About to read dune, what should I expect.

Something which still won't satiate your desire for love, no matter how good it is

Puffed up genreshit.

Worms.

>>8385332
This, Star Wars and Space Muslims basically.

>>8385320
Thirsty ppl

>>8385341
sounds pretty good

Depends on your age. I read it first when I was in highschool, and it impacted my vision of reality. It has a good plot and it's original, easy to read, you don't have anything to loose. Don't read the sequels for god's sake, or the prequels, stick to the original 1 through 5. "God emperor" is incredible, stop there and you got the perfect Dune saga.

Sand

an about is a very dangerous thing OP

>>8385332
go to bed atwood
>>8385341
it was written 12 years before star wars you moron!
>>8385371
you shouldn't read past the third book. Let it end there.

>>8385401
Dune 5 is really important in the series, you could ditch the fourth but reading the fifth is not negotiable.

>>8385332
this man is a spider do not listen to him

Shit prose and shit characters.

>>8385320
for maximum comfy listen to the audiobook. It has ambient sounds throughout and multiple voice actors

>>8385414
jesus christ

>>8385320
Quran but with cool space stuff and big worms

>>8385371
>>8385401
>>8385408
Once again this place summons up the retards of the internet. You idiots need to drop dead.

Dune 1-3 can be read as a cycle, but 4 is the culmination of the saga.

no characterization

>>8385495
yeah honestly read the entire series you retards. the way the last book ends you will want to smash something, just fucking throw a chair through a window, knock out your mom, kick a cat in the face. go find Franks sun and fucking wring his neck. slap him about and scream "HOW THE FUCK DOES IT END! WHO THE FUCK WAS THE ELDERLY COUPLE. WHERE THE FUCK WAS THE SHIP GOING. GIVE ME YOUR DAD'S NOTES YOU STUPID FUCK OR I'LL KILL YOU!"

the last book is great but it's a mad cliffhanger and then he die. no more book. fuuuiiiicxxxkkkkkk

>>8385621
*son lool

>>8385421
It's a fair point. I remember the prose being distractingly bad, and I was about 14 when I read it and didn't exactly have high standards.

i was super hyped for this book, "the thinking man's genre fiction!" also about big cool worms and psychedelic drugs, how bad could it be?

welp, it sucks. it's generic military fantasy/palace intrigue with - even if it is the originator - no ideas you haven't seen a hundred times before. waste of some good worldbuilding.

would you believe the main plot is an upper class white man who integrates with the tribal natives to fight a rebellion against the much better equipped techno-capitalist baddies the baron harkonen (who is literally a big fat guy in a villain chair)

YAWN, save your time and don't read it

>>8385320
The entire saga changed who I am as a person.

>>8385320

A very dry read

>>>/r/books

>>8385320
>8385320
The ultimate science fiction novel

>>8386777
>implying that is Women and Men.
It's shit like you that needs to go in the garbage.
nice numbers though.

>>8385320
The book of sand.

>>8386789
Why is everyone here so hostile?

>>8386811
Because this is a place for patricians to discuss works of art. Shit heads come in here conflating art with Fifty Shades of Grey-tier garbage and ruin everyone's day.

>>8386463
>I am an insufferable faggot
The post

>>8386815
Maybe you've got shit taste if you're comparing dune to fifty shades

>>8386822
If you're saying Dune is anything but Fifty Shades tier shit writing and shallow nerd bait, then you absolutely have shit taste, friend.

>>8386830
Whatever you say patrician. Lmfao

>>8386762
Surprised it took that long tbph

Fantastic, discusses messiah religions very well.

>>8386853
Don't lie to the boy.
Anyone who's read more than kiddy books in his life can see how obviously hamfisted the whole messiah message was. It's like he decided halfway through to make the book have a message, and completely failed.

>>8386861
>halfway

It was apparent halfway through the 1st chapter for me, and I wasn't even spoiled on it.

>>8386874
Yeah, you're a super smart guy, we get it.

>>8386881
So perhaps it's you who shouldn't be lying to the boy by pretending to be aware what the book was actually about. If it took you half of the book to realize the main theme then perhaps you shouldn't be talking about it.

>>8386891
It's literally stated somewhere around half the book. Then, I've actually read it and I assume you haven't given that you have no comprehension regarding the story pacing at all.

>>8386898
And it's subtly stated in the 1st chapter. I can understand that you think that the book doesn't have pacing, but it's because you weren't aware of what was going on until it was literally stated.

>>8385320

Disappointment.

Read the first two Hyperion books instead.

>>8386903
It's not, actually. Frank himself said it was while writing the book he saw Paul turning into a messianic figure and decided to turn the message into a cautionary tale. Which is why it's pretty much literally stated half way through the book. Pick up a copy, it's fucking terrible, but if you're going to talk about it you might as well know what you're talking about.

>>8386911
>Frank himself said it was while writing the book he saw Paul turning into a messianic figure and decided to turn the message into a cautionary tale.

Source? If this is the case, he went back and reedited things because this doesn't even make sense with the amount of clues that are lying around from the start.

>>8386463
Get a load of this hipster fuck.

>>8386463
Have you tried Gene Wolfe ? I haven't read it yet, but from what I've heard it's the closest you'll get to "the thinking man's genre fiction." Also :
>waste of some good worldbuilding
This seems paradoxical, as the act of worldbuilding is itself a waste of time and effort.

>>8385414
i really wish we could drag you up onto the stage out of your adolescent anonymity and force you to explain exactly why you think the prose and characters are 'shit'. and then force you to try to do better. then throw excrement at you when you can't.

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>>8385425
you mean the OC bible, right?

>>8386811
>Why is everyone here so hostile?

because it is safer to shit on something than it is to defend why you like it. this explains 95% of the shitposting on 4chan.

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No one mentioned how the whole series is the aftermath of The Matrix in space? And humans barely won?