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rhienellethDune is FINALLY available as an e-book - well, for Kindle, anyway. I have looked everywhere for an ebook version since getting Kindle, and sure, they have other books in the series, but not THE book that started it all.
Despite a very strong dislike for some of the later books, Dune remains one of my favorite books of all time. I'm pretty cynical about a lot of books and their supposed layers of meaning and depth - the college English track pretty much burnt me on a lot of that. Not that books aren't layered and deep, but come on, how many times can a person read Heart of Darkness?? (blech!)
Dune, however, is one of those books that impresses the hell out of me every time I read it. It's literary genius, and I don't care who wants to argue the point. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it! Anytime someone talks about "genre" books as somehow lesser, it pisses me off - duh, i'm a genre writer. All of my favorite books are genre books. But I often tell them to read Dune - which is taught in several college literary courses throughout the country, snap! (I have no idea if I just used that properly, but it felt right at the time.)
Anyway. Dune. On my Kindle. Available to me to read, whenever the hell I get the urge to crack it open. Reason #47 to love my Kindle. :)
Despite a very strong dislike for some of the later books, Dune remains one of my favorite books of all time. I'm pretty cynical about a lot of books and their supposed layers of meaning and depth - the college English track pretty much burnt me on a lot of that. Not that books aren't layered and deep, but come on, how many times can a person read Heart of Darkness?? (blech!)
Dune, however, is one of those books that impresses the hell out of me every time I read it. It's literary genius, and I don't care who wants to argue the point. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it! Anytime someone talks about "genre" books as somehow lesser, it pisses me off - duh, i'm a genre writer. All of my favorite books are genre books. But I often tell them to read Dune - which is taught in several college literary courses throughout the country, snap! (I have no idea if I just used that properly, but it felt right at the time.)
Anyway. Dune. On my Kindle. Available to me to read, whenever the hell I get the urge to crack it open. Reason #47 to love my Kindle. :)
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Date: 2008-09-13 02:05 am (UTC)And you're not the only former English major who hated Heart of Darkness. Ugh!