Your thoughts on the matter? Personally, I found all the fervor I felt in the first Dune novel to kind of have its wind knocked out of it in Messiah, though there are things that would lend themselves well to cinema.
I just read both for the first time in the last few weeks and I totally agree. Nothing interesting happens at any part of Messiah. I’m reading through Children of Dune now and I’m hoping it goes somewhere worthwhile.
It’s been a while since I’ve read the series, but I don’t recall feeling the same excitement with the successive novels as I did with the first. I did read all 6 of them, but honestly by the time I started God Emperor I felt as though the storyline was getting a little too off base.
Regarding the Dune movie, it’s what got me into the books, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As with 90% of adaptations, there is no way for a film to capture the nuances of the source, doubly so for a book such as Dune
Just read an ArsTechnica article about David Lynch’s unfinished Dune Messiah’s script. It was a long, but interesting read
Your thoughts on the matter? Personally, I found all the fervor I felt in the first Dune novel to kind of have its wind knocked out of it in Messiah, though there are things that would lend themselves well to cinema.
I just read both for the first time in the last few weeks and I totally agree. Nothing interesting happens at any part of Messiah. I’m reading through Children of Dune now and I’m hoping it goes somewhere worthwhile.
I think you’ll enjoy Children of Dune much more than Messiah
It’s been a while since I’ve read the series, but I don’t recall feeling the same excitement with the successive novels as I did with the first. I did read all 6 of them, but honestly by the time I started God Emperor I felt as though the storyline was getting a little too off base.
Regarding the Dune movie, it’s what got me into the books, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As with 90% of adaptations, there is no way for a film to capture the nuances of the source, doubly so for a book such as Dune