Frank Herbert. I will admit that I only read the first Dune book, but I struggled to find good things to say about it. Characters are one dimensional, the story is not good and is largely dependent on literally everyone in the entire universe being absurdly stupid, but worst of all the worldbuilding which people say is top tier I found to be very very hit or miss. For instance there’s this very complex political structure which is very well done but at the same time mostly irrelevant because one faction holds the vast majority of the power and everyone else is just competing for scraps.
It’s quite possible that the later books correct most of the worldbuilding errors and make the characters and story interesting but the first book left me no reason to ever want to read the later books.
Frank Herbert. I will admit that I only read the first Dune book, but I struggled to find good things to say about it. Characters are one dimensional, the story is not good and is largely dependent on literally everyone in the entire universe being absurdly stupid, but worst of all the worldbuilding which people say is top tier I found to be very very hit or miss. For instance there’s this very complex political structure which is very well done but at the same time mostly irrelevant because one faction holds the vast majority of the power and everyone else is just competing for scraps.
It’s quite possible that the later books correct most of the worldbuilding errors and make the characters and story interesting but the first book left me no reason to ever want to read the later books.