re: Having a hard time getting into Dune

I read Dune in the summer of 2021 sitting in a Quonset hut on Camp Pendleton doing pre-deployment training. It had been on my list for years so I finally used that time to read it. I enjoyed it, but I did find it to be a little bit dry and maybe a bit pretentious at times. I did really enjoy the world building and all that. Overall though, while I'm glad I read it, at the time I was a little underwhelmed. While I was deployed I was able to see the movie and I totally loved it. I think it actually made me sort of retcon my memory into thinking I liked the book more than I did. I might actually read the book again, because I think I'll appreciate it more now that I have a more full understanding of the lore surrounding the universe. When I read it in 2021 I went in totally clueless about the entire universe - I didnt even know that Dune was a planet. I knew nothing.