• combat_brandonism [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      book 4 spoilers

      that’s Children of Dune, by God Emperor he’s a full grown thousands-year-old worm with a giant human face

      I think he kills one of his Duncan Idaho clones by rolling on him. weird book

      • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        oh wow that does get weird. i know warhammer 40k is basically a ripoff of dune and Micheal moorcock novels but thats seriously 40k levels of weirdness

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        Going from book 3 to 4 is a fun and wild jump, although I don’t recall reading much past 4 if at all. Might be time for a re-read, haven’t read past book 2 since high school.

        How is the series after book 4?

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        book 4 spoilers

        Unrelated but I have no where else to post about the dune thoughts that consume my mind:

        I think it would have been so much cooler if Ganema was still around in book 4, not as a sandworm but the EXTREME end case of the bene gesserit ability to alter the metabolism to basically stop aging. Their dialogue with each other in dune 3 was awesome and is something lacking in 4, clear, distinct conversations not clouded by 106 layers of leto II fucking with whatever human gnat he was speaking to. I also think it would be a sick contrast, and allow exploration of another perspective of the bitterness of the passage of time, leto is bored and complains about a lot of stuff, but imagine ganema a withered skeletal wraith, like golum but way worse, her perspective would be so different, excited for death and freedom from the golden path probably, just like leto, but very different