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From: phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)
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Subject: Frank Herbert
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 11:47:45 EDT
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In article <527@linus.UUCP> cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas) writes:
>
>I prefer Dune and Lord of the Rings (among various other reasons) to
>Blytons' works because both Herbert and Tolkien display cogent and
>sweeping imagination, enough to create complete worlds and universes from
>scratch and bring them to life on paper.  A child reading either of these
>books will have his mind stretched in several directions, something
>Blytons' books are too simplistic to provoke.  On the other hand, if the
>objective is to keep the little darlings away from the television until
>after they've had din-din, then Blyton will suffice ....

Excuse me, but Frank Herbert has only written one book.  But he wrote it
over and over and over and ...
I don't mean just that *all* the _Dune_ sequels are trash (anybody care to
argue that point?) but all his other books read like _Dune_.  There is the
same tenseness about small, seemingly insignificant details which could
change the course of history.  It  was interesting in _Dune_, but three or
four books of it is too much.

While we're on the subject, I lost all respect for Frank Herbert after he
told us that the movie they made of _Dune_ was faithful to the book.

					Tommy Phillips