Harkonnen and Atreides in HH

[Emperor Harkonnen]

In the novel House Harkonnen, how come there is more about Atreides than Harkonnen since the book is called House Harkonnen.

I bought the book because I thought that it would tell much about House Harkonnen.

[el_d00d]

they're all like 33% Atreides, 33% Corrino and 33% Harkonnen, I think they only named the books like that so they would sell better

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Yeah right, 33% Corrino?

It is more like 5% Corrino and 20% Vernius.

[Baron_carl]

Does it matter? It's a great book that talks of all the great houses! ;D

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

When it is about Harkonnen it must to be about their worst enemy too. And in House Atreides is too a lot about Harks.

[Nefud]

Gunseng's right!

In both of the novels there are info about the Great Houses and other stuff too. I think the authors named these books HA and HH because they contain the partial story of HA and HH!

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Well, I haven't read House Atreides, but I intend too soon, after finsihing Dune.

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Its not the same, I mean not real Dune, but Brian did good work.

[Ligic_Tha_Master]

Are the house books good to read?

[Nefud]

Yes they're quite good.

But Gunseng's right again: it's not like the original Frank Herbert-styled Dune. It was more complex I think. HA and HH (and late on HC)  was created to answer all the questions about the prequels to Dune. (at least this is what I think ;D )

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I have read about 50 pages in Dune, and till now I think that HH is better than Dune, but that might be because I like the house Harkonnen better.

But I will perhaps change my mind when I have read the whole thing

[el_d00d]

blasphemy!!

[Colonel_Worf]

I'm only working my way through the second one, but the first one was mostly a Atreides/Vernius, while this one has a lot more Harkonnen stuff in it.

[Nefud]

Colonel_Worf: and how do you like them? And which do you like better: FH's Dune of the prequels?

el_d00d: I think you should respect people's personal opinion about anything.  ;D(I personally like Dune better than the prequels.) /But don't take this offensive ;)/

[Colonel_Worf]

How do I like them? Well, I really like Dune and Children of Dune. Dune Messiah was okay. As for the prequels, I think they are excellent. I read them very quickly, and I will be reading House Corrino when it comes to paperback. And next is the Legends of Dune trilogy. :) I may even buy those in hardcover.

[Nefud]

Well, until now only HA and HH was published and HC not....(I mean in Hungary) They were all hard-covered and I bought them no matter the money!! ;D

(Amd each costed about $9 only!!! ;D )

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

I prefer first three parts of Dune best but I like prequels more than heretics and chapterhouse. Not becouse its better wrote but becouse its real Dune like better. And Harkonnen are still there.

I can`t but nowhere House Corrino too :-X

[Emperor Harkonnen]

9$ is the same price I bought HH for too. But I think it should be cheaper. 9$ is too much.

Anyway, I bought the pocket version, so that's something else. And it was in english! It took me quite a while to read it

[Nefud]

Heh! I have the 1st 4 Dune books in English HA and HH in Hungarian. The Dune books are normal books but the prequels are hard-covered and the were the same price...  ;)

Yes it's hard to read it in English... (Thorup: where are u from?)

[Alexander_Ordos]

HC is the best Dune novel ever I recomend you to read it!!!  * applause*

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Well, if only I had it.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I'm from Norway.

And I don't have the opportunity to read the books in norwegian, cos they're not translated.

But it could have been worse, what if I had the grade F in english! :(

[Nefud]

They are not translated to Norvegian??  :P Shame on them!  ;D This sucks! I feel luckyer (or luckier I dunno) every day!  ;D

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I forgot to mention that Dune part 1 and 2 is translated into norwegian. But no other books. I read through HH in english and have started on Messiah now.