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Originally Posted by JoelArnold
Finally read Frank Herbert's classic DUNE over the weekend. It's one I've wanted to read for a long time. I enjoyed it - I thought the world-building aspect of it was amazing. Has anyone read any of the rest of this series? And if so, did you like them?
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That depends what you mean by "the rest of the series". It's gotten a lot bigger since I gave up on it.
I think
Dune is a must-read classic and a great book. The next few,
Dune Messiah,
Children of Dune and
God Emperor of Dune, I think are still worth reading, but they aren't up to the standard of the first. (Too much explanation and not enough story, at times I found them quite hard work. But the world of Dune is a fascinating place, and books are good enough, that I was content to keep going.)
Heretics of Dune I enjoyed quite a lot - more story/action than the previous books, but it did seem to end quite abruptly.
Chapter House Dune starts well, but declines to a disappointing end - lots of interesting possibilities that never seem to go anywhere.
And that's about where I stopped. I have
House Atreides, by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert, on the shelf, but I don't remember much about it - it wasn't enough for me to go out and get the rest of the prelude.