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[melengro.livejournal.com]

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[magical-poof.livejournal.com]

I read the first Dune... Then I looked up all the others and got a headache... -___-; I didn't like the lack of development for lots of the characters in Dune, anyway.

I really don't like that whole long-time-multi-spanning-generations thing. I tried it for the Ender series, but in the end, the only book I liked was the first one and parts of the second one were tolerable -- but after that it was crazy confusing and psychological and stuff. >_>

[melengro.livejournal.com]

The series gets a lot better once Alia goes insane. A lot.