Dune
If you look back over my blog, you'll notice that in late June and early July I read 12 books. This is a lot, even by my standards (and even considering that half of them were graphic novels). But within the first few pages of Frank Herbert's Dune , I knew I wanted to take my time with this book. It was clear that this book was dense and I'd need to slow down to really understand what was going on. This was driven home by the fact that I needed to reread the first 30 pages a few times before I felt like I had a good grasp of the characters and which ones were important. I'm really glad I took my time with this book. It was excellent, and I enjoyed spreading the experience of reading it out over several weeks. I'm not sure I'll read any of the sequels, but I do expect to come back to this one again. I loved that each conversation included the thoughts of the various participants. It painted a complete picture of who knew what and what they plann...