Re: Dune

> I read the original trilogy of books a long time before the movie came out.
> _Dune_ was probably my favorite book of all time and I absolutely couldn't


> plot was incomprehensible even if you had read the book. I have no idea
> what people who hadn't read it thought it was about.

     My friends that I went with were lost.  They walked in with a bad
feeling when the ticket vendor handed us glossary pages.  Pretty tough movie
when they include a dictionary in the ticket price! 

     I liked it when I first saw it, but I think it was more for the *look*
than the story, which I didn't read until later.

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