Tom Melly wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:38D90314.E837832C@pacbell.net...
> >
> >
> > Chris Huff wrote:
> >
> > > I read one of the Dune books, and apparently, almost all of the land of
> > > Arrakis was just sand with no rock structures. There was a huge "wall"
> > > of rock, I think it was artificial(maybe that is what happened to the
> > > rock formations, they were scavenged for construction material. I don't
> > > remember very well, though).
> >
> 
> There was, AFAIK, quite a few bits of rock in the book. Paul and his mother
> escape from a sandworm after the thopter crash by moving into a rocky area.
> Most of the Freeman water reservoirs are in rock caves.
> 
> God, the movie stunk - main reasons? Lynch didn't give a damn, the Baron
> should have lived in opulent splendour, Paul was badly cast, it wasn't six
> hours long, and Hollywood probably couldn't cope with the idea that the
> heroic Freeman should all have been played by fanatical Arabs....


I consider myself a well read but discriminating sci-fi reader and the
truth be told I thought the Dune series was an aweful bore. I liked the
movie because there was so much to laugh at.

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