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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 3, 2020 19:04:32 GMT
I read it a few years ago and liked it. Very similar to the movie.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 4, 2020 17:44:01 GMT
Slowly re-reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. I've got the same opinion of it that I did my first time around: The book is slooooooow and then it suddenly gets really good once the Miss Bertrams leave the picture, setting up an excellent class based drama as Fanny struggles with her identity. Of course, then I recall it falling apart at the very end, but I'm not there yet. As far as I remember this one gets better the longer it takes. Austen does here something again she does so well: You get to learn the characters and get already hints what they are like and then you can watch the main character to develop this experience as well.
It's not as great as Pride and Prejudice or Emma, but a great novel nonetheless.
I myself am re-reading Tad Williams' The Witchwood Crown, so I can then go on to the new sequel: Empire of Grass.
Tried "God's Gym" by Leon de Winter, which was pretty cheap and heavy-handed in style. Also reading Marcel Proust's Sodom and Gomorrha for a while already.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 4, 2020 18:41:09 GMT
Slowly re-reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. I've got the same opinion of it that I did my first time around: The book is slooooooow and then it suddenly gets really good once the Miss Bertrams leave the picture, setting up an excellent class based drama as Fanny struggles with her identity. Of course, then I recall it falling apart at the very end, but I'm not there yet. As far as I remember this one gets better the longer it takes. Austen does here something again she does so well: You get to learn the characters and get already hints what they are like and then you can watch the main character to develop this experience as well.
It's not as great as Pride and Prejudice or Emma, but a great novel nonetheless. Austen ultimately brought this to a destination that I didn't want it to go: Fanny and Edmund getting married, while the Crawfords are pretty much punished for their wickedness. I didn't feel that the Crawfords deserved that. Fanny was always judging them and the end result is that she's a good judge of character and gets her happy ending, but doesn't learn anything (well, sort of, I'll get there in a sec). The Crawfords are bad people, yes, but I would have preferred that Austen gave them room to grow and change, like Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
I LOVE how P&P built up to Darcy's rash marriage proposal, which then makes both of the characters reconsider their viewpoints and try to become better people. They wouldn't have been a happy couple if they didn't go on journeys of personal discovery, and that's what makes their ultimate happy ending so powerful: they had to work for it, after realizing how horrible each of them were.
In contrast, Fanny is self-righteous, indolent, judging, and mean-spirited. She never confronts Mr. Crawford about his past flirtations, but stands in judgment of him anyway. While Mary does everything in her power to become Fanny's friend, she is firmly rebuffed at every opportunity. Fanny doesn't *want* a friend like Miss Crawford, because Miss Crawford has the gall to attract Edmund. Although it may be a poor match and they may end up unhappily, Mary is *trying* to be a good person. Fanny practically spits on her inside of her mind (Fanny is far too well behaved to actually do anything that isn't perfect, but her heart is rotten).
This could be fascinating, and towards the end (I'm just getting to this point in my reading), she visits Portsmouth to see her parents and siblings... and IIRC, she shows signs of growth. She comes to love her five year old sister, she begins to understand just how privileged her life at Mansfield Park really is. She learns that her dislike of certain elements at Mansfield Park are nothing compared to what she would have gone through at Portsmouth, which is cool character development: she begins to appreciate what she has! She has the chance to re-evaluate her stubbornness, as well! Maybe Fanny will change! But the narrative conveniently sides with Fanny, while Crawford is never confronted or given room to grow... or not grow, for that matter: I'd have been happy with him being confronted by the error of his ways and sticking to his course anyway! But as they are, Mary and Henry are treated cruelly by Austen when I always felt that although they had faults, they were not inherently more wicked than... well, than Fanny.
