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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
There is a new Dune coming out this year (movie). But the original book is one of the best science fiction books ever written!
There are a ton of sequels and they get progressively worse so stick with the original Dune.  |
The frank herbert sequels are actually really interesting, they go in a totally different direction than you'd expect based on the first novel and can be hard to get into on the first read (I certainly couldn't get into them at first) but herbert's prose and the complexity of his ideas...it's incredible.
And even though they're not what you'd expect they make sense in context. He wanted to subvert the "hero" archetype and argue how dangerous it is for humanity to rely on any kind of centralized messiah or god-type figure. In retrospect it doesn't seem like that was his original intention when writing Dune, but its pretty damn interesting nonetheless. Its the work of a genius.
Don't fuck with anything written by his son Brian Herbert. Cash-grab bullshit that reads like young-adult fiction.