Yes

What about this?

Dunno, have some random ones

What's it about?

Political Islam raising to power in France 2022. It's fiction.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/110256908?shelf=read

Seems like nonfiction to me

I finished reading American Psycho is two days and then steamrolled Dune in a day and a half.

t.reeder

I'm reading Fall of Hyperion and honestly I don't know why I'm doing it, SciFi FOMO I guess. It was the same with the Dune Saga every third page I'm thinking this is some pretentious bullshit or this is is so unrealistic, how people agreed to just not build robots or AI for 10k years and a hundred other dumb details

Herbert explains in the Dune universe the rejection of computers as a necessity of man to strive forward in formulated eugenics instead of relying on computers to give us a false sense of enhancement. He saw our reliance would be our downfall and jihad against computers as an inevitable contraction of man's fear of being obsolete.

That and spice is the crutch of it all. Without spice, there would be no mentats or guild navigation or conquests.

That's a dumb explanation because you can have many kinds and levels of AI and people wouldn't just bend over accept a life of serfdom for millenia just because of some distant memory of AI being bad. Even the token ixian lampshading is dumb cause without computers no one can track deep space research stations or any of the myriad of oportunities to gain the upper hand by AI and get away with it. If it's like a "celebration" of humanity it fails cause it's completly artificial to represent a humanity so zombiefied. As I said it's one detail that came to mind but there are plenty others like how in the world spice can't be sintetized or people have to breed like dogs to get traits when everyone knew about DNA in Herbert's time. How there are millions of super commandos in the desert but no one knew abot them and they never took tried to take out the literal slavemongers hunting them? It's a somewaht interesting story if you skip the pretentious dialoge but the worldbuilding is for shit.

All of them.

I decided to read Moby dick

boring.

boring

I think it's a crock of shit considering there's mutants among the guild and the Tiexelian ability to morph into any shape they so desired or their group's uncanny ability to revive dead humans with or without their previous consciousness.

I finishes Dune Messiah last night and felt it was missing the world building the first fitfully strived to push. The dialogue was ambiguous and lacked the page turning journey of the first. I'm glad Paul is dead. He's a mary sue and too easy to write for and rhat includes his spawn.

I do agree there's too many plot holes. Asimov is the better writer about ai, where as Herbert is the ecologist people were yearning for in his time.

I enjoyed his book The Possibility of an Island.