Should I just stop after the third book?

>>24617584 (OP)
Read 4 and 5 too.

>>24617585
Don't they take place a thousand years in the future, though?

>>24617587
Yes, but they're still worth a read. 4 is a bit dense though.

>>24617584 (OP)
You shouldn't read them in the first place.

>>24617589
I'll read them if they're good, but I heard they differ widely from the more conventional stories of the trilogy.
>>24617590
I heard it was the sci-fi equivalent of Lord of the Rings.

>>24617584 (OP)
read through 4
5 and 6 are much less literary and rarely rise above the level of pulp SF

Movie was better

>dune saga
>books 1-3
Anon, I ...

>>24617584 (OP)
Should've droped at the first

>>24617584 (OP)
Haven't read all of them myself but generally I see people saying you should stop after book 4, because books 5 and 6 were supposed to have a sequel and final book in the series but the author died before finishing it
also most people will say you shouldn't read the books written by Herbert's son

>>24617584 (OP)
There is no reason to read 3 besides having the required context to read 4, which is the best book in the series. 3 reads like retarded fanfiction, so if you dont care just stop at 2 which is a fitting epilogue to the original. There is no reason to read 5 and 6 under any circumstance, they are completely useless time vampires.

>>24617674
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>>24618716
I was under the impression that the first three books formed a trilogy (like LOTR or Foundation) because of this Simpsons comic.

>>24618736
forgot the pic

>>24618736
First two books finish the main characters story arc so you could just read those. Most people just read the third one in order to read the fourth one which many consider to be the best. The movie trilogy is only adapting the first two books.

>1 & 2
Main story of Paul
>3
Retarded set up
>4
schizo kino nonsense that sums up the entire saga, if you enjoy it it'll stick with you for life
>5 & 6
Unfinished sequel trilogy that adds nothing, a character unironically learns how to teleport behind people during fights and there's women with magical pussys

>>24618781
you forgot to mention the literal space jews

>>24618716
>read 4, which is the best book in the series
>500 pages of navel-gazing and aimless conversations

>>24619281
That's what makes it kino

>>24617584 (OP)
Read the ones by Frank Herbert, avoid all of the books written by his son.

>>24617584 (OP)
stop after the first

>>24617600
>I heard it was the sci-fi equivalent of Lord of the Rings
It really isn't. LOTR isn't a revenge story.

>>24617584 (OP)

True spiceheads read them backwards, starting from 6. to see the whole story laid out before them like plans upon plans.

4 is the magnum opus so it'd be foolish to stop before that

>>24621384
Based

>>24617584 (OP)
If you liked the third book then continue until the 5th.

>>24620998
This. Herbert has this unique prose that is enjoyable even when the story gets weird.

>>24617584 (OP)

>>24617584 (OP)
Not at all. In fact I consider the last two to be the best and the most "action packed" of the series
>>24617587
The thing with time skips in sci-fi books is that a character can always come back because he cloned himself or because he had a time machine or he's actually immortal like Lazarus Long.

>>24617600
They're very good. Not as good as the fans think they are but still very good. As far as books go they're more like Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" and Isaac Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation series than Lord of The Rings. It's very much influenced by new wave science fiction and Robert Grave's writings as well.

Brian Herbert > Frank Herbert.

>>24622594
>Not as good as the fans think they are
The first book is even better than people think it is
There's a crazy amount of stuff hidden in it that has yet to receive scholarly attention

>>24617584 (OP)
Science fiction is shit. I recommend Proust. However, if your aptitude for French leaves much to be desired, then I recommend Chaucer.

>>24617584 (OP)
No, the fourth one is the best.

>>24623201
I tried but his work is poorly written and seems to have some continuity issues with the original books.

>>24623201
Pffffftttt.... Thanks for the laugh anon.

>>24623244
I recommend suicide.

>>24617584 (OP)
looks like one of those fancy pressed hams that comes in a box

>>24617584 (OP)
Book 2 has a scene where the main character gets a boner as he describes in detail the naked body of his teenage sister
Absolute kino

>>24626288
>he describes in detail the naked body of his teenage sister
Nope, I think that was your imagination filling in the blanks.

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>>24626350
Still looking for those details of her naked body.
Was it the word "femaleness" that gave you such a boner?

>>24626408
No Sanjay, being contrarian and obnoxious does not mean you fit in with the rest of the board, and no I am not sifting through a dozen pages of the book to find the correct passage to satisfy your poor effort at being le cool and witty

>>24626249
kek

>>24626439
You seem easily upset. Is it your time of the month?

>>24626439
Not the anon but this occurs right after Duncan Idaho is gifted to Paul as a ghola by the Guild, specifically as a honeypot for him and his sister. She is using a training dummy while naked (turned up to difficulty 11, which it shouldnt go past 6) until Paul disables it, walking on on her with Stilgar (I believe?).
Paul does in fact react to the sexual appeal of his sister which is foreshadowed by the Bene Gesserit's scheme to potentially breed Paul with Alia for their breeding program. So yes, she is naked and Paul gets horny about it. He also comes back to the thought with his prescience.

The pages right before this describe her 16 year old nakedness, musculature, etc. She has a good body BC she has Bene Gesserit nerve control (before book 3, where the abomination arc reenters the story).

If you think that's weird wait until you read god emperor

>>24626439
How big are Alia's tits? What colour are her nipples? What shape is her arse? Is her pussy hairy? How long are her legs?
These are the details any male onlooker would notice, and there's no sign of any of them in the narrative.

>>24627808
Not beating the jeet allegations, saar

>>24627930
I don't think you know how to use that meme yet, anon.
Maybe lurk moar?

>>24617600
>sci-fi equivalent
Dune is fantasy with a very thin sci-fi coating on top.

>>24619281
Yes anon, GEOD is basically Frank Herbert giving up and just specifically stating his philosophy via Leto II since people kept misinterpreting the first three books. It's better viewed as a philosophical treatise with a narrative framing than a traditional novel.