Just started reading this after reading and loving The Death

>>7439975
Maybe.

It has big ideas about the nature of humanity and our place in the cosmos as well as being a damn good political drama. The characters are all so very self-aware, almost neurotic yet there still manages to be surprises. It has central arc of a hero myth throughout the book that ties everything together nicely. But my favourite thing about Dune is that it's a good primer for the 2nd book, Dune: Messiah, which is my favourite in the series. It's completely different and I regard more of a character study. In fact, I think I'm going to read it again now.

Are you new to Sci-Fi? It's the greatest Sci-Fi ever written but I can understand if it's unpalatable to people who read Dostoyevsky and academic /lit/ instead.

You can go fuck yourself if you're a fantasy pleb though.

>>7439995
I'm new to almost everything, just started reading seriously few months ago and i read some Tolstoi novellas , some camus, 1984, and a few other terrible books.

This is my first Sci-fi and so far is boring me to death. Just wanted to know if i should continue wasting my time with it or just drop it.

>>7440065
Try reading Childhood's End if you haven't read any SF before.

>>7440094
Yea that is way rad.

>>7440065
read some Philip K Dick

>>7440065
Hell, read Martian Chronicles from Bradbury, it's not precisely sci-fi but I love it.

>>7439975
Personally, I find it a bit dry.

>>7441155
>laughingfremen.hologram

>he didn't Wolf with the Wolfe first

>>7439975
The first time I read it, I was horribly bored and confused by everything. By the third read through, though, I actually understood what was happening, and could see the way the story fit together a lot better, which made the whole experience much more enjoyable.

>>7439995
Fantasy is nice

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>>7439975

If you like genre fiction and world building and can appreciate that it was influential, it's great.

If you care a modicum about decent writing, it's shit.

This goes for most scifi.

I thought it was awful. I think if you're accustomed to proper literature like Tolstoy then this type of thing has nothing to offer you.

>>7441682
>. I think if you're accustomed to proper literature like Tolstoy then this type of thing has nothing to offer you

Thank you, i think i will drop it then, i have Hadji Murad in my backlog too,

>>7440253
I just bought it b/c I like the majical cloudz song and the plot seems tight
What am I in for?

>>7441656
Absolutely this.

>>7440065
The story does get more interesting. But IIRC the writing doesn't get any better.

>>7442821
IIRC, great ideas and mediocre writing. >>7441656 is not lying about sci-fi.

>>7439975
It doesn't get good until almost halfway through, keep reading it

>>7442878
>>7439975
plebs

>>7442852
the worsat type of plebs, self-assured when they have no right to be

>>7442924
>muh literary fiction