What is the most true and honest tier list of these books? And why is Heretics the worst?
>>24793419Taking your question on its face as having honest intentions, I will respond by saying that it is, to an important extent, asking the wrong question and lacks sufficient resolutionI will nevertheless try to answer something of the spirit of the question1 is by far the best and the most deeply-researched, and it's not close. 1 is also the only book that can stand entirely and satisfyingly on its own4 is the second-best in terms of engagement with the text of the series itself and with other literature and ideas. In plot terms, in the adventure of being swept along by the narrative, it is on the other hand quite deficient. However, notably, 4 can be read even without 2 and 32 and 3 cannot reasonably be divorced from 15 and 6 have almost no intertextuality or research put into them and are much weaker for itTLDR:1 is easily the best2, 3, 4 can't clearly be rank-ordered; 4 is more literary than 2 and 3 but much less entertaining5, 6 are basically pulp fiction
>>24793419hanging out for a miniseries based on the Dosadi Experiment desu
>readable tierDune>embarrassing tier The rest
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>>24793484>thinks a textbook ad hominem is anything other than a self-own
>>24793419Dune = God Emperor > Messiah > Children > Heretics > Chapterhouse
>>24793444>>24793452You're all being too kind with five and six. They are just bad books, not even entertaining enough to be pulp. Even if Frank finished seven, it would still be a shit trilogy.
>>24793419By the end of the first you will think “this is a bad book”.By the end of the second you will think “this is a bad writer”.By the end of the third you will think “this is a bad person”.By the end of the fourth you will think “we must find a way to sterilize this individual’s entire bloodline”.Don’t read the fifth.
>>24793505The image was funny. That's why I linked it.
>>24793484>>24793452Brian Herbert was Frank’s punishment for disowning his other son, and that’s beautiful.
