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‘God gave us Trump’: Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Why can't I escape Dune? Maybe the worse novel I ever read except I managed to get into about halfway into the sequel which is somehow even lower.
The only things I like about the Dune franchise
The original movie. Most excellent. Almost no religious bullshit and plenty of worms
Teasing a friend of mine in IT about how in the Dune universe IT has to "service" the Mentants and clean the tanks of the navigators.
I still can't get over the fact that the book has extra chapters of explanation of the plot in the back. You have to do fucking homework to read the novel!
Couldn't just gradually fill in details as it went along like every sci-fi novel out there?
I was a bit curious how buddhaislam was supposed to work.
@afraid_of_zombies I gleaned nothing from his writings 😅
...man, stay away from tolkien...
@myrrh @afraid_of_zombies for good reason
Here, here! I fucking hate Tolkeins writing. Hell even Asimov gets into way too much tellling, not showing. I most certainly am not reading some fucking appendix because the author is too much of a hack to write some exposition between a few characters explaining the rules of the story. It's like fucking Niel Stevenson giving a very bland and basic-ass lesson in vocabulary at the start of Anathem. Go climb up into your asshole farther, Niel. If I'm reading sci-fi in English I know how to look up a word, and most certainly don't need you to fucking explain it to me.
@aniki LOOOL NEAL STEPHENSON overrated shit!! I don't care what people codified, I give stuff separate star ratings for writing and worldbuilding etc