination.
by tnecniv 10y ago
Those are all great. I've also given Dune, the Forever War, and The Stars my Destination.
- swframe 10y agoI used to give Dune to my teenage relatives and it usually turned them into avid readers; they would thank me later. I noticed that it doesn't hold the interests of the recent teenagers in the family; it is hard to get them to start and even harder to get them to finish. I think competition from the internet, youtube and cellphone is just too strong. That is horrible because developing a passion for reading helps lot in highschool/college/life. I've offered to pay them $100 and they still won't read it!
- morgante 10y agoI recently read Dune (again). In my opinion, it hasn't held up well with the times.
- taneq 10y agoI read most of the Dune books back when I was a teenager, and despite being a usually voracious reader I found them very hard to get into. Worth the effort, mind you, but it's definitely a series which requires some investment.
- peckrob 10y agoThis is very close to how I feel about Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. I read them because many of my friends who were also sci-fi readers raved about them. I enjoyed Red Mars but I really had to slog through Green Mars and Blue Mars. Red Mars was fun and interesting, but I could have done without a few hundred pages of Sax Russell talking about plants in Green Mars. I think worldbuilding books take a certain level of investment, even among voracious readers.
- barrkel 10y agoDune is very close to a revenge fantasy. I read it for the first time a year or two ago and was not particularly impressed.
- nl 10y agoI read a lot when I was a young teenager (pre-internet, and didn't have a TV, so I went through around a book a day). Much of it was SciFi. I never found Dune all that great.
- yumaikas 10y agoI enjoyed the first Dune book, solely on the amount of world building in the book. But I never read any of the others other than the 3rd one, as Herbert seemed to get a bit long in the tooth with all the grandiose plans involving the god emperor after a bit.