What are you reading the week of June 10, 2012?

[MrModerate]

1. I set myself the task of rereading the entire Dune oeuvre . . .

As well as the tumbledown pasteboard shacks erected on the outskirts of Arrakis by Herbert (the lesser) and Anderson (the least).

But it's a real slog. They can't write for beans — seemingly innocent of pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or the details of the universe they're trying to mimic — nor can they portray a character with anything greater than monomolecular depth.

I may give up on the prequels and sequels and just read the ones Frank Herbert wrote himself.