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Originally Posted by Quoth
... Are the Dune books worth the effort after 1st four? ...
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Yes.
If you like that genre then it is very worthwhile. The story is definitely NOT brain candy and requires thought when reading. I have known some people that couldn't, or didn't want to expend the effort to, wrap their brain around the complex details...and that's understandable; there must be lazy people in the world to make the rest of us look good!
In
God Emperor a lot was talked about how Leto II was saving humanity from some
thing...but didn't get into too much detail about what that
thing was.
Heretics and
Chapterhouse start talking about when that thing starts to come back...then Frank died before he could finish the story. Frank's son, Brian, had Frank's notes and wanted to finish the story. Brian collaborated with Kevin Anderson and the decision was made that there needed to be a lot more of the back story explained before finishing the original story...ergo the prequels. The prequels were pretty successful. Then they (mostly) finished the story (or did they?) and they decided to follow up with more depth on the world's details...like: how were the Bene Gesserit/Mentats/Navigators created??
So far I have 29
Dune novels or short stories in my e-Library, but I haven't finished the last 4 yet:
Sands of Dune, Duke of Caladan, Lady of Caladan, and
Heir of Caladan(
forthcoming). That would be a total of 33....so definitely enough material to keep one interested.