…. Say what? I’ve read the first two Dune books. At what point do I need to stop before I reach this crazy storyline?!

I think that whole book series suffers from the motif of characters running in to famous landmarks and exclaiming ‘where is the clue!’
Then Langdon looks about, confused and then smiles and says ‘I know exactly what xyz is…’
Chapter end.

In the movies they smoothed out those very well in to enjoyable popcorn films.

The book is torture.

Check out the podcast ‘372 pages we’re never getting back’ as an antidote.

EDIT as by way of explanation that podcast started as a critique of ready player one and is now a serial take down of bad books in general.

That book is like an endurance marathon of ‘Jesus Christ, I don’t know if I can actually finish this.’ Glamorama is exactly the same. The American Psycho film got its point across so much better just by being subtle and implying or using the violence sparingly. Plus Bale is just hypnotising to watch, and reading the book Patrick is hard to stick with as some pages are just lists of stuff, lists and lists of stuff.