What a great Christmas! This Deluxe Edition of Dune has been on my wishlist for awhile now. That new cover art is just gorgeous and is going to look great on my shelf.
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What is the delux edition? Does it include all the Dune books in one?
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No, it is just Dune. Hang on, let me see what makes this deluxe.
Ok, from amazon:
This deluxe hardcover edition of Dune includes:
· An iconic new cover
· Stained edges and fully illustrated endpapers
· A beautifully designed poster on the interior of the jacket
· A redesigned world map of Dune
· An updated Introduction by Brian Herbert
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Sounds great man. I can still not believe how this book blew me away this year.
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It has definitely earned its place in the Classics for a reason 🙂
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That cover of Dune looks like the poster for Les Miz
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Almost the same!
I’ve never seen Les Mis, only read it. Maybe someday…
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Would’ve been keen to see The Muppet Dune. Kermit as Paul Atriedes, that kind of thing…
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I too would love to see something like that. I just don’t understand why Disney doesn’t make more use of the Muppets. I mean, you can’t even buy the entire tv show on dvd because it was never completely released (I’m only aware of seasons 1-3 being released) and forget about bluray.
I can totally see Miss Piggy as Chany, as a fremen. Very much the warrior woman…
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Just watched Mupper Movie last night. Really doesn’t like rocket science. The Muppet Fahrenheit 451 appeals as well…
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Was that the original Muppet Movie or the 2011 reboot?
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1979 version…
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Nice. I’ll be looking forward to your review.
(that way I can steal all the good parts and create my own Super Review of the movie in January)
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I read all three this year, lots to think about in them. Nice cover!
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That cover is what caught my eye first off. Since I don’t have a first edition or any other “special” hardcover, I figured this would do nicely 😀
By all three, do you mean Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune? Or the 6 book Dune Chronicles chunked up somehow?
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Dune, Messiah and Children. I’d had enough by then!
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Hahahahaa! 😀
Well, if that was enough, glad you stopped when you did. It doesn’t get any easier as the books go on.
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The upcoming movie looks interesting, hope they don’t make a hash of it. Can’t be an easy transfer.
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Well, I heard that they changed Dr Kynes to a woman to make it more “diverse”, so my expectations are at zero.
That’s the problem with really loving a book. Any changes are anathema, but ones you disagree with on a deeper level, well, that is just bad.
I suspect it will do well though. As long as Sting doesn’t show up and strut around 😀
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Oh spare us that!
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Even in spite of Sting, I still enjoyed the Lynch movie. I just had to think of it as an adaptation and not a real transfer.
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I didn’t do so well with that one, I hadn’t read the books when I saw it.
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That must have been a weird experience then. I don’t think I would have gone on to check out the book if that movie was my only introduction 😀
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I don’t think I realised the books were that movie, saw it a long time ago, well half of it anyway 😃 only read the books this year.
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Totally agree, that is one heck of a cover!
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I saw this on a bloggers post (I forget who though) and this was peaking and really caught my attention.
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Looks amazing!
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It does, doesn’t it? Much better than the SFBC version I currently have on my shelf.
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I have the 50th anniversary edition by hodder press which isn’t too bad either
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How’s the quality of it? First google search is a bunch of reddit threads with fans complaining quite, ummm, vociferously….
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Oh hm I didn’t notice any imperfections. I also got Dune Messiah from the same edition and it looks great!
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That is good to hear. Too bad it’s not in hardcover or I’d be tempted to “collect” it…
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Man, that one seems daunting for some reason. It’s going to be great though, I’ll bet. Can’t wait for the show ( sometimes it needed for me as a primer with complex stories ). I hope it works out for you. 🤠
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Dune is probably Herberts most popular and accessible book.
It also stands on its own quite well, so if you like how it ends, you don’t have to try to get through any of the others.
If you like the movie (once it comes out) and then like the book, I’d recommend trying the SF Channel’s miniseries and the 1984 movie by Lynch. Quite different adaptations but gives you a real flavor feast, as it were.
