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Stoicpeace He/Him KWAB  1yr ago (image post) 450 thread views #151053

I think all the sci-fi books nerds obsess over (like Starship troopers, Dune, etc...) are boring. It's much better to just read their plot synopsis on wikipedia and the lore shit on wiki articles:marsey57:

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I found Dune pretty dull. The author goes out of his way to make all the action happen off-page; giant battles take place with no POV whatsoever, and Paul's entire insurgency against the Harkonnens is covered in a time skip. It's like a Shakespeare play where Hamlet fights pirates and gets his friends killed when you're not looking, except Shakespeare was limited by the actual stage, and was a good writer.

Dune does have interesting lore, though, with stuff like the Butlerian Jihad, hyper advanced mental training, millennia-long plans by the gussy Illuminati, etc.

So in other words, this but unironically.

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The narration was interesting, being able to see what went on in particular character's heads, and so was the time streams idea, it really is more space fantasy than anything

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I liked the use of omniscient narration. Something like the rhetorical dance between Jessica and Yueh is pretty unique and interesting. But I got tired of everyone being some flavor of hyper-disciplined genius schemer. It could have benefited from the POVs of a couple ordinary soldiers, Fremen, etc. who have to live in this world created by 11-dimensional mental chessmasters.

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