Thanks, I’ll put that on my reading list. Nice to see another Herbert fan around here!

I am a HUGE Herbert fan! I’ve probably read the Dune series about a hundred times. My favorite, of course, is book one.

If you want to read something of his that is completely different – but still pretty good – pick up “The White Plague” published in 1982.

Yep, I assume that if I red the books at 16 I would probably find them boring too. I highly recommend re-reading at least the first one for the socio-political and religious tangents that would probably be hard to appreciate at 16.

Also, reading Dune was really similar to reading Tolkien – it was the source – the work that everyone was ripping off. This is the stuff that George Lucas was reading when he dreamt up Star Wars (and don’t say you don’t see correlation – desert planet, galactic empire, ancient prophecy etc..).

Dune is the sole reason why every desert planet in every universe has giant sand worms.

I read all Dune books when I was 16 or so and I found them mostly boring, apart from the 1st and the 3rd which were only slightly boring. The films left out most of what makes up the story, so that was terrible, too, but in a different way. I stopped watching the german TV adaption (3 parts) after the first part, and my wife didn’t even understand a thing until I started explaining.