tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465120560345153062.post87250318492885550..comments2023-10-17T21:58:52.252+10:30Comments on Prone To Reverie: Clinical audit auditPTRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804620638450848244noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465120560345153062.post-25646757519409851762011-10-05T21:03:38.999+10:302011-10-05T21:03:38.999+10:30I believe I have read it but I don't remember ...I believe I have read it but I don't remember anything much about it, perhaps I've lumped it in with the Dune saga. I tend to latch onto an author and read everything I can get my hands on. Asimov took a while!<br /><br />I would very much like to develop this skill of reading 50 pages or so of a book and being able to put it down after deciding it was rubbish. Unfortunately I just cant do it and must finish any book I start (or worse, series). I've wasted an awful lot of reading time on some real shitty stuff.Leon Polokovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740888926038927940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465120560345153062.post-4806093094706598252011-09-30T23:56:09.288+09:302011-09-30T23:56:09.288+09:30I couldn't agree more. Well, I suppose I coul...I couldn't agree more. Well, I suppose I could but it would be all YEEEEEAHH BABY!!!!!!!! which isn't really my style.<br /><br />I bought the book about the Butlerian Jihad in an airport. I forced myself to read the first fifty pages even though I soon realized that it was really really awful. Unreadably awful.<br /><br />Have you ever read The Dosadi Experiment? It's like version zero of Dune. Not very good but has so many of the same ideas in there that he's trying to work out.PTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01804620638450848244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465120560345153062.post-28717999328336646612011-09-30T17:27:12.236+09:302011-09-30T17:27:12.236+09:30A few years ago I decided to read all the Dune boo...A few years ago I decided to read all the Dune books including the short stories in some sort of chronological order according to the Dune universe.<br /><br />I had, naturally, read the 5 or maybe 6 Frank Herbert book many years before and many times over. I had not read the additional 4,375 books by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson though.<br /><br />I would like to recommend to anyone contemplating reading Dune to just stick to the bits written by Frank Herbert. Reading the prequels and sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson just made me quite cross. Cross enough that I wrote a letter to Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson expressing my disappointment which I never sent.<br /><br />I think if I were ever to run into either Brian Herbert or Kevin J. Anderson I would mostly likely frown very very sternly at them.<br /><br />Oh, and congratulations on cracking the 20 followers mark!Leon Polokovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740888926038927940noreply@blogger.com