Dune

Do I read all eight? Or just the ones by frank herbert?

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Just the first one, they all get progressively worse as the series goes on

The first 3 by F H

Defnitely skip the post-Frank ones

First three. And that's pushing it.

shit's autistic as fuck. (read the herbert ones if any at all).

apparently one of the villains has the same last name as me and now i want to read it

None. It's all talentless faggoty xenophile shit.

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Excellent book you've got there

One of the more useful /lit/ charts.

I recommend option 2. When I first read them I did option 4 and tried one of the Brian Herbert books too. It's really only the first two Frank that are much good, though Frank's other books are still far above the Brain books.

Just the ones by Frank. His son and that other guy ruin it if you read too far

The first two.

Definately read the first four. One of the few novels that really drew me in.

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I enjoyed Brian's books more than Frank's tbqh

Just the ones by Frank! When you're done, read Red Rising and Golden Son by Pierce Brown.

Option 4. I hated God Emperor on first reading but on a 2nd reading of the whole series it became my favourite book.

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>that bottom row

I had no idea.

The Brian Herbert series is so high school and comic bookish

I loved the fuck outta butlerian jihad and machine crusades when I was in high school. But they are unreadable because of their lack of nuance.

The dune and god emperor of dune are the most satisfying and stimulating as far as subtext and deeper themes.

Best part of the Brian kja series is Erasmus and his pseudo Dr. Josef Mengele tendencies

God Emperor is brilliant writing and really is the perfect ending to the series. The books after are neat enough but basically read like fanfiction.

First through fourth. 4-th is the best one.

lmao ur last name is pronounced fries

God Emperor of Dune is objectively the best one and should have been a good ending to the series.

I read Dune in high school in the 80's and I have re-read it about 3 times. l like it so much because it shows a world where human reach their highest potential - whether it be the Bene Gesserit, or the Mentats, or the Ixians. When you are young and looking at all the possibilities of your own life and the future, that shit is cash.

Now that I am older and feeble and not good at anything, I see how technology seems to strip Man of his potential. I wonder if alien civilizations see what we call progress as devolution. We are less of humans than we have ever been - weaker, fatter, stupider. We may live longer, and make cool gadgets, but how many of us can speak more than one language? How many of us can survive in nature? How many of us can control oure voices to influence and manipulate people? Greek and Roman rhetoricians used to do that. We don't even fucking try.

>high school and comic bookish
I have to agree with this user, though I've only read the first three. The first is ok I guess but I recall the second and third books being a whole lot of nothing happening covered in pretentious and cheesy dialogue. The series has an extremely profound and deep tone to it that I don't think is justified.

Unless I missed something.

Good chart thank yiu

He was referring to his son's books. And yes, too deep for you.

Anybody got some spice?

The second one is pretty good, actually.
The first one is the best, but; the way the second one is written, it almost seems like the first one is just the set-up. I think you get something out of seeing Paul in his new position and getting to know more about the spacing guild.

Read:

Dune, Messia, [SKIP CHILDREN], God Emperor

And then stop

I would say that the first two are required reading, and represent a self-contained story arc.

If you really like it, read the third and fourth books. They're pretty good, if weird, but the plot twist in the third book makes the ending of book two way less meaningful.

But don't go any further. The last couple of Dune books have almost nothing to do with the original and are of a much lower quality.

thread killer right here

children shows more about how the prescience works, although the plot is a bit retarded

Herbert was a brilliant writer. If you think he's talentless, English is probably not your first language.

literally about to finish dune now
i should read 1-4 yea?

I recommend reading the three Butlerian Jihad books by junior, then Dune and the following books by the elder Herbert.. then if you want you can read the juniors conclusion to the series

Just avoid the prequels to Dune that take place when Leto Attreides was a kid.. they have too many plot holes and contradictions with the Og Dune books

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>I recommend reading the three Butlerian Jihad books by junior

Brian you need to stop shilling your books here.

Read the Dosadi Experiment by FH if you find the idea of human evolution interesting.

He creates a world where humans have been bred for social intelligence and are basically quarantined because they are so predatory and persuasive that they are almost a biological weapon. Letting one loose on a planet would end with them as supreme ruler and they would then attempt to conquer more

Even the ones by Frank Herbert aren't worth reading after God Emporer.

If you want to see Dune and don't want to see the decline and fall of Dune, just read the first two books.

It ends with a wacky Zionist quest. I read them all during a period when I had read all the good sci-fi and hungered for more reading material. Like eating the shitty candy leftover after Halloween.

Just don't read anything and watch Jodorowsky's Dune.

Jodorowsky's Dune is only interesting as a portrait of how fucking retarded Jodorowsky is and what an awful movie his version would have been.