Frank Herbert, the lion, the man and the moving van

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When we were 14 and books were still a thing, the most traded authors were Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne and Frank Herbert. Having a complete collection, or most of the books from one of these authors, you were more famous in town than the guys who pretend to buy a Lambo today, renting it instead for a week or two. I am talking about the 80s and 90s, a long time ago when the mobile phone was only a 1kg brick gimmick that some guy bought to impress women. Keep in mind that the first iPhone will be not launched until 2007.

So, as I try to remember, the full collection was the following:

• Dune
• Dune Messiah
• Children of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune
• Heretics of Dune
• Chapterhouse: Dune
• House Atreides
• House Harkonnen
• House Corrino
• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
• Dune: The Machine Crusade
• Dune: The Battle of Corrin
• Hunters of Dune
• Sandworms of Dune
• Paul of Dune
• Winds of Dune
• Sisterhood of Dune
• Mentats of Dune
• Navigators of Dune
• Dune: The Duke of Caladan
• Dune: The Lady of Caladan
• Dune: The Heir of Caladan
• Dune: Princess of Dune
• Sands of Dune
• Dune: The Graphic Novel Part I
• Dune: The Graphic Novel Part II - Muab'dib

They are quite a few, as you see, and the richest kids on the block used to have 6-8 of them. Of course, some may be quite recently published, yet, the idea remains. I am an adult, and it has been so long since I read them last time. I almost forgot about it, as reading the borrowed ones implied waiting quite a long queue, the town library was our secret weapon. They got more than one copy, and then at least one of each book, and even then, we needed to be quite lucky to find some. Oh, the memories.

As you can imagine, I was quite happy to see a new movie made, given how much the science of the cinema advanced since the previous book adaptation. The year 2000 mini-series was a bit of a failure, with all of its three episodes. A bit too cartoonish. The 1984 ones, do not even start to tell me, despite being nominated for the Oscars, and getting a Hugo Award and a Jupiter Award. Well, for that time, was good enough. But this time, we expected much more. And boy, oh, boy, we were not disappointed. I am not commenting about this from the perspective of a 20-year-old, whose knowledge is based on the last three Star Wars movies (yeah, they do suck mostly), but from the point of view of somebody who read most of the books. The movie is good, and while they ignored some problematic issues because of too much money needed to add them to the movie, the first one was decent, and the second even better. Shall as just say, as a fun fact, that the first two movies are based just on the first book? Plenty to come, yet, the following ones may need serious CGI to raise the bar. The emperor god of Dune, some immortal man-grandfather-sandworm hybrid. If you get this right, the rest will be easy. Navigators? Mentats? Bene Tleilax? Boy, this would be so cool. If they get it right.

This is all that I can say without any spoilers. Go to the movie and tell me what you think about it. This is all for today, as the #MarchInLeo theme was quite fun for the day.

All the best,

George

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