« Three Skull Mountains By The Sea », c. 1975

by Ray Feibush (British artist, 1948-1998)
Cover illustration of "The Best of Frank Herbert, 1952-1964", Angus Wells ed., Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RayFeibush #SciFiFantasy #FrankHerbert #darkfantasy

"Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." - Frank Herbert, "God Emperor of Dune"

#Quotes #FrankHerbert #Dune #PrisonAbolition

#FrankHerbert's quote is regularly mistranslated. He was actually talking about beer.

"Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me ..."

#Beer #Dune

Overrated

You know what it is about this question that I don’t like? Obviously you don’t because why would you? Unless you’re a telepath or something which would make sense. And would be kind of cool. Are you? What I don’t like about this question is that it assumes the person answering it is not only a literary scholar or expert, but has the authority to decide and determine what we should and shouldn’t read, and why. I don’t care if it’s Janet Maslin or Roger Ebert, everything boils down to taste and personal preference (which might be the same things, I don’t know), and not to sound self-important, but I want to make those decisions myself.

So what does this all mean? It means that while I like reading a synopsis of a book or a movie, I don’t want to read reviews or look at ratings of a book or a movie.

Having said all that I’ll answer the question because a book just popped into my mind. I’m guessing someone out there is a telepath and put the thought there although I’m not sure how that would work because I haven’t published this blog yet. But then would that matter because the telepath would know what I’m typing here before I publish it, right?

The book: Dune by Frank Herbert
Why: I thought it was boring and I didn’t like Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvkICbTZIQ&list=RDyYvkICbTZIQ&start_radio=1

New Evidence That Frank Herbert Loved David Lynch’s Version of Dune

https://gizmodo.com/new-evidence-that-frank-herbert-loved-david-lynchs-vers-5458417

> A 1983 promotional interview with Frank Herbert and David Lynch, freshly posted on YouTube, features Dune author Herbert explaining in unambiguous terms his fondness for the Lynch Dune film that polarized his readers.

NOTE: The article is from 2010.

#Dune #FrankHerbert

I’m late to the Sabres of Paradise — Dune comparison and curious if anyone has read Sabres and know if it’s a compelling story, I mean apart from historical importance of the events.

#SabresOfParadise #Dune #History #LesleyBlanch #FrankHerbert