Paul Atreides: *opens his mouth* My brain:https://youtu.be/609YTBQzQyY
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Not gonna lie, a part of me thinks the book could’ve easily started at this chapterpic.twitter.com/HPcLoARCAe
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Like. There’s a few good bits from the earlier chapters that you could chop back in as flashbacks or in a different order, but were I an editor, “His first encounter with the people he was meant to betray left Dr Kynes shaken” would make for a vastly stronger opening.
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This chapter gives us multiple POV, neatly shows Paul as a child of prophecy in an intriguing way without belabouring it, and introduces major significant details in a natural way, all while progressing the plot. This should’ve been first! We didn’t need to see Caladan!
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OK, that’s it for today, but I’ll come back to this thread when I next pick up reading!
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I'm armed with hard seltzer, so you know what that means: IT'S DUNE TIME, BITCHES!
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Cackling at this accidental self-own about Herbert’s female characterspic.twitter.com/i9TayikRBq
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Duke Leto: gotta convince my concubine I suspect her of treason even though I totally don’t and there’s no good reason she couldn’t be in on the pretence! Also Duke Leto: she’d be prettier if she smiledpic.twitter.com/bI40SaNIrY
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I cannot get over the fact that pretty much everyone in this book has more traditionally SFF name - which is to say, a made up name, or at least an unusual one, as per Idaho and Wellington - except for the two protagonists, who are Paul and Jessica. IT'S SO JARRING.
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Paul: I was handling it correctly. Why do they interfere?" Me brain:pic.twitter.com/V09JODKuiL
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Love how Jessica's inner monologue is suddenly 'oh bee tee dubs I'm pregnant and have known for weeks and also it's a girl," like this isn't something that would've reasonably crossed her mind before this point.
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There's such a cool idea at the heart of this book - I get why so many people love it - but Herbert just cannot resist having his characters *constantly* explaining their motives and reasoning to the reader and to each other, and it's frustrating as hell.
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What it makes me think is that Herbert was, whether consciously or not, dismissive of the intelligence of his readers - that he thought he was being So Very Smort about every little thing that he HAD to explain it, or no one would get it, and therefore not KNOW he was Smort.
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super cool that the villain is all, “I was GONNA rape a 15yo boy but I guess my Plans would be spoiled by that”
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sidebar, to everyone replying to this thread with comments to the effect of "just wait until you get to X book in the series!" - bold of you to assume I'm not gonna mindwipe myself after the first one and leave it at that
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luv 2 read a book where the villain is gross and fat and gay and his gross fat gayness is constantly highlighted as a means to emphasise his villainy
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"His mind was a bin without end, catching everything." listen quick question how FUCKING high was herbert when he wrote this book??
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I will bet actual cash-money that this was a thought Herbert had while high and which he found so profound that he just had to include itpic.twitter.com/CGaYD0MqXA
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sign number 987 that this book was written in the mid sixtiespic.twitter.com/NmXqbkNAQT
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"his left hand felt at the sphincter-seal of the tent's entrance"pic.twitter.com/NnDUJSd0BL
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Paul is going through a list of what's in their survival kit and I just choke-snorted because one of the items is listed as a sandsnork. After a moment's thought I'm guessing this is short for sand-snorkel but at first glance it was just hilarious gibberish.
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Paul has suddenly morphed into an all-seeing, all-knowing Whingetwink of Destiny who's rude to his brilliant mother and it is, dare I say it, EXTREMELY annoying.
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does the fact that Harkonnen wants to bone his own grandson, albeit unknowingly, ever get addressed or nah?pic.twitter.com/McJgkcElqP
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"He remained silent, thinking like the seed he was, thinking with the race consciousness he had first experienced as terrible purpose."pic.twitter.com/MZReF2J0YM
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