Going from book 3 to 4 is a fun and wild jump, although I don't recall reading much past 4 if at all. Might be time for a re-read, haven't read past book 2 since high school.
It's not as good, because Frank was getting on in years at that point and it doesn't have a payoff like the first three books had with God Emperor; he died before writing the final book, so it kind of builds up to nothing. To be honest I doubt this 7th book would have been nearly as good as God Emperor anyways, so maybe it's for the best this way.
as long as you don't read the books after he died, books 1-6, you're fine. Unless you can't stand unfinished stories, then pretend that the series ended with book 4, look no further or suffer
Yeah I got to the last chapter of book 8 and I was like, why the fuck am I doing this to myself and stopped reading halfway through 5he final climax lol
Unrelated but I have no where else to post about the dune thoughts that consume my mind:
I think it would have been so much cooler if Ganema was still around in book 4, not as a sandworm but the EXTREME end case of the bene gesserit ability to alter the metabolism to basically stop aging. Their dialogue with each other in dune 3 was awesome and is something lacking in 4, clear, distinct conversations not clouded by 106 layers of leto II fucking with whatever human gnat he was speaking to. I also think it would be a sick contrast, and allow exploration of another perspective of the bitterness of the passage of time, leto is bored and complains about a lot of stuff, but imagine ganema a withered skeletal wraith, like golum but way worse, her perspective would be so different, excited for death and freedom from the golden path probably, just like leto, but very different
how'd his head get so big i thought
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he was just like wrapped in a living biomechanical skin of baby sandworms
book 4 spoilers
that's Children of Dune, by God Emperor he's a full grown thousands-year-old worm with a giant human face
I think he kills one of his Duncan Idaho clones by rolling on him. weird book
oh wow that does get weird. i know warhammer 40k is basically a ripoff of dune and Micheal moorcock novels but thats seriously 40k levels of weirdness
The Dune books get weirder and weirder with each novel.
Going from book 3 to 4 is a fun and wild jump, although I don't recall reading much past 4 if at all. Might be time for a re-read, haven't read past book 2 since high school.
How is the series after book 4?
I mean it's trash but I read all that shit. About the same level as the shit his son wrote.
I wouldn't go that far. Heretics and Chapter-house are... not great, but they are nowhere near as bad as Kevin J Anderson's crap writing.
It's not as good, because Frank was getting on in years at that point and it doesn't have a payoff like the first three books had with God Emperor; he died before writing the final book, so it kind of builds up to nothing. To be honest I doubt this 7th book would have been nearly as good as God Emperor anyways, so maybe it's for the best this way.
my memory's that god emperor's where it started going off the rails tbh.
1-6 is good, after that the author died and his fool of a son ruined it
That was kind of the impression I got. I did briefly try to read one of his son's dune books and just couldn't get into it
Yeah it's very unfortunate. Instead of a whole universe of spinoff and fan interpretations etc etc, we have one trash official fanfic
Fuckin copyright
Really really bad.Maybe not really really bad... but if you stopped you'd be missing nothing.
as long as you don't read the books after he died, books 1-6, you're fine. Unless you can't stand unfinished stories, then pretend that the series ended with book 4, look no further or suffer
I've gotten through a chunk of them after the forth book and ... woof... I had to stop the self abuse.
Yeah I got to the last chapter of book 8 and I was like, why the fuck am I doing this to myself and stopped reading halfway through 5he final climax lol
book 4 spoilers
Unrelated but I have no where else to post about the dune thoughts that consume my mind:
I think it would have been so much cooler if Ganema was still around in book 4, not as a sandworm but the EXTREME end case of the bene gesserit ability to alter the metabolism to basically stop aging. Their dialogue with each other in dune 3 was awesome and is something lacking in 4, clear, distinct conversations not clouded by 106 layers of leto II fucking with whatever human gnat he was speaking to. I also think it would be a sick contrast, and allow exploration of another perspective of the bitterness of the passage of time, leto is bored and complains about a lot of stuff, but imagine ganema a withered skeletal wraith, like golum but way worse, her perspective would be so different, excited for death and freedom from the golden path probably, just like leto, but very different
That would have been neat
Oh, Living Biomechanical Skin of Baby Sandworms. It's a real shame LBSoBS broke up after their first album.