You have besmirched The Left Hand of Darkness?!
Pistols at dawn sir. Pistols. At dawn.
I agree on Red Mars though…
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Heretics of Dune lost me at the point when the teenage Duncan Idaho clone turns out to be so good at sex that he out-sexes the seductress sent to enslave humanity by a secret coven of sex witches from outer space. Also, there’s a military hero who discovers he can turn into the Flash for some reason?
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I hear thumpers echoing tonight
Grinding passage whispers of sandworm transportation
Shaihulud coming in on the right
The moonlit dunes reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped Irulan along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
She turned to me as if to say, “A beginning is a very delicate time.” 
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I guess I am kind of unique in that my experience with Dune was to first read Dune Messiah which my parents had a copy of, and then circling back to read Dune after reading Children of Dune. So to me, Dune is the prequel.
I did that with Frank Herbert’s other series as well: I read Destination: Void many, many years after reading The Jesus Incident and The Lazarus Effect.
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Reminds me of this:
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Having weird gif issues. Just imagine that one scene where Austin Powers defeats the fembots.
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Thanks for this and I am stealing it and thank god I was not in the act of drinking something when I read it because it would be all over my keyboard now.
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Word. Fuckin’ dwarf poetry, man. To this day, my eyes glaze over when presented with poetry. And it’s all Tolkien’s fault.
I didn’t mind those bits though really they don’t add much to the story immediately at hand. Skipping until there’s dialogue is a good method for reading Tolkien 
Now there’s a role Patrick Stewart was born to play.
Edit: Shit, I had Duncan Idaho confused with Gurney Halleck. Leaving the comment anyway.
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The Lynch movie is so great for about the first half. So many memorable scenes, so many great quotes. It’s a shame the whole thing falls apart after the betrayal and we get endless sand walking, Jesus complex, and rain.
Poetry is an oral medium. Try reading the page out loud and setting it to music.
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The songs in the old animated movies are a treasure, i was really disappointed the live action movies skipped the songs. I mean i get why but i really wanted them in there.
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They did include the “Blunt the knives” song in The Hobbit but it felt tonally out of place in an otherwise dark-and-serious adaptation. Kind of like if Christian Bale started doing Adam West’s “Batusi” dance in the middle of The Dark Knight.
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But what a beautiful desert!
Yes, it’s one of those movies that somewhat annoy me - not bad as such, but just a fraction of what it could have been. They had everything they needed for a great movie and still botched it up.
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Hm. This might be why I like the “prequel” books about the families etc. I understand that those were written by “novelizing” the many notebooks Herbert kept. I really like the worldbuilding scope he had.
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You do you. So much good stuff out there to read.
Personally I think everyone should read Lem and the Strugatsky brothers but then not everyone likes their mind to be fucked with by the story they are reading.
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I like Lem (and nobody ever mentions him) but then I started SF with Heinlein and Dick before I got to high school. My mind was being happily fucked with by the environment and the drugs as well as the fiction of the age - it was the 70s, after all - and I’ve loved that stuff ever since.
I’ll have to look up the Strugatsky brothers then.
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