How should I read the #Dune series?

[strangequark@dice.camp]

@retech OK now I have to do a #poll.

How much of the #Dune saga have you read? (Poll only allows 4 options so if you chose Option 5 or something else leave a comment).

[cibersheep@mastodont.cat]

@strangequark option 1

[cs@mastodon.sdf.org]

@strangequark Option 3, but God Emperor made me wish I had stuck with Option2.

[meznor@mstdn.social]

@strangequark @retech I also read the shitty prequels, many of them anyway, and hated myself but I had to, just had to, I have a personality disorder

[lydiaconwell@todon.nl]

@strangequark Children of Dune is alright. It's better than Messiah. Messiah is shit.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@strangequark @isaactly_s

[todd@social.lol]

@strangequark I'm a completionist, so #5

Read some of the OG once upon a time, now doing chronological.

[strangequark@dice.camp]

@retech I was not asking for advice, just curious what other people think.

I read all the Dune books many years ago, most of them multiple times and some I have re-read recently.

When the prequels came out, I started them. The House Atriedes/Harkonnen/Corrino ones were OK, in a nostalgic pulp-fiction kind of way, but the Butlerian Jihad was a truly awful piece of fan-fic. I went as far as starting the Machine War but I just couldn't. I abandoned it and tried to unsee what I had read.

[isaactly_s@mas.to]

@emily_rugburn @strangequark I gotta give this a closer read but I anticipate a good laugh

[greensofshade@mastodon.social]

@strangequark rape joke....funny...

[isaactly_s@mas.to]

@emily_rugburn damn you! I thought i had enough of Dune and now i want to read God Emperor