Dune Storybook (1984)

by Joan D. Vinge

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Joan D. Vinge's adaptation for children of David Lynch's screenplay from Frank Herbert's novel is an oversized hardcover with lots of lovely color stills from an abortion of a movie. Yes, David Lynch is brilliant; Dune (the novel) is brilliant; ergo, this should have been a great film. It wasn't, to say the least. And the adaptation here condenses Herbert's epic novel into less than 60 pages. But Kyle MacLachlan is still good looking... (

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Young Paul Atreides, son of a powerful family from the planet Caladan, may be the looked-for leader who will save the desert planet Dune, source of a precious spice which gives people strange mental powers.