dune Kammar best book i ever read its by Frank Herbert if anyone cares 030630 ... Dafremen Anyone does. 030701 ... Kammar mmm, Fremen 030702 ... nick First law of Mentat: A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. -Dune Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. -Mentat Handbook until you read these books you can't understand how they changed my life. unless of course you know me... or go here -- http://tim.oreilly.com/sci-fi/herbert/index.html ah... and Brian... keep it real man 031102 ... australian highrise I attempted to read the book once. then I just went the all-american way and rented the dvd, watching it past midnight whilst painting my fingernails and laughing at some of the special effects and wooden actors. still a good story, though. 060613 ... birdmad forget the 1984 movie, as much as i love the cinematic mind-jobs that are the works of David Lynch, the movie is it's own thing. do yourself the favor and give the book another shot, and then watch the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel Mini-series if you want a film version that stays a little closer to the source material 070629 ... grendel i am re-reading the book for the first time in over 20 years, i liked it back then, but i was a tiny bit too young and dense to understand it all... now, however, i love it. 070629 ... zeke i will not fear... 070629 ... grendel living in a desert city, i can appreciate the richness of Herbert's imagery all the more 070629 ... Ouroboros ahhhhh amazing book. i was just discussing it today. just reread it last month. still in love with it. scifi at its best 070629 what's it to you? who go blather from