From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2019-05-21 20:57:53 +0000, Bice said:   
   > On Sun, 19 May 2019 09:13:57 +1200, Your Name    
   > wrote:   
   >> On 2019-05-18 09:35:17 +0000, T987654321 said:   
   >>>   
   >>> The book is way to deep to translate well into a movie even if someone   
   >>> like Ron Howard directed.  Might work as a miniseries.   
   >>   
   >> Syfy channel already made a three-part miniseries of 'Dune' ... and it   
   >> was garbage, just like all the others. It's impossible to make a good   
   >> version since the book is incredibly b-o-r-i-n-g crap in the first   
   >> place. The first "five chapters" are nothing but a continuous   
   >> description of the sand on the sand planet for a start.  :-\   
   >   
   >   
   > I'm not a big fan of Dune (I've read it three times trying to figure   
   > out why some people rave about it so much, and mostly came up empty),   
   > but you've made this claim a couple times now that the first X number   
   > of chapers are just descriptions of sand.  I'm assuming you never   
   > actually read the book, because that's just pure bullshit.   
      
   It's called an exaggeration ... but only slightly. I did try reading   
   the book years ago, but gave up because of the idiotically long and   
   incredibly boring descriptions of the sand planet.   
      
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