He shortened his life by at least a decade. We should express our appreciation.

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Give the man a Darwin Award.

Fair enough. I don’t begrudge your enjoyment.

You expressed surprise that Herbert is a rabid conservative. I pointed out that the book you claim to like is a celebration of fascism.

Yeah, but that isn’t why people like it.

Correct. People like Dune because it’s the biggest book they’ve read, not because they were paying attention to the prose or narrative quality of its insane plot.

The story glorifies a eugenically engineered monarchy and waxes poetic about the evils of homosexuality.

Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is supernatural nonsense written by a misogynistic homophobe who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.

Yes, but the book also became really popular among the Gen X crowd, whose hunger for sci fi was fueled by things like Star Wars.

Although the movies are better than the books, the actual story is spectacularly awful. Have you ever had someone try to explain it to you? It’s unhinged. And the book is so poorly written from a literary perspective. Dune is Twilight for Gen-X’ers.

Frank Herbert is such a narcissist he actually accused Star Wars of ripping him off.

It’s a relief then that Dune is one of the dumbest fucking stories of all time and casting doesn’t matter.