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Dune - original storyI forget which Dune novel I’ve read to. I think I started the last book but never finished it. Definitely read at least the one where the Paul-Worm-Emperor dies.
After the second book it gets…weird. Though I thought the transformation of the planet to wooded forest and back to desert again was interesting.
Spoiler:
Dune Messiah - Chani dies in childbirth, Paul abandons his empire and wanders off into the desert, Alia takes the throne
Children of Dune - Alia has become possessed by the ancestral memory of the Baron, turns evil, Leto accepts the beginning of the transformation
God Emperor of Dune - Set 3500 years later, Leto II is a giant sand worm, dies
Heretics of Dune - set 1500 years later, follows the struggle of the Bene Gesserits against the Honored Matres
Chapterhouse: Dune - set immediately after Heretics
God Emperor of Dune (part four) is definitely the weirdest book in the series by a lot. The final two have some weird stuff in them (the villains are basically sex witches who get people addicted to their pussies) but the actual narratives are a lot more straight forward than God Emperor, which is mostly a giant sandworm hybrid human sitting around in the dark internally musing about philosophy, morality, politics, and sociology.