The Spoons That Are My Ears!

I made a sylabub owl and a plum duff ferret. They was rubbish.
 

I have of late, though I know not why, been reading Frank Herbert. I find him to be in total accord with my own principles and a man 10,000 years ahead of his time; rather like the time that some of his more famous books take place! The ecological and political universe in which the Dune books are set speaks of a writer of superior intellect; rather like yourself!
 

Coincidentally I nearly bought the original six volume set of Herbert's DUNE sequence at a car boot sale last Saturday.

I read the first five of these when I was 16 years old but for some reason never managed 'Chapter House'.

My two favourites were the first book and 'Children of'. I was least thrilled with 'Heretics'.
 

I stopped more or less after 'God Emperor Of Dune'; I tried reading the ones that came after it, but frankly, they bored me. There is much discussion of whether the David Lynch film is better/worse than the US min-series; to my goodly self, 'tis a no-brainer. Only David Lynch could film an un-filmable book. To this day, I remain awe-struck and at the same time appalled by the Baron Vladimir Harkonen...