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Dune is boring. I don't get the hype, tried reading and watching it. It's no lotr (kbin.social)
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Dune is boring. I don't get the hype, tried reading and watching it. It's no lotr

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[–] Boinkage 2 points 8 months ago

In a lot of ways it is the LotR of sci-fi. It laid the foundation for a lot of things that follow, like Warhammer 40,000, but at the same time is not especially well-written. You have to appreciate it as something halfway between a good book and a piece of the history of fiction.