dune

Read Dune and Dune Messiah together, and then skip the rest and read God Emperor of Dune.

The Dune series is absolutely my favourite series ever and in my opinion the original is only a prelude to the real story.

I found Dune Messiah to be a slog through piles of brooding and pontification; Children of Dune was at least an improvement over that.

If you've already sloged through Dune Messiah and Children of Dune then you should consider giving God Emperor of Dune a chance because it's very different from the first two sequels.

I recommend, at minimum, Dune and Dune Messiah.

Some website a few years ago said that Lynch's Dune is great if you cut out all of the speaking parts.

The emperor god of dune still reads fine without remembering those two sequels perfectly.

> I found interesting how Dune influenced all these other blockbusters that came after, most importantly Star Wars.

Herbert said his whole point in writing Dune was to criticize the tendency of people to rely on Messianic figures for salvation, to show how our reliance on charismatic heroes and saviors can destroy us.

I believe all the books in the Dune series are valuable and even enjoyed the prequels since they gave a background to the story that was just lightly touched in the originals.

I prefer this to Lynch's film which has great costumes and design but you can't tell Dune in less than 2 hours, like one cannot tell lord of the rings in one movie.

It's been over 10 years since I read Dune and among the few things I remember is that I found it a painfully slow read full of details I wasn't interested in and words I couldn't bother to learn.

Even if Jodo's Dune was made, I doubt it would have gained international success and become a "Star Wars".

Because no one has solved this problem, we all live in dune-drifts of lousy passwords." No.

Currently reading Dune (I'm at 50%): I work a lot with Bayensian models and I keep seeing the way Paul Atreides can "feel" the future as a perfect implementation of Bayesian thinking.

A lot of people think Dune is a straightforward hero story, with Paul Atreides the "good" hero, but actually (edit: I should say, according to Herbert and taking into account the later novels) it is the story of the terrible damage a "hero" can cause to a culture and society.

Definitely worth it, but like Dune, it took me years of trying to get past page 100.

Yeah, Picq even made a music CD based on his music from Dune, and it's really good.

Frank Herbert really starts to get into his stride with the Emperor God of Dune.