Back in the 60's I tried reading Frank Herbert's "Dune. I got as far as the part where Paul puts his hand in the "pain box" and then got bored and put it away ( I think the paperback is still somewhere in my attic. Frankly, the novel seem to me like a cross between "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Stranger in a Strange Land. Too plodding, too religious, too political - not Science Fiction material at all. Give me "The Lensman" series by E.E. "Doc" Smith or Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy for world-shaking epic story-telling. "Dune" did not cut it with me.