Hi.
Remember me?
I'm Nala.
I used to occasionally blog about Transformers and shit.
Alas, those days are pretty much few and far between given the fact that my life is usually full of real world important bad craziness now.
Remember how I was going to get around to finally organizing and getting rid of all of those boxes of robots? Yeah. Me too.
It never happened.
And... while trying to reorg the garage to continue ripping apart walls and studs I found even more f'n boxes of robots that I didn't bring in the garage.
Yeah. I'm really loving the robots these days.
Hi Nala. Just dropped by to let you know I'll stop bothering you/commenting/reading etc. (re: comment deletions) Whatever I guess.
Huh? I can't recall the last time I deleted anything here.
I was puzzled by your comment. I realized that for some reason your comments were getting shunted into the pending folder and I wasn't getting an email notification.
It is fixed now.
Hey Nala, I've been meaning to ask you a "Non Transformers" question for a while and I thought this would be a good post to do it in.
Why are the Kevin J. Anderson / Brian Herbert Dune books so awful? I've been a pretty big fan of the Dune movies for years but I only now just started reading the books. I'm about a quarter of the way through the first one.
I mean, I can see why people would hate the two sequel books they did. I read the descriptions of the plots and they sounded horrible.
But why do you think their prequels are awful as well (or do you feel that way)? The descriptions of the prequels sounded pretty interesting to me. I figured I'd ask for your opinion since I respect it and you seem to know a lot about Dune stuff.
Understand, I am a huge fan of Herbert's Dune... particularly God Emperor through Chapterhouse.
I find the all the McDune books to be horrible factory-churned out shit. The writing is awful and if they didn't have the "Dune" name on them they would likely have never been produced.
I find laughable the pair's story of finding Frank Herbert's hidden notes in a safe deposit box that nobody knew about.
Their comments that they had to write the prequels because there was so much set-up they had to do is utterly laughable. And then... while they were doing this, they were also retconning the originals so that they could continue to churn out more books that do nothing to actually advance or add substance to Herbert's originals.
Harkonnen No-Rooms? Amal? All they did for these prequels was take stuff from Herbert's later book Heretics and say some of that was in the past. It is just laughable within the structure and framework that Frank Herbert set up over the course of 20 years!
The Jihad books turned something best left as 10,000 year old myths (much as the content is in the original books) into Terminator. And bad Terminator at that!
I have no problem altering Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. Those became visions of multiple people... not just 1 person. Dune was 1 person's world.
And nobody wrote like Frank Herbert did so very few writers could actually supplement the originals.
If you can get your hands on the The Dune Encyclopedia that is out of print you will find an attempt at a historical book that is in the vein and spirit of the original books. That to me is more canon than anything the McDune books have said.
And one final thing while I rant: Ghola baby Leto II turning into a baby sandworm and then back! 'Nuff said!
Thanks Nala, I will skip the prequels on your recommendation.