I have finished reading Chapterhouse Dune. My fools errand is finished. It’s not good, and of course ends with loose ends.
I think my personal recommendation is reading the first two books. Although just one or even zero are solid choices. Three is alright, except it’s a trap if it makes you curious and want to read more.
I’m tempted to revisit Heinlein who I haven’t read in at least twenty years, but I’m also afraid he’ll be disappointing.
@deinol I learned the hard way, do not read book you liked as a little whelp. I realised that I my brain had added stuff which was better than the original, and as a more mature reader I found topic and themes that … had not aged gracefully.
I instead find myself in an ever increasing flood of new authors, indie and self pub that fills my reading time.
(Although right now I’m in a slump and hiding from my TBR which is terrible)
@GoblinQuester@deinol My solution to that last bit was software. Assign a weight to each series, higher per day since I last read from it, lower per book remaining, so as I get towards the end of a series I'll read it more often. Then at least the software will say "read this next" and it's less trouble to do it than to say "I don't wanna".
@deinol@satsuma I don't think one's an answer to the other, really. Heinlein (in ST) is writing about post-WWII police actions that he wasn't involved in; Haldeman is writing about Vietnam that he was. That alone would give you a completely different set of assumptions, and then there are their individual personalities, and so on. To me they both have value, and I don't reread either very often.
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