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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Frank Herbert
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> While we're on the subject, I lost all respect for Frank Herbert after he
> told us that the movie they made of _Dune_ was faithful to the book.

Well, the parts of the book they actually included in the movie were pretty
faithful to it, as long as you ignore the hood-less stillsuits. In fact this
was the real problem with the movie... it would have been better had they
gotten a competant screenwriter to change scenes (though not events) to match
the medium. Harlan Ellison would have been perfect. Then maybe they could have
included the whole story in outline instead of a couple of threads of it in
painstaking detail.