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So I just picked this up

I'm a couple chapters in, and it's pretty confusing so far, there are so many terms I don't know, and I have to keep flipping to the dictionary in the back of the book. It's very interesting though, and I want to see what happens next.

Is the Dune series any good? What about just the first book?

>> No.4364575

The Dune series is great so long as it's the ones written by Frank Herbert. You should skip the rest.

>> No.4364582

>>4364575
That's what I was planning on doing. I heard the other ones were pretty bad.

Now I feel kind of sad though, it was his son who continued the saga right? I bet he feels terrible that he couldn't live up to his father's legacy

>> No.4364583

read the second and third books if you like
dont bother after that
never touch the stuff his son and kevin j anderson have written, they are unclean

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4364584

>>4364582
>I bet he feels terrible that he couldn't live up to his father's legacy

I hadn't thought of it this way before...

>> No.4364585

Only read the first book.

>> No.4364586

>>4364583
I want to read God Emperor of Dune.

It's just such a cool name

>> No.4364604

>>4364586
Read the first three, if you like how the third one ends then go for it.

I think God Emperor of Dune is where Herbert lost a lot of people. He started getting sloppy at this point in order to keep cranking out best sellers and didn't really expand on what made the first three good.

>> No.4364623

>>4364604
What is good about the first three? Why are they so popular?

>> No.4364664

>>4364623
They're just really good sci-fi. Dune is pretty hard to beat if you like Psychology, Politics, and space Muslims.

The 4th book is really strange, it doesn't pick up until the end. Most people don't make it to books 5 and 6 are much better.

>> No.4364738

I don't really like any of the books, and I'm not really in love with either of the films, yet I remain, for whatever reason, a big fan of the whole Dune "thing."

>> No.4364754

>>4364567
There's a glossary in the back.

>> No.4364771

I have had Toynbee and Spengler up my ass for a decade so discovering Dune was fucking incredible. It's like they're making out.

>> No.4365096

Yeah, he's crying into bags of money nightly.

>> No.4365212

>>4364567
I remember being a little confused in the first chapters of the book as well, specifically who exactly all the different factions were and what their roles were in the story. By the second half of the book you should be accustomed to everything going on, terms and factions and whatnot.

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>>4364567
at least the invented words are kind of rare. reading A Clockwork Orange almost requires you to learn Russian.


pic fucking related

>> No.4365239

>>4364738
Well, as with Tolkien, the creation of the setting to an extent stands beyond the characters/plot/prose. It doesn't need to be a great novel to appreciate the cool ideas.

>> No.4366021

>>4364567
Stick with it, the first few chapters are fairly gruelling. It gets easier. The prose style doesn't get any looser or more forgiving, but familiarity creeps in.

>> No.4367275

>>4365212
Yeah, that's very confusing. Who the fuck is the space guild? The great houses? And what does the emperor do? Fuuuuck

>> No.4367299

>>4365217
>tfw you know teh Ruskie and enjoy the living hell out of this book

Thanks, bolshy bog.

>> No.4367302

>that scene when blind Paul is murdered by a fucking monk or something
I cried

>> No.4367305

>>4364567
Dune is my favourite novel bar non, I'm certain you'll enjoy it, the next one is also very good.

>> No.4367309

>>4367302
Awww fuck you!

>> No.4367325

>>4367299
i had a minor brain orgasm when i worked out teenagers = nadsats = na desyat = "after ten".

>> No.4368002

>>4367275
It's in the glossary but gets explained in the book as well.