Took a break from mangas and went back to the beloved universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Finally got to read the prequel written by Frank’s son. Finished House Atreides yesterday and am now into the fourth chapter of House Harkonnen.

I feel weird reading about the 40 to 50-ish crowd in the original Dune books now at their younger years. Leto became a duke at 16 and his concubine-to-be, Paul Muadib’s mom, the Bene Gesserit-trained Jessica was just born around that time. Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho, both originally from Geidi Prime, were around the same age (Gurney 21 and Idaho 20) in the book House Harkonnen. They didn’t look anything like they had such a close age range in the movie. Liet wasn’t the original Planetologist of Dune, his father was. And Liet’s around the same age as Jessica.

There are so many inconsistencies when it comes to the character’s ages in the books and the films. It really is better to read stuff like these instead of watching them. Well, that’s with the exception of Tolkien’s LoTR where I really liked the film much more than I did the books.

I have to find and buy the third of the prequel, House Corrino. Then again maybe I could just download it from Kazaa heheheh ^^

Wish the authors would write about the Butlerian Jihad though. Machines against humans... sounds a lot like the Matrix trilogy, ne? Wonder how they’d deviate from that movie if they were to write it though? Not my prob, they’re a pretty creative and talented lot so no worries for me, I’ll just have to wait till those books get out on the market.