So, I'm reading "Dune", and it's okay. Not terrible. Not great.

[Yavin4]

It doesn't blow me away.

[soothsayer]

1. Dune is a dandy

[uppityperson]

2. At the time, it was something. Now, a bit dated but still good.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Dune is dense, and can be a hard read

It can also be terribly depressing as there are few genuinely moral characters in the story, kind of like politics. Two thing impressed me about the novel: 1) the Bene Gesserit mantra against fear (“Fear is the mindkiller...”) is absolutely true, and profound. 2) Unintentionally, but eerily, it is a very accurate of US foreign policy in the Middle East since the 1950s. Substitute oil for melange, and look at the Great Houses as the oil companies, CHOAM as OPEC, and the US is Shadam IV. The Fremen are the various insurgent and terrorist groups that rose up to fight exploitation of their countries.

Avoid the sequels, they are, in my opinion, painfully boring.

[drray23]

4. Sacrilege!

Frank Herbert's dune is an iconic book. Its a masterpiece of science fiction work. I will say that as the sequels went on, it did not feel as captivating as the first one. I remember reading the dune books as a kid . I have read them in French and English. I might read them in Spanish too as I am learning it.

The Tolkien books also had this iconic status and it also did not grab everybody. Some found it incredible, some not so much.

[Ocelot II]

5. I read it years ago and liked it a lot.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It's one of those "Great Works" everyone talks about, but not so many...

actually read.

Good on you if you finish it. I got halfway through it years ago

[Yavin4]

7. I'm little more than half way through

It's not terrible. It's just not mind blowing.

[rickyhall]

8. I read it back when I read long books Dune, Foundation, Shogun, The Stand

Now it's taken me almost a year to not finish Dracula.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. I read this book a very long time ago

I really liked it

[royable]

10. I was very struck by Dune when I first read it as a young teenager.

I'd read lots of science fiction but had not yet encountered anything that got into politics and world-building the way Dune did.

[Midnight Writer]

11. I liked Dune a lot but I liked Foundation better.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. For what my opinion is worth, Dune

is not worth bothering with.

Ok, I know my opinion is not in the mainstream but bear with me here.

Dune is vastly overrated. Okay, so I haven't actually read it, so perhaps my opinion doesn't really matter. But really, once you step outside the kow-towing of the Dune mythology, get a grip. Everything I have ever read about it leaves me cold. There are a lot better books to read. Trust me. Dune and its many stupid sequels are not in the category of worth reading. Trust me. Oh, feel free to PM me on this topic.

[captain queeg]

13. First one was good. Sequels not so much.

[uriel1972]

14. A tad orientalist, I thought.

[roscoeroscoe]

15. Thanks for sharing!

Matter of taste. What's on your top ten list?

[Paladin]

16. Isn't it time for another "Dune" movie?

What's the current total, 46 "Dune" flicks, or thereabouts?

[hunter]

17. It was a big "meh" for me as well.

I first read it as a teenager and it didn't have much of an impact on me.

Thinking I'd missed something I read it again many years later and still don't get it.

I feel much the same about Lord of the Rings.

Philip K. Dick created much more plausible worlds, worlds very similar to this one.

Dune and Lord of the Rings are lies, just as our history books are lies.

Reality and good fictional realities are slippery things.

[Laelth]

19. "Dune" gets great around book 3, "God Emperor of Dune."

After that, I couldn’t put it down, and I was severely disappointed when the story ended after its 6th book.

Realize that a lot of fantasy/sci-fi derives from Frank Herbert’s Dune. There are a number of sci-fi/fantasy authors (ahem, Robert Jordan) who wouldn’t have careers if they weren’t regularly ripping off Dune.

-Laelth