My favorite book of all time is DUNE and the only other author that has created as immerse and realistic world that I can think of is J.R. Tolkein. The first 3 books in the series are my favorite but as the series progresses the story becomes less intresting for me and the charachters somehow dilluted (sp?). However DUNE is a must for any fantasy or Sci fi fan, it's a true gem.

DUNE was good and absorbing-but so long that I have avoided reading the sequels.

One very good book, and the rest garbage does not speak well of this writer.

If FH had never even lifted a pen to paper to write Dune, he would still be on this list for sci-fi greats such as Dosadai Experiment, Santaroga Barrier, and Whipping Star. The chairdog has got to be the coolest, creepiest, most undescribed invention in sci-fi. (well axlotl tanks are up there too)

I read the first Dune and it was good, but not pageturner. The sequels, however, are boring.

Herbert has this very annoying problem: half of the stuff he says sounds cool but is completely incomprehensible and out of logic. I admire the Dune books cos they have nice and deep plot, original idea and well-developed chars. BUT, especially in the Messiah and the Children, his Problem just spoils the fun. There are dialogues which make absolutely no sense. It might be just me but i've heard ppl sharing this opinion...

Dune is one of the greatest books ever writen. It is so complex and includes so many facets of the human experence. His thoughts on government, religion, and human behavour was awsome and usually right on.

It's possible that Herbert doesn't quite deserve his own reputation. His first great book, "Dune," is justly considered one of the masterpieces of science fiction; it's lushly written and superbly paced, and its subject matter -- of spice and great worms and sweeping, image-laden tracts of desert -- is moving beyond words. Each book thereafter, however, heads slowly downhill. The second is still excellent. The third is merely good. The fourth is barely adequate -- and so on. Had Herbert found another voice, another way to express himself, he could have been a greater writer; by shackling himself to Arrakis, however, his imagination became limited by the framework he had created -- and his later work actually damaged the awesome beauty of his masterpiece in most memories.

His Dune novels are so deep and well constructed that you wish you could experience life in that future period, even though much of it sounds horrible.

One of the greatest authors of all time. His imagination id astounding, and his scope of vision is breath taking. His books are all epics.

Nothing better than a good Frank Herbert story,

the dune series is incredible and i would have given hima five but i lik erobin hobb better, and i've never read any of his other works other than dune.

When people think of scifi two worlds universally pop up into eveyones head. Tolkeins the Hobbit and Herberts Dune. Long live the fighters.

It's the oddest thing--I read _Dune_ and for three weeks could not concentrate on another book. I'm told that this is normal. Herbert's work isn't bad, but I probably won't come back. The reading went quickly, but like Goodkind, almost nothing had happened. Like Tolkein, the scenes felt rushed.

Dune is on of the best SF I've ever read

Truly one of the great writer-philosophers of our time. He was one of the few people in the modern age who really thought about subjects ranging from religion to ecology to time. It is truly a shame that he died before he could truly finish the Dune series.

But only for Dune, not the wretched sequels.