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How difficult is Dune to read?
I understand that the question may be basic, but it is the clearest way to get across what I'm trying to figure out. I'm currently considering reading the first Dune (the original), but I don't have an understanding of how difficult it might be for myself.
What I want to do and what I think may help is to take the hardest and easiest books I've read from the same genre and determine where Dune fits between them. For me, those are 2001: A Space Odyssey and Neuromancer. 2001 is paced well enough for me to get through sizable portions without becoming tired and also very engaging with the entire space mystery aspect, only the last few chapters confuse me. I've read it twice already. Neuromancer is the opposite, it was "dense" and hard to follow without a guide that summarized what was happening in each chapter. It was kind of information overload with just how much detail there was and how confusing it felt trying to sift through to understand the plot. I have briefly read a handful of chapters from Dune before, though I decided to hold off on it until I felt like I was ready to handle it. That gave me the impression that Dune does sit somewhere in the middle between 2001 and Neuromancer, if not a little closer towards the latter's side of difficulty.
So, what I really feel is the question is: if you've read all three of these novels, where do you put Dune in terms of difficulty? And what made it more or less difficult for you to read?
#entertainment
I understand that the question may be basic, but it is the clearest way to get across what I'm trying to figure out. I'm currently considering reading the first Dune (the original), but I don't have an understanding of how difficult it might be for myself.
What I want to do and what I think may help is to take the hardest and easiest books I've read from the same genre and determine where Dune fits between them. For me, those are 2001: A Space Odyssey and Neuromancer. 2001 is paced well enough for me to get through sizable portions without becoming tired and also very engaging with the entire space mystery aspect, only the last few chapters confuse me. I've read it twice already. Neuromancer is the opposite, it was "dense" and hard to follow without a guide that summarized what was happening in each chapter. It was kind of information overload with just how much detail there was and how confusing it felt trying to sift through to understand the plot. I have briefly read a handful of chapters from Dune before, though I decided to hold off on it until I felt like I was ready to handle it. That gave me the impression that Dune does sit somewhere in the middle between 2001 and Neuromancer, if not a little closer towards the latter's side of difficulty.
So, what I really feel is the question is: if you've read all three of these novels, where do you put Dune in terms of difficulty? And what made it more or less difficult for you to read?
#entertainment
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