DUNE BOOK CLUB!
October 13th, 2009 — 09:14 pm
At last! Beginning this Monday, October 19, I’ll convene the DUNE BOOK CLUB, right here on your friendly neighborhood Dharblog.
SUPER SIMPLE RUNDOWN:
1) We’ll read a certain prescribed amount of the book during the week, then on Mondays I’ll get the discussionizing started with a little post, and we can all join in by commenting on the post in the appropriately-named COMMENTS section.
2) The rules are a) Don’t Be A Jerk, and b) Don’t Be A Pottymouth. My mom looks at my blog sometimes, I don’t want her reading all your tee-tee/ca-ca language. Also, c) Don’t Spoil The Plot. Some of us might be reading it for the first time, so let’s try to respect that if so. If YOU’RE reading it for the first time, just speak up so no one ruins anything.
3) We’ll be confining the discussion to just the first book in the series, which is self-contained. It’s by far the best one anyway, and it’ll keep things simple, rather than looking at the larger (bizarrer!) story of the whole 6-book unfinished series.
4) We won’t be talking much about the movie, which I’m not a big fan of. You guys can if you like, but I’ll be keeping my posts on the book itself.
All are welcome! This is probably my favorite novel ever, and definitely the book I’ve learned the MOST from over the years. Whether or not you like science fiction, this book is CHOCK FULL of nuggets of wisdom, it’s pretty amazing.
FOR MONDAY’S MEETING, let’s read the first 40-something pages, depending on the edition you have access to. Read to the end of the chapter that begins “Paul watched his father enter the training room..” and ends with “..his new awareness denied it.”
Category: BLOG 24 comments »
October 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
dude, sounds great! I read Dune maybe 2 years ago and I’d be willing to revisit it again…
October 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I’m in! I’ve never read it before but have wanted to for a while now.
-strange man pat
October 14th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Excited!
October 14th, 2009 at 3:15 am
wait, only talking, no drawing?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Great idea! I’m in!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:56 am
40 pages!! :0
I’m doomed.
I will try!
October 14th, 2009 at 8:27 am
i’m in. do cliff notes count?
October 14th, 2009 at 8:27 am
awesome idea, dustykins.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Naseem you can do it! It’ll be more fun for you with the discussion, I bet. Don’t listen to poopie old Willa!
October 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Andreas, I will probably do a little sketch each week to accompany the posts, but we’ll be talking this time out.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I’m so totally there. Stoked.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I’m gonna go look for a used copy this afternoon. Have you guy’s seen Paul Pope’s Muad Dib / Dune practice page? It’s pretty sassy:
http://pulphope.blogspot.com/2009/10/muad-dib.html
October 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Harkonnen looks sweet coming from your hand! I’d love to join into this, but it won’t play.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
neeeat. i wanna try. i’ll go buy the book and get on the trolley.
man i saw a real life book club meeting at the book store in my neighborhood… it looked suuuuuper lame. but i bet this internet one will be great! Everyone should post drawings as we go along too!
October 14th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Pendletime! Yesssssssss I would love LOVE LOVE drawings. Do it! This will be good online-style, so we can’t smell each other. Although a real one would be AMAZING with the right crew, just like D&D.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Drawings are a must! Some friends of mine and I had a reading/drawing blog for a while but it got buried under other things. This is a good time for some nostalgia time.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
i like reading things! i’ll try and hit the strand this week and see what i can dig up! thanks for the hot tip peezah bazaskee! yeah i miss the literary debacle, drawing will be fun and educational![?] woo!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am
more reading drawing allies!
October 15th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
that paul pope page made me salivate . . . and then collect my saliva in case I got caught in a sand storm away from sietch . .and . . .ummm . . .errrr . . .
October 18th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Pen Ward told me about this here book club and told me to “get on the trolly”. I’ve never read Dune, but I bought it a while back and have yet to dive in… so here i gooooooo
October 18th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Uncle Phil you are welcome, although I don’t remember you from any family get-togethers. You might be one of those “notorious” uncles that my Mom and Biggie would sometimes refer to.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Almost at pg. 47 (stopping point for my edition of the book). Looking forward to the discussions and drawings!
October 19th, 2009 at 2:49 am
I’d love to do the sketch thing too, but my scanner access is very intermittent
October 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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