> In my experience, people who like Dune generally will enjoy at least through Children of Dune.
When I was very young and first found the Dune books, I liked Dune, but failed to finish Dune Messiah, let alone the rest. A few years later I re-read Dune, plus Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. I needed some maturing I suppose.
I stopped after that at the time because my parents only had the first 3 books, the book's front matter listed exactly those 3 books, and there was no internet yet to tell me there were 6 books instead of 3.
> Anyone who enjoys God Emperor of Dune is insane (maybe why it might be my favorite).
Some more years later I was browsing the sci-fi section of a bookstore and to my surprise found 3 more Dune books. Read them all, enjoyed them all, even God Emperor of Dune.
I read one or maybe two of the prequels; enough to decide that continuing reading the _other_ Dune books was not a good idea.
When I was very young and first found the Dune books, I liked Dune, but failed to finish Dune Messiah, let alone the rest. A few years later I re-read Dune, plus Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. I needed some maturing I suppose.
I stopped after that at the time because my parents only had the first 3 books, the book's front matter listed exactly those 3 books, and there was no internet yet to tell me there were 6 books instead of 3.
> Anyone who enjoys God Emperor of Dune is insane (maybe why it might be my favorite).
Some more years later I was browsing the sci-fi section of a bookstore and to my surprise found 3 more Dune books. Read them all, enjoyed them all, even God Emperor of Dune.
I read one or maybe two of the prequels; enough to decide that continuing reading the _other_ Dune books was not a good idea.