I don’t think he’s Leeto II … No. He would never be that selfless, or even take an action considered selfless and improvement for anything but his freedom and bank account. Any sort of other impact would not have been considered in his decisions unless it changed his net worth or perhaps made lots of people adore him.
For those that don’t know you have to make it to book 4 of Dune for full explanation. Though explained in book 3 by the end, you see it properly in book 4. Not for everyone with a lot of philosophy in it.
Accidentally replied to the person who replied to you. Has my thoughts on favourites of the series, guess maybe light spoilers. If you enjoy some philosophy it’s a great book otherwise slow but still intrigue that others had plus possibly an origin of God Emperor or at least one where other stories have taken hints from.
It took me awhile to enjoy the last two books at least for me to say I enjoy them similarly even if not as much as the originals. I love the lore (which often gets forgotten or unheard if it’s one of those single sentance bits) and the philosophy so I kept listening to them in rotation. In the end they grew on me, but I personally prefer 1 and 4, I’m not even sure I could pick a 3rd the rest gave their ups and downs. Probably Children of Dune now that I think of it, the introduction of the twins has some better stuff than the rest to me.
Though in the last two there’s more interesting Bene Gesserit stuff as well as Tleilaxu, I was so hoping to read more on IX, I sort of think something would have come up there like secret research for human machine minds being worked on to make the scattering people fleeing and Duncan’s visions visions understood, well somewhat clearly.
Also I am not sure even reading our minds can really comprehend thousands of years between books 3-4 is 3500 years, 4-5 is another 1500 I think. Just trying to understand changes seems odd but thankfully that universe is more stagnet it seems but there are comments on it.
I just think the God Emperor kinda ended it. Nobody would ever go to the extremes Leto II did, and even if they tried, precognition would no longer be a thing. Humanity spreading out into the universe means there wouldn’t ever be a single emperor ruling over all of humanity ever again and thinking machines would never be able to kill all of humanity.
So all of the big things that made Dune what it is were all wrapped up in God Emperor. So to me, it was the ending of the Dune story.
I don’t think he’s Leeto II … No. He would never be that selfless, or even take an action considered selfless and improvement for anything but his freedom and bank account. Any sort of other impact would not have been considered in his decisions unless it changed his net worth or perhaps made lots of people adore him.
For those that don’t know you have to make it to book 4 of Dune for full explanation. Though explained in book 3 by the end, you see it properly in book 4. Not for everyone with a lot of philosophy in it.
Fuck. I need to get to book 4.
Accidentally replied to the person who replied to you. Has my thoughts on favourites of the series, guess maybe light spoilers. If you enjoy some philosophy it’s a great book otherwise slow but still intrigue that others had plus possibly an origin of God Emperor or at least one where other stories have taken hints from.
For me, God Emperor was a great ending for Dune.
Unfortunately there were two more books afterwards.
It took me awhile to enjoy the last two books at least for me to say I enjoy them similarly even if not as much as the originals. I love the lore (which often gets forgotten or unheard if it’s one of those single sentance bits) and the philosophy so I kept listening to them in rotation. In the end they grew on me, but I personally prefer 1 and 4, I’m not even sure I could pick a 3rd the rest gave their ups and downs. Probably Children of Dune now that I think of it, the introduction of the twins has some better stuff than the rest to me.
Though in the last two there’s more interesting Bene Gesserit stuff as well as Tleilaxu, I was so hoping to read more on IX, I sort of think something would have come up there like secret research for human machine minds being worked on to make the scattering people fleeing and Duncan’s visions visions understood, well somewhat clearly.
Also I am not sure even reading our minds can really comprehend thousands of years between books 3-4 is 3500 years, 4-5 is another 1500 I think. Just trying to understand changes seems odd but thankfully that universe is more stagnet it seems but there are comments on it.
I just think the God Emperor kinda ended it. Nobody would ever go to the extremes Leto II did, and even if they tried, precognition would no longer be a thing. Humanity spreading out into the universe means there wouldn’t ever be a single emperor ruling over all of humanity ever again and thinking machines would never be able to kill all of humanity.
So all of the big things that made Dune what it is were all wrapped up in God Emperor. So to me, it was the ending of the Dune story.
Please don’t. I’m sure they’re all good books even if they’re half as good as the writing of the previous three that I’ve read so far.