Hmm... I lost nested quotes... so apologies for the hatchet job here. Note: all smileys will be held until the end.
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Another thread I can say Wheel of Time in 
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I've made it through all of them thus far. I'm jus debating whether to do a re-read of the earlier books before attempting the completion. |
And here's the good news... You
have time to decide!
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EatingPie:
I believe Dune Messiah inspired Robert Jordan. Two million pages on walking into a throne room, when the book itself is only two hundred pages!
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Dune Messiah wasn't that bad, but it doesn't really stand alone.
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Man, you obviously haven't read it in a while and need to read it again...
Oh, wait, nevermind!
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Anyway, the badness of Dune Messiah has obviously been mis-ascribed. It was a terrible book, plain and simple... nothing at all to do with it being a middle-of-the-trilogy (infinite-ology). See Empire Strikes Back as proof that that's no excuse.
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Since I don't think Star Wars has aged well, and I consider some parts execrable (like The Phantom Menace), I'll avoid using that as a comparison.
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Ah,
Empire Strikes Back is the best in the series. Of course, Lucas didn't write the script, nor did he direct it... funny how that worked out.
I could also cite
The Two Towers as a good second -- the book, NOT the movie!
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Have you read Herbert's _Under Pressure_? (Also published as The Dragon in the Sea.) Herbert has written other things besides Dune.
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Dune is certainly Herbert's magnum opus, but it's far from all he wrote.
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Oh, I was very well aware of Herbert's other work. It's just that the Dunes went so horribly, horribly wrong, I could never bring myself to trust Herbert with the written word again.
And if anyone thinks I'm ever picking up a non-Wheel Of Time Jordan book, I would say, for similar reasons, they're absolutely nuts!
-Pie