I bought a cheap collection of his books thinking I'd surely like it after hearing about it forever, but I just can't make it through a chapter. Too many hard-t

I bought a cheap collection of his books thinking I'd surely like it after hearing about it forever, but I just can't make it through a chapter. Too many hard-to-pronounce, impossible-to-remember, names that are "a subtle reference" to something in real life. For the first few nouns, it's a light "ha, clever." After that, they become the opposite of funny, and a constant distraction (am I pronouncing it right? this behavior isn't anything like the thing I thought it was a reference to, did I interpret it wrong? am I only reading this because it's popular?) The books were also oddly skinny, and apparently the library DOES NOT want any more of that friggin' box set. And definitely not that Dune box set! I ended up just throwing them out.