#my mother is also a dune hater like. i come by both my nerd cred and my taste for haterade honestly

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Can I ask why you're a dune disliker? I haven't read it myself but I'm curious as its always on my tbr

To be honest I'm sure there's many ideological reasons to dislike it, but I read it in high school and my gut reaction was in fact "wow so you're a white guy who knows Hebrew and Arabic root words, do you want a fucking cookie." Otherwise I just remember being kind of bored and also, because I am old enough to have not been super online in my mid teenage years, having a vague sense that stillsuits were definitely some kind of fetish and definitely not my kind of fetish; also I'm like, not terribly enamored of any kind of messiah narrative but I'm really not into one in which said messiah could credibly be played by Timothee Chalamet. Also I just looked it up on wikipedia to try to refresh my memory for the plot because I only recall vibes, and apparently it was intended as a rebuttal to Foundation, and while it has ALSO been like. at least 15 years since I read Foundation, I did fucking love Foundation.

Anyway, going purely off the vibes I do remember, it's best described as very annoying college sophomore who just got way into shrooms' shitty WIP except it's like, a cornerstone of modern science fiction. The movie might be good. I'm considering going to see the 1984 version of the movie which the local indie cinema is playing both because I do enjoy some David Lynch and young Kyle McLachlan. Perhaps check out the film and see if you like it and check it out because like, it is a wildly popular book and you probably should read it instead of going off my teenage opinion.