That's my gripe with the novel, as I recall it. I'll see how I respond to it this time, but so far the book has played out pretty much exactly as I remember it. This time around I'm less inclined to think that Austen is siding with Fanny, simply because Fanny is shown to be such a narcissistic drama queen throughout the book. Aside from that, there has been very little of Austen's trademark humor, and the drama has been... dull. As I said, this picks up considerably after the Miss Bertrams are out of the picture, and I'm now entering what was my favorite part of the story in Portsmouth. But Austen does take her time getting to the good stuff.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 4, 2020 18:52:08 GMT
Oh I totally agree that Fanny isn't a likeable character (neither is Emma Woodhouse by the way) and one of my main issues was that she really didn't learn much about herself until the very end. I don't know how many times I thought: Come on please. You just left your family in their miserable life and never think back about them?? But as far as I remember (I'm just wondering that not THAT much stayed with me despite it's merely two years ago I read this book ) she did so about her environment and the other people, finally getting to look behind the frontages of all that things that look pretty, but ultimately are not. Though some parts of her are her and the novel overall are still irritating. That's a favourite topic of Austen. I think Emma and Mansfield Park are more than about the main character actually a picture of their surroundings viewed through the eyes of the protagonists, whereas this also plays part in Pride of Prejudice as well, but the later is more about the characters itsself. But yeah, the build-up and also the scenes itsself and the dialogues are not as great as in the two other books as far as I remember. I'd rank Mansfield Park as 4th of the 5 Austen novels I've read.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 4, 2020 19:13:20 GMT
Emma is unlikable, but I think that's the whole point: she never learns her lesson and she lives a pretty great life anyway, thank you very much. It is much *funnier* than MP, which takes on a pretty dour tone throughout, which makes it much harder to care about Fanny I am an Austen fanatic, having read the following books (ranked, because why not): 1. Sanditon (unfinished due to her death, but boy was it shaping up to be amazing) 2. Pride and Prejudice 3. Persuasion 4. Emma 5. Love & Friendship (not to be confused with the movie of the same name: that's based on Lady Susan - this one was written as a young teenager in her Mel Brooks phase) 6. The Watsons (unfinished, presumably abandoned after her father's death; she wrote MP instead) 7. Northanger Abbey 8. Sense and Sensibility 9. Lady Susan 10. Mansfield Park 11. The History of England (a very short comedic story that was clearly meant to be read aloud to an audience of her family; she was probably about twelve when this was written, so don't expect much from it) 12. Lesley Castle (an unfinished work from her juvenile period that I can't even remember)
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 4, 2020 19:22:25 GMT
Emma is unlikable, but I think that's the whole point: she never learns her lesson and she lives a pretty great life anyway, thank you very much. It is much *funnier* than MP, which takes on a pretty dour tone throughout, which makes it much harder to care about Fanny I am an Austen fanatic, having read the following books (ranked, because why not): 1. Sanditon (unfinished due to her death, but boy was it shaping up to be amazing) 2. Pride and Prejudice 3. Persuasion 4. Emma 5. Love & Friendship (not to be confused with the movie of the same name: that's based on Lady Susan - this one was written as a young teenager in her Mel Brooks phase) 6. The Watsons (unfinished, presumably abandoned after her father's death; she wrote MP instead) 7. Northanger Abbey 8. Sense and Sensibility 9. Lady Susan 10. Mansfield Park 11. The History of England (a very short comedic story that was clearly meant to be read aloud to an audience of her family; she was probably about twelve when this was written, so don't expect much from it) 12. Lesley Castle (an unfinished work from her juvenile period that I can't even remember) For me: 1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Emma 3. Sense and Sensibility 4. Mansfield Park 5. Northanger Abbey
I have Persuasion on my book shelf at home already (which has already increased to about 30 unread novels ), and will read it with the next month I guess.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 4, 2020 19:30:40 GMT
I actually didn't even know Austen wrote so much. Usually I read about her 6 novels, plus a few unfinished ones (Watsons, Sandition).
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 4, 2020 19:40:56 GMT
I actually didn't even know Austen wrote so much. Usually I read about her 6 novels, plus a few unfinished ones (Watsons, Sandition). Well, Love & Friendship and the bottom two were all stuff she did as a kid. They'd be forgotten if she wasn't famous. They're more curiosities (and not at all good), each of them pretty short. L&F is special because it is VERY, very funny. I can't help but laugh at someone disappearing from the story for several chapters only to suddenly reappear in a terrible carriage collision and promising to tell the whole story of how he got here... and then dying on the spot because, y'know, he was hit by a carriage. It also has a hilarious segment in which the protagonist talks about the health risks of fainting, and encouraging the reader that if you *must* lose your senses, running mad and screaming is a much healthier alternative. Lady Susan was unpublished in her lifetime because... it just wasn't very good, I think? IIRC, it was found among her belongings and published (it was probably written before Northanger Abbey, considering that it is in epistolary format like her other early works), but it took Whit Stillman to fix its inherent flaws (such as an ending that is clearly in place because she couldn't be bothered to rewrite herself out of a corner in which nothing could happen).
