I admit I'm a bit optimistic in assuming that anyone where has watched it.
I enjoyed the first part (admittedly as a captive audience on a plane), but I did notice how they made the Fremen, who speak Arabic, half-black and half-Arab. Apparently, the Fremen are yuge racists who don't interbreed with the blacks among them, or if they had, all of them would be a mix of the two. But there was a clear dividing line between them, as if there's been segregation for centuries.
Don't be lazy. Just read the books.
I’ve read book one. Got the next 2 books in my mountain of books. My brother said to stay away from the ones his son wrote. You agree with that?
I'd say read the first three, next three are questionable, everything else is done in collaboration with one of the infamously bad authors of his era.
Read them all and decide for yourself.
Ok. Well I hope people get the books
lol don't read them all, the ones wrote by his son and Anderson are pretty bad and there are like 12 of them, that's pretty much 150 hours you're not getting back reading essentially bad fan fictions. if you want just pick vol1 of any of the prequel trilogies and see for yourself how bad it is
I "read" all the ones he wrote on audiobook. Tried to read the first two his son wrote to finish out the post Lato II storyline, but couldn't even get through the intro because the style was so different.
Thanks! I’ve heard that as well
At some point I'll find a way to get through that storyline because it really does feel incomplete in a way the other logical stopping points (after Dune or God Emperor) don't, but with the warnings I'd seen and the strong stylistic change I just couldn't go straight from Chapterhouse to Hunters.
I didn't mind the sons books but definitely a different style and whatnot from the original.
I don't think any of the books beyond the first are actually great, and after the second and third they're not worth reading at all. Honestly you could just read the original and be better off pretending it never had sequels.
I'm planning to, but I won't have the time any time soon. And I have to decide if I should watch the show in the theater, which is what is giving me trouble - because I don't want to back a woke show.
Why watch it at all? Why watch any Hollywood blockbuster in the theater?
A well acted Audiobook is available free on youtube