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They are very complex so they are a slow read, but they are fantastic. I don't usually read Sci Fi, so if I liked them anyone who likes adventure books or politics should like them. They aren't hard to understand, it's just hard to keep all the people straight. Dune was the best. The rest were of varying interest to me. I haven't read them for years, either, but I've been thinking about them with us in Iraq and the Feydayeen attacking us daily.
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I found myself re-reading certain paragraphs multiple times. Not because I didn't understand the words, but because it was sometimes important to note the exact wording of a sentence. Often there was much that wasn't being explicitely said.

One of the things I never picked up on when I read the book at 12 was that Baron Harkonen was a pedophile.
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