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Re-reading Dune many years later I found it to be pretty cringey. Laurence of Outer Space basically. Maybe the 2nd book was better ...?
by rajacombinator 7y ago
Re-reading Dune many years later I found it to be pretty cringey. Laurence of Outer Space basically. Maybe the 2nd book was better ...?
- tom_mellior 7y agoI wouldn't have put it like you, but I too was unimpressed by Dune. All the religious/mystical stuff didn't appeal to me at all. I wonder if it's partly an age thing: I only read Dune in my 30s. The more "typical" nerd journey would have been to read it in my teens. I don't know if I would have liked it back then, but I'm sure I would have viewed it differently, both then and now.
- RangerScience 7y agoWow. You, uh, missed, well... a lot. Just on one note, the entire aspect that the prophecies Paul steps into were literally fabricated as sort of sleeper memes for later use? Like, of course that's cringe worthy, of course it reeks of foreign savior complexes, _it was built to be that_. The next three books get increasingly philosophical and many people don't like them, but I very much do.
- voxl 7y agoThis may come as a surprise to the fanatics of Dune, but there are actually some of us who finished it and just rolled our eyes at the end. It was subpar for me in just about every way, and cringey would be an apt description of the entire experience.
- RangerScience 7y agoWell, yes. I would go so far to say that _usually_, when one doesn't like something that many other people do, it's because they're missing what drew those other people in.