@kamen@bookwyrm.social Not a fan, eh? I haven't gone deep into Dune yet, but I understand it gets weird pretty fast.

@BEZORP@books.theunseen.city Oh, the horror... The horror! It's beyond bad. But don't let that confuse you - Frank Herbert's original six novels/doorstops are truly great, marvelously bizarre, mind-bogglingly weird. The problem is the Amazonian Rainforest-worth of shitty fanfic that his son Brian Herbert and one Kevin J. Anderson have been "writing" for the past couple of decades. That's terrible. Don't get anywhere near that.

Stick to Frank Herbert's canon, and enjoy all the drug-fueled space travel, huge phallic water-dodging sandworms, kinky BDSM intergalactic nun orders, space-age jihads and more traditionally incestuous aristocratic families that make those novels such a great read.