Spukhäuser
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 ended 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.
aoanla@strangequark @retech I read all of Frank's books... and I did read a few of Brian/KJA's books (but maybe, like 2 or 3 at most, just to give them a chance, and I found the "final" one in a book store and flicked through to the end to see what they came up with) before deciding that, yes, Brian and KJA clearly never had any of Frank's notes and their understanding of his text was laughable.
(I actually do really like God Emperor, so.)
@aoanla @strangequark I have no idea why God Emp. gets shit on. I read it as a very young teen. Each time I put it down I'd have long periods of reflection. I still think of it as philosophically stirring. Somewhat jokingly I have said it put the final nail in the religion coffin for me. When I finished it I thought to myself: "...god is such a foolish thing we've made up...".
I think Chapterhouse has a lot of that introspection as well. Perhaps those two are on the bottom of the list for many diehard DUNE readers because of that.
@retech @strangequark I do think Chapterhouse is rougher - and clearly Frank is starting to include stuff "because he feels like it" rather than because it's narratively necessary - but, yes, I do think people sometimes are so busy pointing out all its flaws that they never mention the good, introspective, parts.
@aoanla Chapterhouse was written in a pretty tumultous time in his life. His wife died of cancer in 1984, he remarried, the David Lynch Dune film came out, then he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1985.
I read it a long time ago, but I re-read Heretics last year and mean to pick up Chapterhouse again.
@strangequark @aoanla I had the hardcover, in the inside he wrote a beautiful and tragic piece talking about writing the book while he took care of her. Gut wrenching.
No matter how anyone feels, I find the book fantastic.
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.
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.
Kiana 出击！@strangequark Option #0.5 is start reading the first book, put it down, pick it up again 6 month later, start over because you forgot what happened, repeat
Jens@strangequark I read the first one, and it already felt like climbing Everest barefoot and without oxygen — backwards.
I liked it, but I never had the stamina to keep going.
Amazing worldbuilding, but the prose just isn’t my thing.
I liked it, but I never had the stamina to keep going.
Amazing worldbuilding, but the prose just isn’t my thing.