I’ve had both, the Hyperion series, and The Expanse series sitting on my shelf for years now, and only ever read a little bit of the first books of both series.

I’m currently re-reading the Lord of The Rings trilogy, but after, I’m planning on reading The Expanse or Hyperion series.

Which should I read first?

  • mudle@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    Man, I loved Dune so much. I haven’t picked up the sequels yet because I still have so much in my backlog, lol.

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Messiah (next book) is pretty short and a good place to stop/pause if you have tons of other stuff to read. When you continue to Messiah, you at least get to see Frank Herbert’s message about the dangers of messianic figures realized.

    • reddig33@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I didn’t care for the Dune sequels at all. The first book is a masterpiece, but the rest to me felt like a waste of time.

    • skulblaka@startrek.website
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      2 years ago

      I feel like the only person on the planet who just couldn’t get into Dune. Tried reading the first book like three separate times but it never grabbed me. I found the Dune wiki to be interesting as hell, and I love Warhammer 40k which I know is pretty directly inspired by Dune, so its weird that I didn’t like it but something about the way it’s written just makes it difficult to follow for me.

      Maybe I should try the movies… Sounds kind of blasphemous to me though, even if they are legitimately good movies.