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I’ve never read Dune, much to my shame.
I really should put it on my to-read list.
Have you read it before? If so, is it on your recommended list?
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It is on my List of 100 Books, found here with a link to my review:
https://bookstooge.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/bookstooge-in-100-books/
I’ve chronicled that I’ve read it 3 times, but I know I read it multiple times in highschool and bibleschool, so we’re talking about 6+ times since the early 90’s?
And even though there is a huge list of other Dune books, it really does stand on its own and you can satisfactorily read it as a standalone. Also, at just over 205K words/600 pages, it is not a huge commitment. At least 10% of that is a definition of terms, etc.
SavageDave just read it for the first time this year and loved it. Here’s his review:
https://wordaholicanonymous.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/dune-frank-herbert/
All that can be summed up to say that I love Dune and highly recommend it to everyone, fans of SFF or not.
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Reading this comment, I shall make it one of my 2021 reads!
I’ll also go back and read both of the reviews~
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This is a test for the jetpack comments system, with the “Notify me of new comments via email.”
Treznor 9000, out.
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And guess what? This showed up in my notification area. And I’m responding to it in said area.
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Now, that would have been a good catch!! 🤠
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Oops, I just realized this was under MY post. Silly me….
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I definitely got an email from your site:
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sigh. stupid akisment. It’s not supposed to kick in unless TWO links are included. They just can’t do anything right!
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so now we just have to wait to see if YOU get an email from your site.
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Well, I got a confirm follow email, but WordPress doesn’t handle multi-login well at all and it throws an error message when I try to confirm with THE BUTTON. I’m a master button pusher. It’s what I DO. 😄🥳
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Alright. I confirmed follow, so can you go reply to my latest comment on Treznor? 🤔
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Nevermind, I realized I could do it. I sent you an email to keep from clogging up the system over here. 😁
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Herbert’s masterpiece. I re-read it this year and also listened to a really good audiobook version. As you say, it can stand alone as a one-and-done story, which I think helps cement its genius. I read Dune Messiah this year and enjoyed it, although I found it very different to the original. I haven’t read Children yet. It’s on my list for next year. Gorgeous cover!
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If you still enjoyed Messiah, you’ll handle the rest of the Chronicles just fine. They’re much more in tune with Messiah than with Dune.
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That is a beautiful cover! The husband bought me 6 books in the series for Christmas. I’m super pumped. I think I might try to fit in book 2 before the end of the year. 🙂
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I hope you enjoy your time with the Chronicles. Just be aware that Messiah is very different in tone from Dune.
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I’m 110 pages in. So far, I’m enjoying it very much. There was an introduction by his son that said a lot of people have a problem with the shift in this book, but so far, that’s not me.
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Good.
Do be aware that his son, who I have dubbed Baby Herbert, is a failed writer and has lived his whole life in his father’s shadow. I don’t think he’s bitter, but I simply don’t trust anything he writes about his father.
If you like Messiah, then the rest of the Chronicles will present no problems either 😀
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Good to know! (On both accounts.) I think I’ve already decided to not pick up anything that the son and the other writer have done outside the main story. There are too many other series for me to waste my time on their imagined additions to the story.
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To read the Dune 7 duology by Herbert&Anderson (where they finish the Dune Chronicles), and for it to make sense, you will need to have read the Legends of Dune trilogy. That consists of The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade & The Battle of Corrin.
I don’t “think” anything else is really necessary. But Dune7 will make absolutely no sense without that foundation. Sadly 😦
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Can I stop at book 6 or no?
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Book 6 ends at a cliffhanger of cliffhangers.
We lived with it for decades and thought it would never be resolved. So once you get there, you can decide.
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Ooooof. Okay, I’ll have to remember your advice then. 🙂
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Book 4, God Emperor is a good place to stop. Not quite as good as book 1, but Herbert meant to write a trilogy, a standalone and then another trilogy. So he got 6/7th’s of that done 😀
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lol. good to know.