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Post by chris3 on Jul 6, 2020 23:45:43 GMT
Finished Dune and Dune Messiah, and I'm about 200 pages into Children of Dune. Impressions so far: Dune: This was one of the most exciting experiences I've had reading a book in a long time, probably since my first read of the Song of Ice and Fire series. I was hooked from the very first chapter. I love how (unlike the Lynch film) Herbert just throws the reader right into the mix, trusting us to slowly piece together the context of this fictional universe and using the introduction of Paul's quest as the perfectly relatable anchor to guide us through such an alien and dense world. There's no long prologue explaining the complex histories of future politics. We begin with the personal, and that's where all of the best elements of the novel remain. Paul's test with the Bene Gesserit priestess in the opening pages immediately put me in his shoes, and I was excited to learn more. I was not disappointed. While the overall narrative is a rather traditional hero's journey ("Hamlet in space" and the foundation of most successful YA novels to come), the world itself is so vividly realized and yet so concisely, elegantly laid out to the reader that it never feels like the story gets bogged down in world-building descriptions (which George RR Martin somewhat succumbs to in the later ASOIAF books). The journey is also packed to the gills with incident. There's enough plot here for multiple fantasy books, and yet none of it feels superfluous and overall the storyline is quite simplistic. What's not simplistic, however, are its themes, which to me feel FAR more relevant to current times than the often-compared Lord of the Rings saga. I love the idea of a culture of humans whose plan for Arrakis involves slowly, over many generations, bringing life, balance and healthy habitation back to the planet. Now I see why Denis Villeneuve considers the story a call to action for the youth. I'm also very, very happy that Timothee Chalamet describes Paul's arc as "an anti-hero's journey," because while most of that material factors into the novel's sequel, there are definite hints here that Paul's path to Godhood is fraught with disturbing implications. While the entire book was a pleasure, personally the middle section beginning with the fall of House Atreides leading through the desert pursuit is some of the most incredible fantasy storytelling I've ever experienced. The imagery Herbert conjures up is absolutely awe-inspiring, and he carries the reader through a chase that is at times relentlessly intense and at others just beautifully meditative and ethereal in tone. It feels truly mystical and mythic. I'll forever have surreal images of an endless desert landscape beneath a purple-hued night sky seared into my brain. This is as good as sci-fi/fantasy gets. 10
Dune Messiah: I feel like this book is the ORIGINAL expectation-subverting sequel a la The Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi, and A Feast for Crows, only ten times more hardcore. Imagine if Luke Skywalker inadvertently caused a religious jihad carried out in his name, leading to the slaughter of over sixty billion people over dozens of planets. Imagine Harry Potter comparing himself to Hitler. Dune Messiah is a MASSIVE reversal of the adventure and grandeur of its predecessor. At less than half its length, Herbert's sequel all but abandons action and spectacle in favor of a brooding chamber piece that alternates between backroom political scheming and endless philosophical ruminations as Paul reaches deep into his mind (navigating through eons of time) to find no possible outcomes to his reign outside of various pathways to ruination. This is an unbelievably brave and disarming novel, almost completely devoid of the charms of the previous. It's here that we come to understand the fuller arc Herbert has in mind for the original run, it seems. Paul was not meant to be the hero, but a cautionary tale. This book is fascinating, intellectually-stimulating, and immensely worthy of respect for the pure confidence Herbert deploys in almost trolling Dune fans in order