#dune 1965

[rainsofcamelot]

the fact that this scene is not in any of the adaptations is the actual jessica crime

#dune #lady jessica #jessica atreides #rebecca ferguson #my edit #dune 1965 #dune 2021

[nalyra-dreaming]

Reading Dune - I really wished they’d left that in the movie(s)… what a prediction:

#dune #frank herbert #written 1965

[cosmonautroger]

Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

#Frank Herbert #Dune #1965

[gameraboy2]

Dune Paperback cover by John Schoenherr, 1965

#dune #John Schoenherr #1965 #1960s #vintage #painting #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #art #illustration

[vintagelasvegas]

In and over the pool at the Dunes, 1965

Kodachrome from Hully

#1965 #Dunes

[iggyfing]

read three or four chapters. i feel like having watched the movie (and also prior secondhand exposure courtesy of ladypep) is a help bc it really does just dump you right in w a ton of terminology and politics you have NO context for. even with the index of terms in the back.

#also someone put parentheses around the litany against fear and also the lines about thinking machines bad #hold on let me go look them up #''Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machine #to enslave them.'' #''[...] 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a /human/ mind.' [...]'' #like. man. ur so right dune 1965 by frank herbert.

[nihil-ism]

#dune #I know this has been posted a lot but I started finally reading the books and ....1965 huh? #people really had the gift of foresight

[pixelpapi]

dunes hotel and casino - las vegas (1965)

#dunes #las vegas #nevada #las vegas strip #1965 #60s #vintage architecture #neon #pastel #sunset #aesthetic

[memoriesoftanalorr]

What I watched on TV in 2023 and what I want to watch on my laptop

2023

TV

Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2

Midsomer Murders

What I watched/want to watch in 2024

Watched

The Librarians season four

What I want to watch

Star Wars The Phantom Menace

Star Wars A New Hope

Dune by David Lynch

Luv this actor as Paul so much X3

Dune 2021? (I'm kinda curious and afraid if I don't like it)

The secret World of Arrietty

Shang Chi and the legend of ten rings

The Great Race 1965

Someone says Peter Falk? No way I'll skip this! 💕

#my thoughts #dreamworks animation #star wars #dune #david lynch #dune 2021 #the secret world of arrietty #shang chi and the legend of the ten rings #the librarians #midsomer murders #kung fu panda #kung fu panda 2 #star wars phantom menace #star wars a new hope #The Great Race 1965

[eric-generic]

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

-- Piter De Vries, the Mentat

#dune #1965 #drugs

[pleckthaniel]

anyway check out what I found in my grandpa's old study

#been trying to figure out what year this edition is from cuz #everything i can find on it says 1965 but i know this isnt the forst edition cover #but idk #scout talks #dune

[spacepunksupreme]

I my hold is finally ready for me at the library, but … the Images … the desire to create Images in Sequence … ceaseless, she haunts me

#I want to draw SO MUCH LESTAT. I’m going to want to draw MORE LESTAT when I start this book it never endsssss #there’s ONE comic that I absolutely need to make before I start reading. it feels absolutely necessary to me and it’s only two panels it’s #like a single line gag. but it’s the kind of joke that benefits from being fully drawn. it cannot be doodle-quality it has to be like DRAWN #I was gonna use my free morning time tomorrow to rewatch The Skull (1965) with Peter Cushing but maybe I’ll spend it drawing this comic .. #we’ll see … #anyway I just went through my fanart ideas folders in my notes and there’s 83 in the dune folder so. ya know lol #im mystified by artist who run out of ideas for things to draw lol. couldnt be me. my mind is a sea of 2-4 panel gags and illustrations lol #hannah is talking

[thebookbin]

Dune

Frank Herbert

Publisher: Ace Genre: sci fi Year: 1965

So I just finished Dune. I first read it in 5th grade and I’m glad I took the time to reread it but also... not.

A lot of the hot takes about this book revolve around the white savior narrative but this book is a criticism of the white savior narrative. The only problem is that to criticize it, it includes the white savior narrative.

Paul, the main character, is the villain of the story. The interesting thing is that his opponents are also villains: imperialism has rendered the universe flawed with no obvious “good guy.”

Paul is definitely a white boy power fantasy. He is trained in all manner of fighting and his mother’s magic, but of course he surpasses her and eventually can see all of time: past-present-future. What starts as a boy’s quest to avenge his father becomes a new emperor’s takeover of the universe.

