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I'm almost ashamed to say I've started Dune, but failed twice already. It's not the book, of course, it's just that I know the story too well from watching the Lynch-movie (once) and mini-series over and over. In fact, one of my favourite mini-series / really long movies of all time is Children of Dune. It's perfect in so many ways. The effects are specatular, yet you don't really notice them. They are just.... normal, you know? The guy standing in the middle of a sandstorm with his arms out, yelling that his skin is not his own before he is completely buried? I cared a lot more about his tragic fate than the spectacular CG sand that buried him. Like the tigers. They are just CG, yes, and the worst CG in the entire series, but they... I don't know, are supposed to look like that, in a way.
But for this reason, I have yet to finish the actual novel. I know the story inside out and want to get God Emperor of Dune (even more now that I'm typing this), but I can skip the first three books. The series are too perfect and trancend the books. They don't make the books worse, only... obsolete, you know?
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