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< Reading Dune Is A Transcendent Experience
I am definitely the odd man out as I have read Dune three times and each time found it to be awful. Read a few of the sequels and know the whole story. Over all its quite good as a story. But the writing itself feels excessive. So little occurs in the first book and yet it feels like it drags on and on. I've read some wordy authors and I think the issue I have is that with Herbert it never lets up. There are scenes that don't require all the inner monologue, all the side comments to themselves. Some day I'll finish all the books because I just need to just do it, not that I really want to.
You're not the only one.