Ehh... I started reading the Dune novels after loving the movies, and they have honestly have been disappointing. Some parts of the first book dealing with env

Ehh... I started reading the Dune novels after loving the movies, and they have honestly have been disappointing. Some parts of the first book dealing with environmentalism are great, but the rest is kinda meh. My main problem is that the Dune Universe seems too small: almost all important events in the Universe happen to the same couple of main characters, and almost everything that happens to them is very important to the Universe. There's a part in Dune Messiah when someone mentions a certain event happens to a very large number of people; they could have made that number 100x larger or 100x smaller and the result would be exactly the same. I read that God Emperor is good, so I'm trying to decide whether to start the third book or just cut my losses and abandon the series.