Cool. It's been more than 15 years since I've read the original Dune books. I think I read 4 of them before I gave up. :-)
Oh, don’t give up. Break em out and try them again. Aside from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the Dune series is in my opinion one of the best works of Sci-Fi ever written or will be written. Unfortunately they made a less than stellar movie out of it.