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The Secrets Of Frank Herbert'S Dune

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Author Brian Herbert lets you in to his family and the challenges they faced from extreme poverty, to moving over 20 times, to the heights of wordly success and fame. Brian shares the pain, separation and rebirth he went through with his father in an intimate, revealing way that helps the readers face the issues they have had with their own parents. He covers his family's life with such detail that it has the effect of helping the readers open up, retrieve and remember their own lost personal memories.
If you have read "Dune," you will love the evolution of this timeless multi-dimensional story that is outlined in "Dreamer of Dune." This is an honest story of a real man's life that exposes both his light and shadow in the midst of creative genius.

finally,a bargain. a book with a dvd is a new animal, but it works well--the book gives you plenty of b/w and color photos and the factual background while the disk gives you art, footage and more!

A bit more in-depth discussion of the effects (and more importantly, some of the unconventional backlot techniques used to achieve them) would have been greatly appreciated. After watching the series I was personally impressed at the depth they were able to establish with such a (reportedly) small budget.

As stands, this book gives a great overview of the process and challenges that went into creating the excellent cable miniseries 'Frank Herbert's Dune', and I highly recommend giving it a read!

This is a great addendum to the Dune miniseries on the Sci-Fi channel. I thoroughly enjoyed the color section in the middle of the book and reading about the director and production of the expensive series. The DVD that came with it was fun but long winded at times when the interviewees went into what they 'believed' to be Frank Herbert's desires. But how could they know? Anyway, a good book for the Dune fan to pick up.

I don't have a DVD, so that part didn't make much difference to me. But I am a fan of Dune the book and a hater of Dune the movie. So I wanted to know what was going on with this television adaptation. Even though it's mostly a picture book, it still has a bunch of information. I really liked seeing all the photos. And I'm very happy they had a color insert so we could get an idea on how the sets really look. I liked this book a lot--it made me want to see the show.

this disk works with any mac or win DVD player as well as on settops, so my initial concern was assuaged. if you like William Hurt or Frank Herbert, it's the bomb!

the books were classic. the 1st movie was horrible. the 2nd a little better, just too much like a play and not a movie, the book on the movie was a major stretch. if you like the movies/game,read the books, all 10 plublished, then youll see how much of a joke it was to put the story into this format.

What ..., anyone who read the entire Dune series of books will ask themselves " what book was read to come up with this?" pictures are worth a thousand words, so far I've only seen 10 or so worth reading. Although the Movie Dune was bad, the Cable production was a bit better in following the actual feel for the technology of the books. But as for the characters? Who were these people?

Read the books, forget anything that was filmed or any book made to explain the films.

Ok first off, I love the origanl Dune movie, I think it was great, in fact I am waiting for the supposed three hour version simaler to the Sci-fi channels version of the movie they played about 5 or 6 years ago.
The made for Tv version of the movie was awful. The acting was OK. But did you see the Cheesey back drops. I didnt beilve for one second that they were in a deserst. Yes it was more true to the book than Lynches version, but Lynch seemed to get the Harkkonnes on the nose, and in the TV version they seem, almost nice and tame in comparison.
The DVD is pretty cool, but it showes even more how low budget and cheesy the tv version of the moive is

Dune was always a great movie a great series of games which keep growing and I am happy about it and I can say books are probably good too. Long live Dune and the fight for spice, I always thought it was just a game a while ago till I learned that movie was released before the game was even made. I learned that the game was based on the movie and I think it was all a really good idea!