to tell a more nuanced overarching story. But I will concede to the many detractors that yes, Dune Messiah can be quite a bit of a slog at times. The political conspiracy is compelling but ultimately results in a 300 page waiting game for the move to be made, and while Paul's arc necessitates that he become more alien and cold to the reader, I could've done without quite so much introspective brooding over the impossibility of averting disaster. It becomes tedious in stretches, and you start to watch the pages go by and think: "when is something going to happen?" Luckily there's a wonderful minor set-piece in the middle and an absolutely FANTASTIC ending. It's every bit the antithesis of Dune's heroic and bombastic finale. I LOVED where's Paul's story leaves off and the poem that ends the novel is downright Shakespearean. Overall the second book is challenging but extremely rewarding, while also being the type of story that is more fun to dissect after-the-fact than during the initial read. It's a bit tiresome and I wish it had just one more action set-piece to really boost it up as a worthy follow-up, but I also like the more intimate, claustrophobic style too. 7.5
Children of Dune (so far): I'm only about a third of the way through but holy shit George Lucas ripped off SO MUCH from this overall narrative. It's ridiculous! Hiding on a desert twin boy and girl mind-power children of a fallen hero and mother who died in childbirth? It's pretty ridiculous. Also in just about 200 pages this book already contains way more storytelling progression than the entirety of the second one. It feels very much like a Return of the Jedi style return to the comparatively lighter tone of the original. I like it a lot, though I also admit I'm not binge-reading it as fast as the other two. I'm not quite sure if I believe the Preacher is Paul. I'm excited to find out. I'm pretty sure I'll continue on with the series once I'm done. 8 (so far)
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 14, 2020 2:36:17 GMT
Finally finished Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which was an overwhelming read (mostly in a good way). Certainly some sections worked better for me than others, but on the whole it's an impeccable achievement, one that's as funny and biting as it is insightful and moving. It truly comes together in a harmonious, beautiful way in the last hundred pages, and whatever frustration there is along the way makes for a genuinely rewarding experience. Even if these aren't the most lovable characters, with all the time you spend with them it's hard not to become incredibly invested in them and even identify with them in ways you might not want to. Such incredibly realized characters that makes for a poignant journey. The last line makes for one of the most powerful endings I've ever read.
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Post by chris3 on Jul 14, 2020 5:00:43 GMT
Finally finished Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which was an overwhelming read (mostly in a good way). Certainly some sections worked better for me than others, but on the whole it's an impeccable achievement, one that's as funny and biting as it is insightful and moving. It truly comes together in a harmonious, beautiful way in the last hundred pages, and whatever frustration there is along the way makes for a genuinely rewarding experience. Even if these aren't the most lovable characters, with all the time you spend with them it's hard not to become incredibly invested in them and even identify with them in ways you might not want to. Such incredibly realized characters that makes for a poignant journey. The last line makes for one of the most powerful endings I've ever read. Glad you enjoyed it! It's long been my go-to answer for favorite all-time novel. I absolutely love the utterly dysfunctional kids (Chip, Gary, and Denise), especially Chip who I can unfortunately relate to quite a bit. It's such a hilarious and quietly devastating work. If you haven't read Freedom, his follow-up, I also really enjoyed that, though not nearly as much. The one he wrote after that, Purity, I thought was pretty awful.
