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Hello there.
Many thanks to SandChigger for suggesting this (viewtopic.php?t=776&start=60&sid=7d722e ... bbcd14ecfe): I was unaware of this little ritual here amongst the cast out.
I am Raveem, and having vented some long maturing frustration at alt.fan.dune, I thought I'd make an appearance here as well. My position is unambiguous, and certainly not even-handed: I think the "Dune" written by Brian Herbert with his committee is some of the worst writing ever to surface. And in the genre of SF, that is no small achievement (see below).
Of course I hope not to dwell too much on this unfortunate but necessary negativity for Dune fans in these times. Conversely, I'm of the opinion that the original Dune is one of the finest examples of world building, comparable only to other solitary works such as Tolkien's Middle-Earth. As I once mentioned on alt.fan.dune, I truly believe that these two (with a very few sparse augmentations) transcend a genre (speculative fiction) which is otherwise virtually defined by immature writing.
Anyway, greetings to all. Hope to enjoy my time here.
Regards,
Raveem.
Many thanks to SandChigger for suggesting this (viewtopic.php?t=776&start=60&sid=7d722e ... bbcd14ecfe): I was unaware of this little ritual here amongst the cast out.
I am Raveem, and having vented some long maturing frustration at alt.fan.dune, I thought I'd make an appearance here as well. My position is unambiguous, and certainly not even-handed: I think the "Dune" written by Brian Herbert with his committee is some of the worst writing ever to surface. And in the genre of SF, that is no small achievement (see below).
Of course I hope not to dwell too much on this unfortunate but necessary negativity for Dune fans in these times. Conversely, I'm of the opinion that the original Dune is one of the finest examples of world building, comparable only to other solitary works such as Tolkien's Middle-Earth. As I once mentioned on alt.fan.dune, I truly believe that these two (with a very few sparse augmentations) transcend a genre (speculative fiction) which is otherwise virtually defined by immature writing.
Anyway, greetings to all. Hope to enjoy my time here.
Regards,
Raveem.
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Raveem wrote:Of course I hope not to dwell too much on this unfortunate but necessary negativity for Dune fans in these times. Conversely, I'm of the opinion that the original Dune is one of the finest examples of world building, comparable only to other solitary works such as Tolkien's Middle-Earth. As I once mentioned on alt.fan.dune, I truly believe that these two (with a very few sparse augmentations) transcend a genre (speculative fiction) which is otherwise virtually defined by immature writing.
Hmmm. Shades of the nuduneman ....
Well met, Raveem.