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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?
I mean it's trash but I read all that shit. About the same level as the shit his son wrote.
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.
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.
my memory's that god emperor's where it started going off the rails tbh.
1-6 is good, after that the author died and his fool of a son ruined it
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
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
~~Really really bad.~~
Maybe not really really bad... but if you stopped you'd be missing nothing.
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
I've gotten through a chunk of them after the forth book and ... woof... I had to stop the self abuse.
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