Why You Should Read Frank Herbert's Dune...And It's Sequels

Giving the ‘Dune Beyond Frank Herbert’ chapter V3’s soundtrack was [chef’s kiss]

The algorithm owes you more. You're doing great in terms of putting your perspectives and ideas out there and the production is just fantastic.

Your videos are great. After watching Denis adaptation and seeing this video I am definitely planning on reading these books in the future.

Excellent video!

I'm mostly heard about this series from another unrelated podcast Watching this video made me more interested in either the new movie or audiobooks

This was an awesome video again. I've read Dune few months before the new movie and it became one of my favourite novel ever. After that i really didn't like the Messiah story, but also bought the Children of Dune already, so probably will read that one as well. Overall, this was great video to know,what should i expect :)

The books are ridiculously thought out love them

I only recently found your channel and like what I have watched so far. I used to read more but recently got into Audiobooks during lockdown. I've listened to the original Dune and like you the House Atredies. It might have been a better read than listen, but I wasn't a fan. It had nice concepts but Brian and Kevin J. A. don't have the class of Frank Herbert. I will say this though and people will probably say how I am misinterpreting this. What I didn't like was the repetitive nature of laying down ground rules then immediately breaking them, also the MacGuffin nature of spice. Instead of having one vital use, It is so ubiquitous and does anything you want it to do.

Everyone has a way of making me read more Dune, but goddamn, Heretics for me right now is just a bad book. Idk when or if it's supposed to get good. I know the big major plot point of the book already that basically gives book 6 its name, and I honestly don't think I care anymore. Yeah, you get the thousands of years of history, but it's NOWHERE NEAR as convincing as the worldbuilding and agency of the original book. Honestly, you're probably better off consuming Heretics of Dune from a bunch of video essays that are better at telling the story. (also, it kinda bothers me that Frank Herbert borrowed chairdogs from his Consentiency Universe (Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment)). However... I am one of those people that thinks you should read Dune Messiah. Dune is how the universe fell into the hands of a Messiah, and Dune Messiah is what happened after it fell into his hands. That part works for me, and it's a fitting enough Part 4 to the 3-part original Dune. The rest of the sequels, however, even God Emperor of Dune (which I mostly enjoyed), can go fuck themselves. Children of Dune starts out so good. But like, the more I read it, the more abstract it all becomes. Maybe I'm a bad reader, but I seem to recall the sandworm transformation being described 100% abstractly. The really really long drug trip in the sietch that is supposed to be like the bees knees for Dune fans is really just impossible to follow. This I do know. Of any sections in Dune that I have reread the most, it's that multi-chapter trip scene... and it makes no fucking sense the whole way through. Seriously, reread that and try to make sense of it. My best guess of a copout answer is that Leto just saw a future where he turned into a sandworm and figured he could just do that. He probably didn't understand anything about the processes of doing so. He just aligned himself to the golden path. I guess it's not the worst answer, but it does kinda suck a little, and that's more or less how I feel about the rest of the sequels. They kinda suck a little.