Post #1466594
2026-04-17 17:27 UTC
And then he asks grok to summarise and explain the book/series to him. Which made me horrified, but then I remembered I have never read the dune books, just read bits from wikis and seen the films.
Now I don't know what to feel. Oh right, there's several types of books that I can't fucking sit through because they are written like pretentious ass and deal with dense, dry topics, so I guess I wasn't going to sit through that shit with or without wikis and AIs.
I've read other books, and then read the fucking wikis. I guess for somethings and some contexts you just need the abridged version.
If you disagree, feel free to go read "Infinite Jest", "Godel Escher and Bach", and "Crime and Punishment", then get back to me on this topic.
I've read about half of one of those books. Feel free to guess.
Replies (2)
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@night_petal@piefed.social 2026-04-17 18:29
A summarization of the Dune series would be a novella by itself.
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@sobchak@programming.dev 2026-04-18 06:26
I thought Dune was good. I read it while I was in middle-school and thought it was engrossing. I also read a lot of Arthur C. Clarke back then, but I guess some people don't like his style. I tried reading Godel, Escher, Bach as a young adult, and yeah, I maybe finished half.