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Strange QuarkHow should I read the #Dune series?
Kevin Neely 
@strangequark option 3
retech@strangequark Option 4. Not sure who said it ends in a cliff hanger. It ends with the idea there is more story, but that is clearly going to be a (redacted for spoiler). Personally, I think Chapterhouse is better than Messiah and Children.
In the end, writing, music, painting, sculpting, food, whatever the art form, choose what you like. Anyone gatkeeping someone elses art is just an ass.
@retech OK now I have to do a #poll.
How much of the #Dune saga have you read? (Poll only allows 4 options so if you chose Option 5 or something else leave a comment).
| Option 1: The Sampler | |
| Option 2: Muad'Dib's Story | |
| Option 3: The Golden Path | |
| Option 4: I Love Frank Herbert |
Poll ends at .
Meznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWER@strangequark @retech I also read the shitty prequels, many of them anyway, and hated myself but I had to, just had to, I have a personality disorder
@Meznor @strangequark Brian is not a good writer, neither is his co-writer. 1 page into it should tell enough.
@strangequark Why not just start and end when you feel like it? I'm just a random person typing on the net. There is no reason to care what any of us says. More importantly, our POVs have nothing to do with yours.
It's like asking people what their favourite food is and then letting that data tell you what to eat. Horrid to think it was something that you were allergic to.
@retech I was not asking for advice, just curious what other people think.
I read all the Dune books many years ago, most of them multiple times and some I have re-read recently.
When the prequels came out, I started them. The House Atriedes/Harkonnen/Corrino ones were OK, in a nostalgic pulp-fiction kind of way, but the Butlerian Jihad was a truly awful piece of fan-fic. I went as far as starting the Machine War but I just couldn't. I abandoned it and tried to unsee what I had read.
@strangequark Ah, cool.
I got 4 pages in to the first Brian book, put it back on the shelf and left the bookstore. Too much pulp.
Joan CiberSheep (ell/això)
cs@strangequark Option 3, but God Emperor made me wish I had stuck with Option2. 😄
Lydia Conwell@strangequark Children of Dune is alright. It's better than Messiah. Messiah is shit.
sonja
IƧΛΛC aka isaac@emily_rugburn @strangequark I gotta give this a closer read but I anticipate a good laugh 😂
@emily_rugburn damn you! I thought i had enough of Dune and now i want to read God Emperor 😂😂😂
@isaactly_s ah 🤭 i just thought the bottom part with "you have no respect for frank herbert" with a giant list of brian herbert's books um...really funny.
the only reason i read all of them in succession is because i tend to lose momentum and forget what happened in the story 🤷 i still would take a break. theyre a lot.
@emily_rugburn yes, the bottom part is hilarious 😆
Did you really read all of them? 😳 Wow
Did you really read all of them? 😳 Wow
@isaactly_s i read up to the last book...i started it, got to the "space jews" part and said, nope, not doing this and put the book down. that was like a decade ago.
Todd@strangequark I'm a completionist, so #5 :/
Read some of the OG once upon a time, now doing chronological.
Margret Kuarell@strangequark rape joke....funny...
Nosaj 
I also have a "Twin Trilogies" classification although it's definition is quite a bit more hazy.
Personally I read Frank's originals, then read the first of the Brian/Kevin prequels and noped out.