I was 13 at the time, just about to leave prep school for private school (yep, those Assisted Places days!). One thing I loved about being at private school (and there weren't many) was the enforced 45-minute silence called Rest that occurred after lunch every day from 1pm to 1.45pm. You HAD to read silently, and it happened every day, Monday to Friday. I got through more sci-fi classics in Rest between the ages of 11-13 than at any other point in my life, and kick-started the discipline of reading for me.
1987. I was 14.
I read it two years ago when i was 26. I was living where I still do now, in Oxford.
It was 1989 still at school. I was 14.
I was little, and my parents rented it. I wasn't interested...until it started playing.
I came to it originally via the David Lynch version and then later the novels.
I was 17 in 1985 when I first became entranced.
I came across the book Dune after I saw the David Lynch movie of the same name when it was released in the 80s. I was shocked as to how different the movie is to the book and was puzzled by the ending of the movie where it rained! if it did in fact rain on Arrakis it would have killed the worms, and halted the production of Spice. I was very young when I read the book, about 15 or 16...
I can't remember exactly when I first read it, but I know it was during the '70s. My mother found the book in a second hand shop and bought it for me to fill up one of those incredibly long summer school holidays we used to have.
i was 16 and had just started work. the 21st book i purchased with my wages
I saw the film (yes, I know I'm just as sorry). After that I was forced to read the book by someone who was shocked at how much I thought it was rubbish.
1977.The place.Sheffield.Teenager.And the imaginary worlds glittered so bright and new and full of promise then.Now some are just treasured memories,others reduced to pixcelated junk on DVD.
fed up with whissy washy sci fi? at the age of 30 i picked up my first dune book this stuff is "hard core".
Around 1986. Living in Germany 28
I found this when I was at university in Leeds around 1968 when I was 20.
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