What is so good about Dune?

Ethics_gradient said:
There is something about the first Dune that is hard to describe. It feels as though this huge... thing is lurking between every word on every page. The first time I read it it felt as though I was reading something ancient Herbert had dug up from the desert. A myth hewn in stone. There’s nothing else quite like it in my opinion.

when somebody talks about it my blood pressure goes up in anticipation of them not ‘getting it’ andI do my best to change the subject. It’s meaning was meant for me and me alone and I’m jealous that anybody else gets to experience it.

not touched the other books, ever, despite owning them. I’m scared of them staining the perfect original.
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It's been called the sincere fiction equivalent to Lord of the Rings.
 
Vince W said:
Not a comparison Tolkien appreciated as he disliked Dune intensely.
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I think this is another thing that Professor Tolkien and would have a disagreement on. :)
 
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