My father gave me Dune to read at about age 14 or so. It's one of the reasons I fell in love with science fiction.

I read the first 5. At least as good as the Foundation Series.

Love the originals and like the sequels and preguels . I agree that Brian Herbert ones aren't written so well but the story still kept me interested

I read God Emperor for a book report in High School. I wound up reading all of them (the 6th wasn't even out when I started), and for a good many years, I read them annually. There's too much in the books to make for interesting movies and television, they just don't translate well (maybe if HBO took it on as in Game of Thrones it could be done). The work done after his death may be based on Frank's notes, but it certainly didn't satisfy the way his own works did.

I read most of them back I the early 80's . I was a big fan of them at the time. The mini series on the SYFY channel was better than the 1984 movie.

I haven't read them which is surprising as I am a huge sf fan but your description really has me intrigued. Thank you for the recommendation! ~Katie

I need to try them.
I am a huge sci-fi/ fantasy fan, but saw the movie when I was 14 or so, before I had gotten into reading.

The movie sucked so bad I have shied away from the books. All my friends love them and keep telling me I need to try them. Maybe some day. LoL

Awesome books!!!

Yes a long time fan of Herbert and as you say the Bene Gesserit (Latin for "Sucess to come" it's also a latin anagram pun for great Tigress) and their long game statergy is genius writing.

I read the series some time ago and loved it. I like the film as well.

I tried several times to read the series but the writing style annoyed me too much.

I agree, is one of my all time sci fi series. The son of dune didn’t quite meet the mark for me either.

One of my favorite series as well

I found the large spans of time to be difficult to identify with from the ongoing books but loved the first few.

I read Dune series years ago. I loved them, especially Dune.

No, I didn't...but I am reading "Origin" for my book club. Has anybody read this one? So far, I have read only four chapters but the Catholic religion's tentacles are already in motion,

That's funny because 30 minutes ago, I was talking to my son about Dune. He said he got about 40 pages into it and I said that's about 38 pages more than most folks. It came up because I saw a meme saying we thought we were heading towards a Star Trek future, but it seems to be heading more towards Dune with future wars being fought over resources. I saw Frank Herbert lecture in college and enjoyed his thoughts. Some of his other books were more accessible to me, not as dense as Dune.

Yes, nearly all of them, just a couple to go, might be out of sequence now but who gives a shit.....

And how can this be?

I read the original series years ago, and still have them on my bookshelf. Tried to read the prequels but gave up. I was sad that the movie was so horrible - I had to reassure people "read the books, they're amazing, don't let the film scare you away!" Might just have to start reading them again.

I've read all the Frank Herbery DUNE books. with the possible exception of Asimov, I would consider him to be my favorite science fiction writer. That said, when I went back to reread them, there was too much time spent on the religion of the story.
My favorite aspect of the BG was that they used science, along with their discliplinary practices, to make it appear that they were witches, casting spells and reading minds.

I read the main series as a young adult, I didn’t quite enjoy the movie but it was dealing with a lot. The prequels and sequels written by Franks son and Kevin Anderson did help to pull the universe of Frank Herbert together, even if their writing was different, but they were taken from Franks own Notes. The ideas of the religious societies that were built up were as alien to me as many of the beast and other characters in the books. It was the 70’s when I read them and even though I really wasn’t into religions at that time I really didn’t understand the entire change in complex societies due to religious doctrine , fervor, and extremism that Frank was showcasing

It was really annoying that George Lucas managed to get away with stealing so much of these books for Star wars that the film version had to practically invent a new subplot, to fill in the blanks and still got accused of "ripping off" Star wars.

I liked the first 3. The rest got very tiring and the ones written by his son, Brian, which are prequel novels seem very contrived.

I read Dune 42 years ago. It impressed me (and as a long-time sf fan already, of course I'd heard of it). But I never felt a desire to read other books in the series.

I don't think I appreciated at first (at age 15) what the book was saying about religion and manipulative forces within cultures.