The first half of the novel is unbearably slow. So much time is dedicated to politics and such tiny machinations it comes as a shock when they are betrayed and the House Atreides falls to ruin. It really feels like the stakes are so high because we as the reader were invested in these politics only for them to become useless. But then the book just blasts forward so fast and abandons that attention to detail in order to skip ahead in time all of the sudden Paul is married with a baby. We don’t get to witness his rise of power within the Fremen, which makes sense if you’re looking at this story through the anti-white-savior lens. The story focuses on Paul’s rise to power as an evil dictator, so the politics of the Fremen aren’t really as important, but it’s such a jarring switch of pace.

It also completely escaped me the first time, idk how because it’s not subtle, but the lesser baddie is gay—but not really. The evil Vladimir Harkonnen, who enslaved an entire planet and who is the colonizer supreme has a taste for little boys. This is supposed to highlight his unnaturalness: at one point he tells his men to drug a slave boy and put him in his room because he’s “not interested in wrestling”. That and the fact that he’s fat are supposed to signal to us that he’s evil, and it just really doesn’t sit well. Yes, gays can be evil, but you get the sense that this isn’t that—we’re supposed to be disgusted with the fact that he’s gay. For me it was the fact that they’re just boys, but you just know how the author thinks about queerness.

But on the other hand, it’s strangely progressive. One of the main characters, Lady Jessica, is one of the most powerful characters in the story and has a lot of her own agency, and yet at the same time how Herbert treats women really doesn’t sit well. Lady Jessica is a witch of the Bene Gessirit, who has cool powers and is part of a religious order. Her storyline is awesome. But although she physically fights a few times, again it’s very clear how Herbert views women. There are no female soldiers or just regular women around—even when they are physically capable they are still limited to other roles: mother, wife, priestess. There are just no regular women they way there are men.

Yet the final lines of the book are dedicated to the women: Lady Jessica, although beloved by the Duke, was never married to him and only a concubine. Minor spoiler: [ And when Paul marries someone he doesn’t love at the end of the book, his mother consoles the one he does love: “We who carry the name concubine, history will call us wives.” 

(end spoiler)]

I am fascinated by Dune's portrayal of religion: in that it’s entirely skeptical. In the book the Bene Gessirit are an intergalactic organization that want to bring about a powerful being through complicated breeding and genes. In order to do this, they go to planets and seed religions, and both Paul and Lady Jessica know this. Paul’s position as the Lisan al Gaib is literally a fake religion that the Bene Gessirit planted in their culture thousands of years ago and—even though both Paul and Lady Jessica know this, Paul actually begins to think he is the Lisan al Gaib and Jessica just kind of….lets him.

And Paul is so sure he’s the messiah and his visions are accurate but there’s literally no indication he’s actually seeing the future, he’s just kinda really confident about it.

All in all I enjoyed the macro political machinations and the really cool worldbuilding of Arrakis. But as someone who grew up religious I also think this book is too subtle. Paul is the villain but I guarantee 85% of white men who read this will come away thinking he’s the hero.

I understand what it was trying to do, I just don’t think it did it completely successfully. And while I understand it’s considered a classic and revolutionary in the genre, I’m not interested in reading a straight white man’s take on politics and the universe when there’s so much out there that interests me more.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★★ have the confidence of a straight white man stars

#book review #dune #frank herbert #science fiction #classic novels #sci fi #1965 #three stars #tw: homophobia #tw: sexism #tw: racism #featured #ace pub #messianic

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Dune

Author: Frank Herbert

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 1965

Genres: fiction, science fiction, fantasy, classics, adventure

Blurb: Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the spice melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for. When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined...and as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

#dune #dune messiah #children of dune #god emperor of dune #heretics of dune #chapterhouse dune #hunters of dune #sandworms of dune #frank herbert #series #1965 #fiction #science fiction #fantasy #classics #adventure

[porchtart]

i was talking about the vuliros worldbuilding again and i connected some dots that make me want to fucking die

#between dune (1965) and ramayana: the legend of prince rama (1993) my influences are so fucking obvious #and of course nordic trolls #i'm so fucking mad lmao #not genuinely because i think that understanding what had an influence on my art and storytelling is important #and allows me the opportunity to reexamine those works and thinking about where they may have had some fucked up messages #and allows me to think about how i want to avoid putting those same messages in myworks #but GOD DAMN IT LMAO #mr. herbert grabbed me by the brain as a teen and has apparently never let go #babbles

[honeysbunchesofoats]

"walk without rhythm to avoid attracting the worms"

is just avoiding patterns with the elder brain or whatever from a wrinkle in time

tbh I never understood why reciting the periodic table didn't have a cadence that fit the rest of the world? but that's just me

#i mean i guess ive also never had to recite the periodic table #a wrinkle in time #dune #AWIT WAS PUBLISHED FIRST DONT@ ME #books #honey rambles #awit was 1962 #dune was 1965 #yes i googled it to be sure