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Subject: Obsessed with Dune
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You know you're obsessed with Dune when...

* You recite the Litany Against Fear compulsively.
* You try to attach homemade Maker hooks to an earthworm.
* You voraciously consume cinnamon, hoping it will give you prescient visions.
* You refer to Bedouins as Fremen
* You make your own crysknife.
* You destroy your computer in the name of the Butlerian Jihad.
* You have your own collection of Duncan Idaho figurines--one for each Duncan owned by Leto II.
* You know who Leto II is.
* You walk erratically over sand, afraid that you might attract a worm.
* You make your own stillsuit out of Saran Wrap.
* You actually know what the hell I'm talking about.

If you have any idea of what I'm talking about, add your own to the list.

  • 01.20.2005 6:38 PM PDT
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  • 01.20.2005 6:43 PM PDT
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* You own all of the Dune games: Dune, Dune II, Dune 2000, and Emperor of Dune
* You try to special order the spice Melange from your local grocery chain
* You spend years trying to figure out how the Ornithopter works
* You think Star Wars stole the rebel planet Caladan's name from house Atreides' homeworld
* You actually post something about Dune...

  • 01.20.2005 6:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: sexy legs davis
* You actually post something about Dune...


I like that last one the best.

  • 01.20.2005 6:54 PM PDT
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* When you actually liked the movie.

  • 01.20.2005 6:54 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

You know your Not obsessed with Dune when...

* You don't know what Dune is, and would like someone to explain it to you.

  • 01.20.2005 6:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Pink Menace
You know your Not obsessed with Dune when...

* You don't know what Dune is, and would like someone to explain it to you.

I've only played the game from Westwood. It was an okay game.

  • 01.20.2005 7:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Pink Menace
You know your Not obsessed with Dune when...

* You don't know what Dune is, and would like someone to explain it to you.


A sci-fi book series that deals with everything from ecology to religion to sociology to the workings of time and back again. It's very prone to attracting a cult-like following (the very thing the author did not want to happen).


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  • 01.20.2005 7:02 PM PDT
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-When every single internet alias you use is a Dune name.

Here's all of mine:
-Ix
-Shai-Hulud
-Shaitan
-Tleilaxu Master
-Scytale
-Master Scytale
-Bene Tleilax
-Tleilaxu
-God Emperor
-Tleilaxu Face Dancer

-Also, when you use the Litany against fear as your AOL info.

And I thought I was the only one obsessed with this series.

Unfortunately, however, the Jihadi prequels did suck quite a bit... Damn Frank Herbert's son.

  • 01.20.2005 7:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Pink Menace
You know your Not obsessed with Dune when...

* You don't know what Dune is, and would like someone to explain it to you.


A sci-fi book series that deals with everything from ecology to religion to sociology to the workings of time and back again. It's very prone to attracting a cult-like following (the very thing the author did not want to happen).


Not only that, but this book series is incredibly deep. I don't believe anyone has actually managed to figure out what the real theme of the book series is... But when he says that it deals with everything, believe it. Everyone should read the book because of that very fact... it has something for all. It also has some strangely frightening reality-parallels, in some parts. Its hard to explain just what Dune is... you have to experience it for yourself.

  • 01.20.2005 8:00 PM PDT
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* When you have the sudden urge to consume coffee with cinnamon when you see the words, "Spice Coffee."
* When you think, What would Duncan do? when faced with difficult dicissions.
* When you get upset by the fact that Frank Herbert never let poor Duncan Idaho really die.
* When you think the Bene Tleilax is the most interesting society ever conceived.
* When you think Tleilaxu names are awesome: Bijaz, Scytale, Tylwyth Waff (now there's a tongue-twister).
* When you watch the movie and miniseries, even though they suck, simply because its Dune.
* When you get all excited when a thread entitled "You know you're obsessed with Dune when..." pops up.

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Hey! Theminiseries sucked! But it was still really really cool! I haven't even read the books! Should I?

  • 01.20.2005 8:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Texas Ben
I haven't even read the books! Should I?


Yes, at least the first one. If you don't like the first(original) book, then you won't like the rest at all.

And, I'll throw in one of my own reasons...
* You know you're obsessed with Dune when you know what "Ghanima" means.

  • 01.20.2005 9:28 PM PDT
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* You know you're obsessed with Dune when you know what "Ghanima" means.


Poor Ghanima... although she really didn't mind having the name that she did... I suppose, being Abomination and all, she knew why she was named that, and merely accepted it.

  • 01.21.2005 9:23 AM PDT
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* You re-cycle your bodily waste....

Seriously, what did they do when they needed... did they, er, "re-cycle" that too?
It's so long since I read Dune.

  • 01.21.2005 11:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Texas Ben
Hey! Theminiseries sucked! But it was still really really cool! I haven't even read the books! Should I?


From the brief pictures I've seen of the miniseries, it looks kind of cool. Is it really terrible? Did it do Dune justice at all?

  • 01.21.2005 2:23 PM PDT
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You are just like my brother...I HATE DUNE...Damn i want a cookie >.<

  • 01.21.2005 2:29 PM PDT
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Dune mini-series sucked, but children of Dune was a wonderful improvement, not very much Dune:messiah content in it, but hell , that book was small, and the only one I almost got bored with. As for the rest of the books, awesome. Prequel books, I've only house atriedes, and currently reading house Harkonnen. The tail end of Children of Dune, and God emperor of Dune are my faves. David Lynchs film was weird, but not bad. I watched it as a child, that's what got me interested in the books.

  • 01.21.2005 10:55 PM PDT