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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5060736" data-attributes="member: 8863">I just got into the Dune books myself.&nbsp; The first book was pretty good.&nbsp; The second one was a bit weird, like Herbert was hitting the spice a bit heavy.&nbsp; Children was pretty good too.&nbsp; I have God Emperor on hold at the local library, so I'll probably be picking it up tomorrow.&nbsp; I didn't see Heretics or Chapterhouse anywhere in the catalog, so I'll probably stop at God Emperor.Too weird?&nbsp; Even the first one has wierdness, though it gets weirder in the next two books.&nbsp; I'm not sure I want to know just how wierd it gets.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Then again, some writers are easier for me to follow than others.&nbsp; I think it's something along the lines of how similar they writer thinks/thought compared to me.&nbsp; Herbert is mildly difficult to follow for me, still readable, but with some degree of backtracking; he uses a lot of foreshadowing I either miss or don't understand the symbolism or whatever.&nbsp; Maybe it doesn't help that the big religious angle doesn't really resonate with me, and the most I'm getting out of the series is that sandworms are cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I wasn't planning on doing that myself.&nbsp; I know how hacktastic Anderson can be from the Star Wars EU, and I've also seen Penny Arcade's rather grandma-unfriendly opinion of the books.&nbsp; Annoyingly though, the local library's Sci-Fi section is somewhat lacking.&nbsp; They have a nice collection of the pastiches, but not a single copy of the original book at the main library.&nbsp; I had to put a copy from one of the library system's other locations on hold.&nbsp; That's pretty much how their entire Sci-Fi catalog is.&nbsp; Many of the classics aren't in the stacks, and what they do have is recent stuff that maybe was on the NY Times bestsellers or something.&nbsp; An even worse case is with Asimov's Foundation series, which I also recently started reading.&nbsp; There's no copy of the second book anywhere in the catalog that I can find, just an audiobook.&nbsp; Yuck.&nbsp; I want read books, not listen to them.&nbsp; A book is a set of pages with printed texts on them between two covers, not a bunch of tapes or discs, or something being read on Kindle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 5060736, member: 8863"] I just got into the Dune books myself. The first book was pretty good. The second one was a bit weird, like Herbert was hitting the spice a bit heavy. Children was pretty good too. I have God Emperor on hold at the local library, so I'll probably be picking it up tomorrow. I didn't see Heretics or Chapterhouse anywhere in the catalog, so I'll probably stop at God Emperor. Too weird? Even the first one has wierdness, though it gets weirder in the next two books. I'm not sure I want to know just how wierd it gets. :p Then again, some writers are easier for me to follow than others. I think it's something along the lines of how similar they writer thinks/thought compared to me. Herbert is mildly difficult to follow for me, still readable, but with some degree of backtracking; he uses a lot of foreshadowing I either miss or don't understand the symbolism or whatever. Maybe it doesn't help that the big religious angle doesn't really resonate with me, and the most I'm getting out of the series is that sandworms are cool. :p I wasn't planning on doing that myself. I know how hacktastic Anderson can be from the Star Wars EU, and I've also seen Penny Arcade's rather grandma-unfriendly opinion of the books. Annoyingly though, the local library's Sci-Fi section is somewhat lacking. They have a nice collection of the pastiches, but not a single copy of the original book at the main library. I had to put a copy from one of the library system's other locations on hold. That's pretty much how their entire Sci-Fi catalog is. Many of the classics aren't in the stacks, and what they do have is recent stuff that maybe was on the NY Times bestsellers or something. An even worse case is with Asimov's Foundation series, which I also recently started reading. There's no copy of the second book anywhere in the catalog that I can find, just an audiobook. Yuck. I want [b]read[/b] books, not listen to them. A book is a set of pages with printed texts on them between two covers, not a bunch of tapes or discs, or something being read on Kindle. [/QUOTE]

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