Took me almost 2 months to finish. Plenty to like and dislike. Great political intrigue but not very fun. It was agonisingly slow, chock full of word soup and bizarre mysticism from characters who seemed somewhat robotic, basically a lot to digest (re: Leto Atreides II). I think at book 3, the Dune chronicles are starting to wear on me a bit. May take me a while to read God Emperor of Dune...