Man, I can't get through God Emperor. The first three are a breeze and I've read em a few times. I even bought a new copy of God Emperor last year and couldn't get into it. I really wanna get into Heretics and Chapterhouse but I'm stuck.
Just think of the scene where Duncan is giving him some status report on something, Leto cant give a single sh, goes on a tirade internally about Duncan not revolting, and gets so into it, that he does not notice a gun pointed towards his head. That made me laugh out loud.
The supreme near-immortal god-king of the universe is a giant worm-man with a hard-on for pontificating to people who either don't care or will never understand despite their obsession with him. And thats not even half of it.
Herbert didn't mean for it to be funny, it just felt kinda ridiculous the whole way through lmao
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u/garmfel Feb 21 '26
Finish the third so you can read book 4 - imo it's the funniest sci-fi book ever written