Julie G's Reviews > Dune

Didn't pick you as a Sci-Fi gal, Julie! You're full of surprises! Granted, you added this in 2011 😄 I really liked this one too. Seeing it in your favourites has reminded me I was meaning to pick up the second book very shortly! :)

Hi Jonathan,
I have always been more of a "fantasy" reader than sci-fi, but Dune is one of my all-time favorites. I ended up liking his son's books (the Legends of Dune series) almost as much as his original series. Have you read any of them yet?

Agree with that Julie. There was a lot that the younger Herbert brought to the saga

Julie wrote: "Hi Jonathan,
I have always been more of a "fantasy" reader than sci-fi, but Dune is one of my all-time favorites. I ended up liking his son's books (the Legends of Dune series) almost as much as hi..."

Yes, well I suppose Dune is more Fantasy than Sci-Fi in many ways. A kind of soft sci-fi or even speculative fiction. Anyway, genre's neither here nor there, it's a great story whichever way you look at it :)

I haven't read any of Mini Herbert's books and I hadn't intended to until just now, seeing it backed by both yourself and H. In any case, I've still got a long way to go with the main series, having only finished the first, so I'll see when the time comes whether I feel like continuing. I'll probably only finish books 2 and 3 this year.

I agree, H. I assumed they were going to be a bust, and I ended up reading all of them.

Jonathan,
I do think of Dune as science fiction, but, of course, you could argue that it is both sci fi and fantasy.

I only made it to book three of the original series, and then I found it so complex, I lost the pleasure of reading it. "Mini Herbert" was a genius, in my opinion, of making the story more relatable and less technical. Perhaps he sometimes struggled to understand his father as well?