Quote Originally Posted by Illmaeran View Post
Dune is a seminal work of Science Fiction that has influenced many genres/sub-genres and artists since its writing. The overall premise is a coming-of-age story for a young man of a noble house in a galactic empire. Politics is an ever-present theme throughout the story (and entire series, really) with the first part of the book (the current movie) having the most of it front-and-center.

If you can keep yourself concentrated on it, I *highly* suggest reading it. It really is that good and is that important to Sci-Fi.
Oh physically reading a book isn't a concentration problem for me! It's more the physical strain on my poor old lady eyes, or just not having enough time to sit down and enjoy a good book in peace most days. It's audio that I have a concentration problem with (ADHD), so I tend to avoid audio books. Short stories work fine, but very lengthy novels just... blur, after a while.

But gods, that sounds like it's right up my alley. I honestly am not as big into the sci-fi genre as I am high/low fantasy, but all of that rolled into one really piques my interest. I'll give the movie a watch first, but I'll definitely see if I can find a copy at the local book stores (or the library) afterwards. I find doing stuff in that order makes me less disappointed if the movie adaptation cut stuff out or changed anything. xD