re: With GoT winding down, pick a source work that you'd like to see get the HBO treatment.

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It's Frank dying and Brian Herbert bringing in Kevin J Anderson that kills the last 3 of the real books.

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Oh everything past 6 has an asterisk next to it. I am glad they wrapped it up using Frank's notes in a lockbox, but the writing quality from Frank Herbert to those two guys is like going from genius level to mediocre. I'm not aware of the last 3 you're speaking of. I knew of 7A and 7B. Was there one other?

Thank god Frank got out Chapterhouse before he passed, as it actually left the series in a serious cliffhanger, but also a cliffhanger that could have been left alone and ended there.

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I mean that God Emperor, Heretics and Chapterhouse are harmed by the existence of Brian letting Anderson exhume his dad's corpse and then have his way with it.

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God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse were all written by Frank...

Brian and Kevin wrote Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune.

Unless you're saying they took 4-6 and made 7, butchering it in the process?

I would think most Dune readers wouldn't consider Dune 7 to be canon. I know I sure don't.

They randomly signed some copies of Hunters of Dune apparently, and I scooped one accidentally in the BR Barnes and Noble. None of the others were signed when I saw the sigs flipping through pages in the store, so was a cool, fortuitous little find (picking up that particular book). Doesn't mean much to me other than it's really cool to have Frank Herbert's offspring sign a book continuing his legacy.

I just read that His Dark Materials is getting a proper do-over, so I'll stick with Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, since Good Omens is next.

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