Okay, you guys. I’m doing it, and I’m posting it here so you all hold me accountable: I’m finishing Dune before the end of the month.
I’ve started this book three different times in the last year, and I want to read it, but I keep getting distracted by other books, and that just won’t do anymore. It’s time. We’re doing this. (And yes, by we I mean myself and all of the obsessions that live in my head fighting for my time.)
Someone @ me at the end of May to make sure I’ve finished. 
Just do a read along! Take videos and upload them here, then we WILL be doing this together 0w0
A what? Like, videos of me reading it? You realize that Dune without the Appendices is like 794 pages, right? 
People in my HP running club have been taking turns reading through that entire series. Totally doable.
I found the audiobook was much easier to digest for Dune.
794 pages? Pshhhh, only gonna be the size of a 3 hour movie, its FIIIINE.
Are we talking about Dune?
Anybody here a fan of period history? I’m currently wading my way through Philippa Gregory’s collection of The Cousins’ War.
I’ve never been able to get through Dune personally, all the technical terms and such that require you to look at the index to fully understand just makes it feel like a chore. The premise is interesting and I’d love to be able to read it but it’s never held my interest long enough to make progress in it
I it is definitely a bit much the first time you read it, but after that it becomes very enjoyable.
I’ll give it another shot eventually
For sure. Although to be honest there is better science fiction, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fantastic book.
BIG fan of period history here!! I’ve read a few Philippa Gregory but can’t remember which ones off the top of my head. Only slightly obsessed with Henry VIII
SO GLAD TO MEET ANOTHER FAN OF PHILLIPPA GREGORY. I revel in her storytelling. And yes, only SLIGHTLY obsessed with the Plantagenets as a whole. Elizabeth of York captured my attention almost instantly.
I think I read The Other Boleyn Girl and maybe The White Queen?? I don’t remember though. But same, she’s up there with Diana Gabaldon as far as being able to get so completely absorbed that I don’t even realize thousands of pages have gone by.
Also, highly recommend Margaret George’s The Autobiography of Henry VIII. Another long one but so good!!
Yes! Those were such cornerstone books in the series! I feel like The Other Boleyn Girl was a story that foils over The White Queen, but I digress.
Thank you for the recommendation, I’m always looking forward to adding more books to my collection.
To reciprocate, The Women of The Cousins War is also another more historically based book of hers that goes in-depth about the real lives of Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg
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Edit: removed recommended, found a more appropriate thread Here 
That’s how I felt about The Magician King after reading The Magicians.
Edit: The Magician’s Land was pretty redeeming.
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I’m glad it’s not just me. It’s a while since I’ve read them all.
I’ve stalled when at their first adventure in Fillory. But I love the none Brakebills magic arc that brings Julia(?) back into the story
Maybe just not the right time to be reading it, it is a fantastical cross cherry picking some of the best bits of other magical series and adding reality that others just skim past.
I totally agree! I would totally leave all the Fillory stuff behind, and just read book upon book about students at Brakebills and hedgewitches out in the world. The fact Quentin, Penny and Alice skipped a year irritated me, because that was my favorite part!