Dune

I watched the recent movie of this and found it to be a snooze fest, a nearly three hour long movie of desert shots. Then I read an internet review where they called the book unfilmable so I decided to give it a shot. I liked it. It's not one of my favorite books but it was good and it makes the list of one of the longest books I've read. It influenced Star Wars that much is clear. It's an epic about a boy named Paul, his family, and an addictive spice that rules their desert world. It took me a couple of months to read it and I had to throw it away since it was in way too poor condition to keep by the end. It was intriguiing enough to keep me interested throughout it's 700+ pages. I can see why it's one of the most popular science fiction books of all time. It is well thought out and imaginative. It's one of those science fiction books that will be labeled as literature an hundred years from now.