Despite all the hype around Dune, the fact is: The original book is very badly written. Confusing, actions of characters make no sense, unexplained myths, stupidity of items (those huge worms). It is rather fantasy, disguised as Sci-Fi. Too SF-laden for fantasy lovers, and too little science for hard SF-lovers like myself.
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Well that is good to hear actually because after trying so many times to get through it I was starting to wonder if something was wrong with me. I don't think I will ever get through it.
It is not worth it. The films are nice, mostly visually, but lack any sense or logic, too. E.g. soldiers fight with swords in a high-tech future? OMG.
the swords in the future was really annoying to me as well. They try to justify it with the force field suits but in the very next scene we see people get blown away even with their force-field suits so why ever use the swords?
Indeed, no logic - not even within the fictionious world, and that kills SF for me.