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Post by chris3 on Jul 14, 2020 5:14:38 GMT
Finished Children of Dune. That was fantastic! At times it feels a bit like a retread of the plot of the original, but it's actually quite welcome because the plot is extremely captivating and quite ambitious in comparison to the second novel, allowing room for a little bit of everything you could want in sci-fi/fantasy. Conspiracies and intrigue, action set-pieces, shocking deaths, expansions on the religion and mysticism, further philosophical ruminations on the role of leadership and government in society (I enjoyed it more here than in Dune Messiah, however), and all within a cracking fantasy adventure with tons of incident and excitement. Honestly I enjoyed this book as much as the original. It felt like an actual GOOD version of Return of the Jedi or The Dark Knight Rises: a third chapter that brings events full circle by subtly rehashing the beats of the original work while deepening the themes and characters. My favorite arc probably belongs to Alia, who is an obvious and major influence on Cersei Lannister (my favorite character in George's books), but I also loved what this book does with Duncan Idaho. It was an all around page-turner, thrilling from start to finish and every bit as engaging as the original classic. Cannot wait for book 4, and am already regretting ordering it online because it won't be here for another week. 9
Ratings so far: Dune 10 Dune Messiah 7.5 Children of Dune 9
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 14, 2020 5:15:13 GMT
Harlan Ellison, The Death Bird.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 16, 2020 14:52:35 GMT
Finally finished Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which was an overwhelming read (mostly in a good way). Certainly some sections worked better for me than others, but on the whole it's an impeccable achievement, one that's as funny and biting as it is insightful and moving. It truly comes together in a harmonious, beautiful way in the last hundred pages, and whatever frustration there is along the way makes for a genuinely rewarding experience. Even if these aren't the most lovable characters, with all the time you spend with them it's hard not to become incredibly invested in them and even identify with them in ways you might not want to. Such incredibly realized characters that makes for a poignant journey. The last line makes for one of the most powerful endings I've ever read. This is a great, great novel indeed. One of the best of the last decades. His follow-up Freedom is even better and more complex.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 16, 2020 14:57:08 GMT
Yasar Kemal - Ince Memed III
Not as good as the first two parts, but still good.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 17, 2020 9:38:24 GMT
started Catch-22 for a second time and stopped... for a second time. I'll finish it at some point but on a whim I felt more like Austen atm. Except for skimming Pride & Prejudice in highschool I haven't read a single of her books, which needs to be rectified immediately. Listening to P&P now, narrated by Kate Kellgren. Loving it. Catch-22 isn't going anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 10:02:00 GMT
started Catch-22 for a second time and stopped... for a second time.. You’re not missing out on much
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 17, 2020 18:49:25 GMT
started Catch-22 for a second time and stopped... for a second time.. You’re not missing out on much My brother has been trying to get me to read it for ages. I think it's really funny and I liked the Nichols movie (and I liked Slaughterhouse-Five a lot) but I just don't feel like cynical postmodern satire right now...
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 19, 2020 20:58:53 GMT
Not reading it yet but this week the Oliver Stone memoir comes out: Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game, Al asked Marty to keep me on the set to help him, presumably with a director he wasn’t quite sure of. At first I was glad to stay on, although I was being paid only in per diem to cover my expenses, but I regarded it as a learning experience. Al was still, at this time, quicksilver of nature, turning on a dime, very sensitive to his environment, eyes, ears, skin on fire.
If he saw a new face on the set, he’d react. He was just that way. At all costs I’d avoid his line of sight when he was in acting motion lest my concentration disrupt his own — somewhat like particle waves. Billy Wilder described this sensitivity in recounting how Greta Garbo banned him from Ninotchka for appearing in her sightline. It wouldn’t be easy to direct Al, but De Palma seemed indifferent to that; he was never really an actor’s director like Lumet, whom Pacino had wanted. De Palma, it seemed to me, was more interested in the “big picture,” and in that vision actors were more or less an important part of the scenery.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 23, 2020 18:14:22 GMT
Pride & Prejudice is lovely. I'm almost done. Lydia just eloped with Wickham.
I will say it helps to have a hot actor round out Darcy's edges because he really does come off as an ass in the first half of the book, moreso than in the BBC and Wright adaptations. Also have conflicted thoughts about Lydia, whose devil-may-care transgressiveness in this setting would make her a feminist heroine in a different story. There's a passage in the book where she describes dressing up a shoulder in drag at a party and I was legit shocked and amazed... THAT wasn't in either of the adaptations. Her frivolity is derided by the sensible Lizzie, as it would, and its consequences are aptly explored, but condemning it outright as Austen does is slightly disappointing. Honestly her character is a blast, both in the book and in the BBC version (Julia Sawalha ftw!).
Additionally, the book's depiction of Georgiana Darcy as shy to the point of being awkward and stiff is hard to reckon with the warmness Emilia Fox brings to the role. Georgiana's shyness in the series is gentle and endearing and inspires protectiveness. She's quiet but sweet, and the book doesn't convey that sweetness to the same extent as the quietness.
If anything, listening to the book with Kate Kellgren's gorgeous narration makes me want to watch the series again. It's been ages!
