There was a Dune miniseries done a few years ago that was much better than the movie they did in the 80s. It followed the book much more closely.
Cameron On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:01 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Dune books, Dune movie, Dune video game. I only have experienced the > latter. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Friday, July 24, 2020 10:04:10 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] bored > > My wife was into science fiction. She always bought these every year: > > https://us.macmillan.com/series/yearsbestsciencefiction/ > > > > After she died, I took boxes of them to the AAUW book sale. > > > > She also tried to convince me Dune was great literature. I have nothing > against SF, but that’s not my idea of a good time. When I was a kid I > liked reading Jules Verne. And watching Flash Gordon in TV. > > > > There are some underrated old sci fi movies, like Forbidden Planet, Enemy > Mine, The Day The Earth Stood Still. Many movies were based on novels. > You could track down the books. I remember reading On The Beach. > > > > I used to watch stuff like Twilight Zone, I must be too lazy to read. > Maybe I need a cognitive test. Person, woman, man, camera, TV. > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/hwqglc/person_woman_man_camera_tv_hotdog/ > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Mark Radabaugh > *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2020 9:11 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bored > > > > So y’all were supposed to find me some other good SciFi books. There is > a lot of SciFi out there but the vast majority of it reads like the > narration of a first person shooter. Boring. > > > > Martha Wells “All Systems Red” is amusing. > > > > Mark > > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The movie is shit, but apparently it wasn't even supposed to be a Starship > Troopers movie. The original title was "Bug Hunt on Outpost 9". Someone > at the Heinlein estate thought it had too much similarity to Starship > Troopers and there was a legal dispute. The studio agreed to pay licensing > to use Starship Troopers IP. The director had apparently never even heard > of the book and was annoyed at having to rework the movie into the > "Starship Troopers" framework. > > > > On 7/24/2020 5:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Why are people talking about Starship Troopers lately? I’d never heard of > it. I asked my son what it was about and he said bugs. Bad bugs? Yes. > Good movie? Stupid movie. > > > > Was it satire? There’s a fine line between satire and stupid. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Mark Radabaugh > *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2020 4:15 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bored > > > > Heinlein hasn’t aged as well as I would have expected. Some great ideas > but the sex bits appealed a lot more to a teenage male than they do some 40 > years later. > > > > Asimov has held up very well - as good today as it was when it was written. > > > > For newer SciFi: > > > > I absolutely love Dan Simmons “Hyperion Cantos”. A bit slow to start but > a fantastic work. Don’t start it if you have other things you need to do. > > > > The “Imperial Radch” series by Ann Leckie is also one of my very > favorites. A bit hard to wrap your head around at first but once you > figure it out it’s excellent. > > > > If you want something that’s just a plain fun easy read - “Old Man’s War” > by John Scalzi is a concept straight out of Heinlein’s style, with a > slightly different twist on the sexuality. > > > > Mark > > > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I liked Heinlein's Starship Troopers. > > The idea that citizenship is not a birthright but something you earn > through service to society was interesting food for thought. It's not > something we could do realistically, but it was interesting to think > about. On the other hand, the idea that every soldier takes care of his > own logistics is pretty dumb though. Heinlein must have found it > objectionable to have more people in the rear echelon than you have actual > fighters, but frankly modern wars are won by logistics. Having more > soldiers is irrelevant if they don't have food, ammo, clothing, and fully > working equipment; and expecting every Gomer Pile to take part in every > aspect of that would be dumb. > > Puppet Masters wasn't bad either. It spawned the whole body snatching > subgenre in sci fi. > > > > On 7/24/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > I get Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair confused. Didn’t really like > either of them. Been a while since I read any Bradbury or Heinlein. > > > > *From:* Ken Hohhof > > *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2020 2:01 PM > > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bored > > > > I talked to an old college friend the other day, he had just read and was > recommending “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bored > > > > Books are better. > > I found the 1911 edition of the *Boy Scouts Handbook *enlightening. The > views expressed by the author(s) are a glimpse into a different time. It > also discusses survival and outdoor skills in broad terms. If you tried to > build a bow or a log cabin from the instructions in that book you'd have to > do a lot of your own figuring to fill in the blanks, but maybe that's the > whole point, and maybe that's the piece we're missing from society today. > Like maybe the journey of figuring out the precise techniques to carve the > notches into the logs is a better experience than emulating a you-tuber who > shows you every single step. > > My other recent recreational book was the *National Audubon Society Field > Guide to North American Trees*. I lived 40 years on this earth only ever > learning a handful of major tree types (Oak, Maple, etc). I'm embarrassed > to say I was calling every needle leafed tree a "pine" for most of those > years. I finally decided to educate myself on the topic. > > > > On 7/24/2020 3:29 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > I am not much of a sports fan... I thought. But with no sports on I am > really missing them. I would at times catch part of a game to pass the > time. That option is gone for the moment and there nothing but crap on to > watch... Need a good book I guess. > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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