I first heard about Dune from a friend of mine in the mid early 1980s. He told me the plot and it seemed sort of cool yet sort of goofy. I was sort of curious about it and I thought about going to a bookstore to read a few pages and maybe buy it. But weeks passed and I didn’t do that and I soon forgot all about it.

A few years later I went to a movie theater to see the David Lynch adaptation. I hardly remember a damn thing about it. I only remember a few things strongly. The actor who played Harkonnen did a great job as an evil and creepy freak. He almost managed to distract me from how unintentionally comic Harkonnen’s flying around was. Sting’s costume reminded me of a diaper. When a character said the words “Duncan Idaho” I almost said out loud the words I was telling myself in my head - “Are you fucking kidding me?”