Children of Dune by Frank Herbert.
Do you love it?
Oh, God, yeah. I think I'd honestly have to say this is the best science fiction story I've ever read (by which I mean the Dune saga). It will be disappointing when I'm through with Frank's books; I'm not even going to bother with the ones by his son after what people have said about them.
I love the Dune series, I love it the same way others love LotR. I've read them so many times, and still feel like I get something new out of them each time.
There are people who enjoy the KJA stuff, but I can barely get through the excerpts that are posted online. The writing reminds me of cheap romance novels, it's so repetitious and uninspired.
I'm always happy when I see someone else getting hooked on Dune.
It's weird, a friend of mine at work asked me if I've ever read
Dune today. I told him I'm in the middle of
Children of Dune right now (and really, really enjoying it -- I think it's the best one yet, at least so far). He's a huge LotR fan too, incidentally, I think he saw The Hobbit five times or something ridiculous like that. Anyway. He said
Dune is his favorite science fiction series of all time. It seems to have that effect on people. The guy who initially lent me the first
Dune book said it's his favorite book series of all time. There's a depth to it that I think is rare in popular literature, much less science fiction which I think tends often to be on the juvenile side.