Kushiel's Dart

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Okay, I will clearly be entranced by any piece of crap with a well-structured made up religion. Hi, I actually read _all_ the Dune books, and you know how unreadable they get.

When Phedre yells at Josclin with "This is what I do!" when he's all trying to carry her -- that's frigging awesome.

Hey, someone point me to some Delaunay/Alcuin slash, yeah? I sort of tried looking but the communities related to these books on LJ made my head hurt. A lot. In the bad way. It's like the Gor people, but with even crappier made up names. Oh, hey, did I say that in my outloud voice?

Anyway, fun read, but Phedre, you didn't know that at the time, WE GET IT, stop saying it every three pages.

Comments

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

Heaven help me, I could NOT read that series. I nearly cried. I have NO tolerance anymore. :(

[alterjess.livejournal.com]

Hi, I actually read _all_ the Dune books

Prequels too? (I made it through the first set, but threw Butlerian Jihad across the room about 50 pages in. Which is a shame, because with less craptacular writing, it could have actually been a story worth telling.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I read the first set, which were fine (crappy, but certainly more readable than the late books in the original series) and haven't attempted the second yet, although I've flipped through them at the store and have a bad feeling about it. I'll probably make the attempt at some point.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think you and I are on the same wavelength. I knocked over a lamp with Butlerian Jihad and ranted.

[raaven.livejournal.com]

I felt almost exactly the same way about the series. The alternate history/religion aspect made it worth the sometimes too-predictable story.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I'd be all over some good Delaunay fic. But I too fear the community, which is sad since IIRC a friend of mine is one of the folks who started the first fan community and stuff. It's just the kidn of thing that some people will take way too seriously, and no, you're not Phaedre just because you sub, kiddies.

[meta.ath0.com (from livejournal.com)]

Three PKD novels with well-structured made-up religions, in descending order of complexity:

A Maze of Death (http://www.phildickiangnosticism.com/mazedeath.html)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Galactic Pot-Healer