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.
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.