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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Hatter" data-source="post: 1857694" data-attributes="member: 23731">To the first statement, he would have stopped.  And to the second statement, I am wary of the last book because it is said that Herbert lived by one of the tenets that he wrote that Muad'Dib taught, which was the attitude of the knife:  Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife -- chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.""Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDune I think Chapterhouse should be the last and no more, which is why I'll probably never read the prequels.  Besides if you read some of the accounts of his personal life, it makes perfect sense.I would like to add that I loved all those books.  It's a great work of philosophy and intrigue.  It's what high sci-fi should be like imho.</blockquote>