> Well, Dune is kinda stale. Yeah, I have to concur with that take. When I read Dune, I just didn't find it that interesting. It rarely felt like the charact

> Well, Dune is kinda stale. Yeah, I have to concur with that take. When I read Dune, I just didn't find it that interesting. It rarely felt like the characters had agency--a lot of plot tokens were collected and redeemed to move the story forward (whoops, story needs to move--time for a new, previously unmentioned superpower). And quite often the characters were just cartoonishly dumb or smart or good or evil. As you said, it's certainly not for everyone. I suspect it's more a "product of its time".