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Once again I'm trying to plow my way through Dune Lordling Send a noteboard - 17/10/2009 04:56:15 PM
This must be my third of fourth time trying to read Dune. My best result this far has been the part where the kid who ought to ripped apart piece by piece for being so disgusting, and the only tolerable character in the book are left to the desert. (Paul and Jessica, I think they're called).

1. How the hell can you like Dune? It's supposed to be, like, a masterpiece, after all. More like a piece of crap.

2. How can one tolerate the characters? They're inhuman and arrogant (so, so arrogant!) and just plain disgusting. My favourite characters are the Harkonnens :D

3. How do you pronounce Kwisatz Haderach? I say it like it was Germany (well, more like if it were Finnish, but that wouldn't tell much)

4. WHAT do words like faufreluches (which I guess isn't English), quasi-fief, fief-complete, hodded, baliset, gestalten etcetcetc... mean?
Don't answer that :D I like the language of the book, though. Shows how much English there still is for me to learn. But it's hard!
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Once again I'm trying to plow my way through Dune - 17/10/2009 04:56:15 PM 1342 Views
i just reread in september - 17/10/2009 07:34:11 PM 1642 Views
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Why DUNE is considered a classic. - 18/10/2009 05:03:54 AM 1169 Views
I loved it, and the characters, and the world, and the writing. - 18/10/2009 06:35:33 AM 826 Views
I love Dune. - 18/10/2009 10:04:10 AM 1163 Views
I have a similar problem with Erikson - 18/10/2009 10:42:07 AM 794 Views
I didn't find it hard to read at all - 18/10/2009 06:19:50 PM 1079 Views
For those answering this thread - Did you find the characters disgusting, arrogant and unlikeable? - 20/10/2009 01:51:38 AM 791 Views
Nope - 20/10/2009 11:40:22 AM 821 Views
The protagonist was not that unlikable - 03/12/2009 06:35:35 PM 722 Views
It's just a matter of taste. - 18/10/2009 08:45:33 PM 896 Views
Yeah, you either have great taste, or no taste at all. *NM* - 19/10/2009 01:39:18 AM 403 Views
Re: Once again I'm trying to plow my way through Dune - 08/11/2009 04:22:04 PM 820 Views
You proved it is a valid classic - 03/12/2009 06:41:52 PM 806 Views

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