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I'm a little over halfway through Children of Memory and loving it, listening on Audiobookshelf (๐Ÿฅฐ)

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[โ€“] haelusnovak 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

After seeing the new and the campy old Dune movies, I've been listening to the first book. About 1/3 through. I love the writing, but I find myself exhausted with the trope of "creepy bad fat man loves to abuse young boys". I imagine that this book influenced the same character archetype in the first Eve Online novel. But, as a gay man, it feels very frustrating like gay pedophilia is somehow being characterized as /the worst pedophilia/ when ALL of it is abhorrent. The gay themes just added to increase the "ick" factor for the common straight reader even more? To really seal in the evilness? Idk, it's annoying, especially when there's so much anti-lgbt hate being spread with accusations of pedophilia and grooming, but it seems non-lgbt individuals are making these art... Rant about harmful tropes aside, I am surprised by how well both movies stuck to the main events, although the book is much more likeable than either. The audio file is... Around online.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never been able to talk myself into tackling the Dune books. They've been around so long that they feel a bit like paleo-sci-fi.

[โ€“] koka_noodles 2 points 1 year ago

Here is a paleo-sci-fi I strongly recommend Free on librevox https://librivox.app/book/9317

From 1909

"Plot summary. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine."

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