>>21910935You really should read Dune if you haven't. The latest adaptations mainly focus on adapting the physical conflict that takes place. They don't really tell you WHY Paul is doing what he's doing, what really scares the shit out of him about "heading south to the Fundamentalists," or even really drives home the fact that Paul loses at the end of Dune and is perfectly aware that he's fucked.
It's a completely hollow victory for Paul and it doesn't really pay off until God Emperor of Dune, which they're never going to adapt because it's too fucking weird.
Frank Herbert isn't for everyone, but the guy had a lot to fucking say and the movies left out the best parts of his thoughts on free will, prescience, human nature, and the entire concept of a fucking racial memory (the actual term used in the book is "race memory," several times).
I would put Dune up against the Foundation trilogy as the science fiction equivalent to Lord of the Rings in terms of depth and hidden context (he was just as autistic as Tolkien, just not about languages).
