Going from book 3 to 4 is a fun and wild jump, although I don't recall reading much past 4 if at all. Might be time for a re-read, haven't read past book 2 since high school.

How is the series after book 4?

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's trash but I read all that shit. About the same level as the shit his son wrote.

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't go that far. Heretics and Chapter-house are... not great, but they are nowhere near as bad as Kevin J Anderson's crap writing.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not as good, because Frank was getting on in years at that point and it doesn't have a payoff like the first three books had with God Emperor; he died before writing the final book, so it kind of builds up to nothing. To be honest I doubt this 7th book would have been nearly as good as God Emperor anyways, so maybe it's for the best this way.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

my memory's that god emperor's where it started going off the rails tbh.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

1-6 is good, after that the author died and his fool of a son ruined it

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was kind of the impression I got. I did briefly try to read one of his son's dune books and just couldn't get into it

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah it's very unfortunate. Instead of a whole universe of spinoff and fan interpretations etc etc, we have one trash official fanfic

Fuckin copyright

[–] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~Really really bad.~~

Maybe not really really bad... but if you stopped you'd be missing nothing.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

as long as you don't read the books after he died, books 1-6, you're fine. Unless you can't stand unfinished stories, then pretend that the series ended with book 4, look no further or suffer

[–] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've gotten through a chunk of them after the forth book and ... woof... I had to stop the self abuse.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I got to the last chapter of book 8 and I was like, why the fuck am I doing this to myself and stopped reading halfway through 5he final climax lol

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

solidarity