Spice Melange
So I finished my audio book version of Dune today. It's kinda funny that I've waited this long to read/listen to it. I first learnt of Dune around 1992-3 (though I could have sworn it was earlier, but this is what Wiki tells me) when the game came out. I played it, and God did I love that game. I even downloaded it a year or so ago, and specifically got a dos emulator to play it again. It was one of my favourite childhood games (along with Monkey Island and Indiana Jones games) and for years I never knew that it was based on a book. I just thought it was an awesome game where your eyes slowly turned a funky blue colour in it.
Several years after this I saw part of...the...tv/movie/series whatever it was, and I was elated. It was brilliant to see characters I had grown to know and love on tv as real people rather than pixels, though I wasn't entirely following the story because it was closer to the book than the game was, and I missed a couple of the episodes... All I really remember of it is Paul and Jessica being picked up by the Fremen and making their way across the desert lots. It was around this time that I started to learn there were books of this. BOOKS! How could I not have known?
Admittedly, most of the books I had ever read were passed down from my mother, and many of hers were more teen things, Famous Five and such like, I believe she went from reading them to reading Romance novels which I am scared to touch. I saw the Dune series in Waterstones eventually, but was far too intimidated to get any of the books. Suddenly there were many things about Dune, and I was scared...
So we come to now. Hell, we even have a copy of Dune downstairs on our bookshelf, but I haven't read it. It's too big, and I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not (even though I knew that I would), so the logical answer was to see if there were audio books. And there were. I downloaded them an age ago, but didn't get around to putting them on my mp3 player until last week. I've spent the week listening to the first book in work, and now that it's over, I'm sad. But also, more in love with Arrakis than ever before.
Several years after this I saw part of...the...tv/movie/series whatever it was, and I was elated. It was brilliant to see characters I had grown to know and love on tv as real people rather than pixels, though I wasn't entirely following the story because it was closer to the book than the game was, and I missed a couple of the episodes... All I really remember of it is Paul and Jessica being picked up by the Fremen and making their way across the desert lots. It was around this time that I started to learn there were books of this. BOOKS! How could I not have known?
Admittedly, most of the books I had ever read were passed down from my mother, and many of hers were more teen things, Famous Five and such like, I believe she went from reading them to reading Romance novels which I am scared to touch. I saw the Dune series in Waterstones eventually, but was far too intimidated to get any of the books. Suddenly there were many things about Dune, and I was scared...
So we come to now. Hell, we even have a copy of Dune downstairs on our bookshelf, but I haven't read it. It's too big, and I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not (even though I knew that I would), so the logical answer was to see if there were audio books. And there were. I downloaded them an age ago, but didn't get around to putting them on my mp3 player until last week. I've spent the week listening to the first book in work, and now that it's over, I'm sad. But also, more in love with Arrakis than ever before.