Eric Phetteplace’s Reviews > Dune > Status Update

Trying but it's immediately terrible writing. "Butlerian Jihad did you say! Let's give BACK STORY". "Isn't this a wonderful thing that I, Baron Harkonnen, have done?" This is bad writing for idiots. Build a story. You can just tell us the character's name in narrative rather than have them say it aloud in their first line. Or don't! We will figure it out eventually. I hate books that assume the reader is illiterate.