My childhood!

[sessifet]

I love Dune. I loved all the books. I was happy when the news came that the series was going to be finished according to Frank Herbert's notes.

I read Hunters of Dune and was...not thrilled. It wasn't bad, as such. Just...meh. It progressed the story, but was too condensed and too action-y, so it felt rushed.

I have now picked up Sandworms of Dune after buying it about a year ago and...no. Oh gods in heaven, no.



The Leto II ghola turning into a fucking sandworm and then turning back again into a toddler? What the bleeding fuck?! What in the name of all that is holy were they sodding thinking? Did someone pass 'round the stupid juice and skipped me?

Also? Bloody fucking sandworms, having been altered to thrive in water, are now creating 'ultra spice'? What in the name of the almighty Cthulhu buggering ever living fuck?

I'm not sure this can get any worse...



Pass the fucking booze, people, because I've not finished it yet, and I fear what will happen if I finish this in a sober state.

Comments

[bunnyk.livejournal.com]

Erk. *hug* I loved all the books, but haven't read the two you mentioned, and have no intention of doing so. Did you survive Sandworms?

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Urgle. I found the last three Dune books actually written by Herbert to be pretty hard going. I have an extra long pole with which not to touch anything in the series he didn't actually write himself and your post makes this sound like one of my better decisions...

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I only managed the first three or so, and that was when I was in my teenage rabid SF-reading years.