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Looks awesome! What a great Christmas gift!
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The funny thing? Even though I had put this on my list, I hadn’t remembered so when I felt the present and realized it was a book, I was completely stumped 😀
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Cool! It’s that blue rimmed edition, right? Any chance for a picture of that jacket poster? I don’t get the mechanics of that.
I’m so glad I bought a deluxe too, the Folio edition, there’s something to reading a book extremely well set, splendidly bound, on high quality paper…
Coincidentally I rereading God Emperor right now, better than Messiah and Children so far, but I’m only 1/3rd in.
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It is bluey/greeney rimmed. I’ll take a pix today and see about getting it to you. Basically, the inside of the dust jacket is just one big picture.
The Folio edition is next but I have so many things I want as well. A Ruger carbine being one of them, and that sucker is pricy!!!!!
I’ll be looking forward to your review of God Emperor 😀
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No need for the picture, the mechanics are clear now, thanks. So you could take of the jacket and use that as a poster and read the naked book.
I have zero knowledge of guns, but I’m interested why you want that brand specifically? What’s the decision chart on that?
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You are correct about the jacket. That is how it “could” work. Since this isn’t a reading copy for me, the jacket is actually more important 😀
I’ll try to keep this short about the gun.
I have a 9mm pistol. I want something closer to a rifle for home defense but want a gun that uses the same 9mm ammo. There are no 9mm rifles, only carbines (which are short barreled rifles). So that is that decision tree.
I had a .22 ruger rifle growing up to deal with squirrels and blackbirds around the house, so I am familiar with the ruger brand. I’ve looked at other 9mm carbines, which are about half the price and from what my sister tells me (she is a cop on a SWAT team) you get what you pay for. I want a gun I can shoot, clean and forget about. Which is what the ruger will do. So there is that decision chain 🙂
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Thanks for clearing that up! Are blackbirds considered a pest where you live? We only have the common blackbird here (Turdus merula), in abundance, but nobody would ever consider shooting one.
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Not sure of the exact name of the species, but they’re carrion birds and are nothing but flying vermin. They also eat crops and are a general nuisance, just like the squirrels.
I guess if you think of them as flying rats? That’s how we viewed and treated them.
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Ah ok, definitely different species then.
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They’re the smaller cousin of the crow, if that helps.
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jackdaws?
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no idea, but it sounds good.
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The European variant is the bird in my avatar, not really pests here, although some crop farmers might object.
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I just looked it up and the “names” for them are grackles and/or starlings.
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We don’t have grackles in Europe. We do have starlings, but they’re not really pests either, so probably a different species too.
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It might also be that our definitions of what constitutes a pest are different enough too 🙂
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Ha, probably, but I don’t think our starlings are carrion birds
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A map of Dune? I don’t remember ever seeing one, and that’s oh-so-very intriguing! Lucky you! 😉
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I’m not a map person, so I’m not sure if previous editions have had them or not.
I’m pretty sure Messiah or Children at least had a map of the city of Arrakis, but it looked like something drawn by a 10 year old 😀
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Since the LOTR I have grown quite fond of maps, but my edition of the Dune books doesn’t carry any: now that you piqued my curiosity, I will have to see if there’s any online… 🙂
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I remember when they announced this edition and I saw someone in the metro with it. I was surprised, in a good way, by the blue stained pages. Excellent gift/haul! 😀
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The staining really stands out and looks great. I wouldn’t mind seeing more books with the same thing…
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Very nice edition, congrats! This is certainly one of the best editions of Dune 🙂
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Thanks. The Folio Society edition is next. But that is years away. It is really hard to justify that much money for a “collectible book”….
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haha that is a great cover!
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It is so beautiful looking. I just need to figure out a way to have it face out on my bookshelf without having the spine get twisted.
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