Happy Birthday, Frank Herbert and R. L. Stine

[filkertom]

Herbert in 1920, Stine in 1943.

Any favorite works by either? I admit to being completely unfamiliar with Stine's work; just never got around to 'em. I also admit to not being a fan of the Dune series. The first book of the series, though, I must have read fifty times, and I've completely destroyed two paperback copies from wearing them out.

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[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

The first Herbert book I read was God-Emperor of Dune - our local library had one Herbert book, and someone picked that one! Still, it gave me enough knowledge of the world to be able to actually understand the Alan Smithee Dune movie when it came out. Which then inspired me to go read Dune (which I was kind of turned off of after reading God-Emperor) and I was blown away. I still haven't read any of the other books in the series, either his or his son's.

I've never read any R.L. Stine, but my 11-year-old son has read a bunch of them and liked them. Stine and Rowling are his two favorite fiction authors (not that he's a big fiction reader - last time we went to the library, his books of choice were two chemistry books; the time before that, it was refrigeration technology).