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 24, 2020 8:38:49 GMT
Pride & Prejudice is lovely. I'm almost done. Lydia just eloped with Wickham. I will say it helps to have a hot actor round out Darcy's edges because he really does come off as an ass in the first half of the book, moreso than in the BBC and Wright adaptations. Also have conflicted thoughts about Lydia, whose devil-may-care transgressiveness in this setting would make her a feminist heroine in a different story. There's a passage in the book where she describes dressing up a shoulder in drag at a party and I was legit shocked and amazed... THAT wasn't in either of the adaptations. Her frivolity is derided by the sensible Lizzie, as it would, and its consequences are aptly explored, but condemning it outright as Austen does is slightly disappointing. Honestly her character is a blast, both in the book and in the BBC version (Julia Sawalha ftw!). Additionally, the book's depiction of Georgiana Darcy as shy to the point of being awkward and stiff is hard to reckon with the warmness Emilia Fox brings to the role. Georgiana's shyness in the series is gentle and endearing and inspires protectiveness. She's quiet but sweet, and the book doesn't convey that sweetness to the same extent as the quietness. If anything, listening to the book with Kate Kellgren's gorgeous narration makes me want to watch the series again. It's been ages! I quite like Darcy's character. He has his flaws, for example being highly arrogant, but ultimately he is a gentleman. Not as great as George Knightley though.
While I totally despise Lydia. She's the epitome of a careless, selfish girl that doesn't care about anything than her own enjoyment. This is one kind of human I absolutely can't stand.
I'm reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air right now. For somebody who has always been fascinated by mountains it's highly interesting.
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Post by chris3 on Jul 25, 2020 0:30:33 GMT
Just finished God Emperor of Dune. Easily my favorite of the Dune series (thus far) and one of the strangest, most fascinating, intellectually-stimulating, and oddly romantic novels I've ever read. Weirdest masterpiece ever. Never thought I'd lament the lost humanity of a sandworm god, or root for his love life to work out.
This book has infamously divided the readership throughout the decades, and I can understand why. To fans this is either the jump-the-shark moment or the unsung masterwork of the saga. I absolutely fall in the latter camp. After completing his historically successful Dune trilogy, Frank Herbert returned to the series years later with a decidedly unshackled mindset. He knew this book would be a hit, and he knew the publishers and the fans were clamoring for more Arrakis. But he also was now a household name in the literary world living a comfortable life as a respected novelist. He didn't need to return to Dune, so if he was going to journey back it would be on his terms, indulging in his own unique creative impulses rather than retreading familiar territory or giving readers what they think they want. What he accomplished is by far the most personal, artistically pure novel in the series.
Leto II Atreides, half-human/half-sandworm and tyrannical ruler of the known universe for over three thousand years, is one of the most incredible characters I've ever come across in fiction. I was at once repulsed, terrified, curious, mystified, endeared, and terribly empathetic to the God Emperor. His rule is at once shockingly despotic and yet so brilliant it's difficult to argue against. His endless philosophical musings are fascinating and strange. His narcissistic grandiosity and deep-seated loneliness are both alienating and scarily relatable. He's the oldest, wisest, smartest, most powerful being in existence and a virgin eunuch monstrosity barely clinging to even the basest remnants of his ever-fading humanity. The sexual frustration oozes from the pages of this infinitely odd book. Leto II seems to be an avatar for Herbert the man in ways both self-aggrandizing and self-immolating, hitting very close to home for anyone who considers themselves a writer. If there ever was a dream adaptation I could choose to put to screen, it would be of this novel. If Dune is sci/fi-fantasy at its most definitive and operatic, God Emperor of Dune exemplifies the boundless pathways a creative mind can stretch the genre. I've never read or seen anything like it. Leto + Hwi forever. 10
Rankings thus far:
Dune 10 Dune Messiah 7.5 Children of Dune 9 God Emperor of Dune 10
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 25, 2020 13:32:26 GMT
Philip K. Dick, Time Out Of Joint
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 28, 2020 23:22:21 GMT
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury: Sci-fi lit is always very hit-or-miss with me, but unlike some other major figures of the genre, Bradbury sure as hell knew how to take his pioneering ideas and articulate them in clear, engaging prose. This was a great read, one haunting vignette after another that amounts to an eerie, strangely hopeful whole.
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Post by cheesecake on Jul 29, 2020 21:16:17 GMT
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