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u/KenshiroTheKid · 8 pointsr/bookclapreviewclap

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u/duddles · 4 pointsr/audiobooks

Dune by Frank Herbert, narrated by Simon Vance and others.

Dune is an amazing book - I am in awe of the depth of the universe that Herbert created. It is filled with so many imaginative details, each of which could have been enough for any single SF novel. For example, the idea that humans outlaw machines that imitate human intelligence, so in response certain humans are created to be like computers themselves (called Mentats). This idea could be a whole book but it is just a small part of the dense fabric of ideas Herbert wove together. Dune also seems to cover almost every aspect of life I can imagine - politics, ecology, genetics, fate vs free will, class struggles, knife fights, giant worms, etc. It's really an amazing achievement.

I love the narration by Simon Vance and it's great to listen to as an audiobook to hear how all the difficult words and names are pronounced. It's a little strange that the other voices only pop up occasionally but they are good for the most part. I particularly liked the ultra deep voice of whoever played the Baron Harkonnen. The only annoying part was a section where Count Fenring speaks with a lot of stutters Ah-h-h-h Hmmm-m-m-m and you have to listen to the voice actor enunciate each stutter.

Overall though I would highly recommend it. An enjoyable way to spend 21 hours!

u/Ythin · 2 pointsr/Wetshaving

It's the one narrated by:
Scott Brick
Orlagh Cassidy
Euan Morton
Simon Vance
Ilyana Kadushin

Here is where you can get it on Amazon

u/Praxilla69 · 2 pointsr/scifi

I'm listening to this one. https://www.amazon.com/Dune/dp/B000R34YKC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493025985&sr=1-1&keywords=dune read by several different people.
Loving it so far.

u/cheerioh · 2 pointsr/dune
  1. First, I'm not sure the movie's pronunciation is canon; in fact, the Scott Brick audiobooks are much more reliable, since he consulted Brian Herbert for pronunciation advice, and Brian Herbert spent his childhood listening to his father read Dune out loud to his wife. If you're curious about canon pronunciations, that's probably as close as it gets.

  2. I'm a native Hebrew speaker, who also speaks Arabic. Dune is Rife with straight up Arabic terms, as well as some Hebrew here and there, and every time I hear a bastardized pronunciation of something that's blatantly Hebrew or Arabic, I'm torn: I want to give them the benefit of the doubt that 20 millennia can change a language beyond recognition, but I can't escape the thought of "goddamnit 'Murica, that's not how you say it":)

    Couple of notable examples:

    Kwisatz Haderach - indubitably inspired by the Hebrew Kabbalistic term " קפיצת הדרך, " "Kfitzat Haderekh", meaning "the Shortening of the Way". If that's the case, the stressing should be "kwiSATZ haDERach" (Iamb followed by a Amphibrach, if that makes sense) with "ch" really pronounced like "kh" (think Middle-eastern guttural as in "Lechaim").

    Bene Gesserit - בני גשרית - could have multiple etymologies, but from a Semitic perspective "Beni" is traditional Arabic for "sons of", "peoples of", as well as a village-town originally inhabited by a specific tribe. (Fun fact: "Bene" is the male, and the more appropriate word would have been "B'nat", "daughters", although since it's basically a people it's a little ambiguous, with male members clearly mentioned in Heretics and Chapterhouse). "Gesserit" is often associated with جزيرة, "Jazeera" (as in "El-"), meaning peninsula - but could also relate to the Hebrew "גשרית", "Gishrit", "bridge" or "bridging", so their name would be "the bridging ones".

    Just a couple of unorganized thoughts:). But yeah, the Scott Brick pronunciation is surprisingly authoritative, although there's no guarantee he didn't mess up on occasion.
u/BitterDivorcedDad · 2 pointsr/dune

Whenever I watch a movie made from a beloved novel, I have to remind myself that a film is merely a short story in terms of content, unless the source material contains florid descriptions of static scenery like a Tom Clancy novel.

That said, I re-read Dune (in the form of the unabridged audiobook) in December and then immediately watched the director's cut (but not the rumored four-hour version) of the Lynch film.

As I watched the film, my mind followed the plot of the novel, and I was pleasantly surprised that Lynch had been able to cram basically everything in terms of plot, even if he had to resort to crazy amounts of exposition, into the film. Yes, there were some odd choices made, such as the Weirding Modules (and the Atreides troops having previously received training in using them on Caladan). Both the novel and the film began with the move from Caladan and ended with the defeat of the Emperor, as well as his proxy, the Harkonnens, and Paul negotiating a marriage to Princess Irulan.

I wish that Lynch had focused more on the water scarcity aspect, although it is clearly present in the film. However, I realize that this is my thing, as I grew up in a place where it rains a lot and the plants and trees are a verdant green, but have spent most of my adult life living in a water-starved prairie. I do note that Lynch had lived on the east coast for part of his teen years, but I don't think that he really internalized the true abundance that comes from a place that has sufficient water - the lack thereof certainly shows in the film - or the truly desperate situation that arises from water-as-a-commodity, a wholly-owned resource.

u/killroytheloser · 1 pointr/dune

It's a bunch of people.

http://www.amazon.com/Dune/dp/B000R34YKC