Same for me. I've always had a hard time reading sci-fi because of all that, especially everyone and everything having impossible to pronounce names. I started

Same for me. I've always had a hard time reading sci-fi because of all that, especially everyone and everything having impossible to pronounce names. I started reading it a few months ago. Linus Torvalds mentioned that he often rereads it in some interview, and I was looking for a new book to start so I went with that. I was unaware there was an existing movie or a new one coming out. It was a rough start, I gave up on it a few times but ultimatley kept with it. The timing was perfect. I ended up getting to the part just before where the movie ends so when I watched it, the book was fresh in my mind and the ideas and character traits that are only hinted at in the movie were clear to me, and I got to experience a bit of the story for the first time through the movie.