"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
Dune is awesome, but stop reading the series when Frank Herbert's son's name starts appearing on the book covers. A Wrinkle in Time is also an excellent book, even if the movie was terrible.
I had never read Dune before as I had put it off for no apparent reason. Most of my friends have read it. I had seen the Lynch movie a few times and was a little worried at all the kwisatch haderach/bene gesserit/CHOAM stuff at the start of the book as I thought it would get too confusing. It was a good read though. I heard the second book isn't very good though.
My son is enjoying A Wrinkle in Time. I'm enjoying reading it instead of the entire Harry Potter series that we slogged through.
All of the Dune books in the original series are pretty much excellent except God Emperor. That is a dud not a Dune. Still, for continuity, you pretty much have to read it.
Chapterhouse is really good. Using sex as a weapon is a great idea.
The Prequels are not as good but still worth reading if you get into Dune.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
Oh, I've seen several versions of the Lynch movie. They are all good.
I was skeptical of the Science Channel movies but they were actually very well done.
Shai alude dudes.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
If you haven't, watch this documentary on a failed attempt to make another Dune movie.
Jodorowsky's Dune
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4OCeSTL08
"Alejandro Jodorowsky had originally planned on filming Dune in the early-'70s, and had enlisted the help of Jean Giraud and H.R. Giger to create the movie's visual style. Salvador Dalí was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor, and Jodorowsky also intended to cast his own son Brontis Jodorowsky as Paul, David Carradine as Duke Leto, Orson Welles as the Baron, and Gloria Swanson as the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. The soundtrack was to be done by Pink Floyd, whose compositions would represent the progressive House of Atreides, and influential 70s French progressive rock band Magma, whose compositions would represent the evil House of Harkonnen."
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine