Christian B. said,
> Hi everyone,
>
> being a Dune fan who read Frank Herberts masterpiece(s) many years ago,
> I stumbled across "House Atreides" some time ago in my favourite book
> shop, and I thought: let's give it a try.
>
> I was disappointed.
>
> While I liked seeing Dune characters coming back to live, it became
> apparently clear to me that Herbert jr. and Anderson do not posses
> enough craftsman****p to recreate the complexity and "style" of the
> original series.
>
> Nevertheless, my love to Dune was stronger and I thought it can only
> become better, thus ordered the remaining two books.
>
> I just finished reading "House Harkonnen" and I am shocked. While it
> IMHO improved to "House Atreides" with respect to the development of its
> characters, etc., it is still far distant from the original series.
> This became very obvious to me while reading the social gathering
> scene in HH - the dinner organized by Fenring in his palace on Arrakeen
> that ends with a dead visitor. Obviously this was an attempt to recreate
> the dinner scene in the first part of "Dune" that I love so much.
> The original scene is in my opinion a typical Herbert masterpiece that
> contains characters that oppose each other and show hostile interactions
> on a sophisticated verbal and non-verbal level.
> And what about the dinner scene in HH? Gossip. And representative of
> House A getting killed by a representative of house Bin the end. How
> cheap...
>
> What struck me most was the cruelty and sadness in the book: Hallecks
> sister getting abused and raped two times (first time in the brothel and
> second time her execution), the rebel ally and lover of C'tair of Ix
> finally ending up as a brood chamber for the Tleilaxu, the description
> of Rhombur Vernius burned body on board the damaged air****p after the
> assassination attempt, ...
>
> While I usually do not have a problem with "explicit lyrics" I do think
> that this is certainly far off from Frank Herberts novels. I can not
> remember anything like this in the original series. I guess as they were
> unable to increase the sophistication of the plot itself they ended up
> with this kind of "special effects" to keep the reader entertained...
> What a shame.
>
>
> Now, I have "House Corrino" lying here and I guess I will read through
> it. Is it even worse compared to the previous two?
>
> What about the legend series with Butler's Djihad, etc.? If I do not
> even like the House XXX series, I will probably also not enjoy these?
>
> And probably I will stay away from the sequels...
>
>
> Thanks for reading. I just had to get rid of the aggression ;-)
>
> Christian
On a happier (and far more satisfying) note, I started re-reading the
original
series again. It ha been mentioned that with every read, new things emerge
and I
can concur with that.
As to the fodder produced by Brian and Kev, I read "House Atreides" and
struggled
through about half of House Harkonnen before throwing them both into the
recycle
bin.
--
Fred
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