Musing Mondays (12/17/12)

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B @ Should be Reading.

This week’s question is: Is there a particular book that is your nemesis–the book you’re determined to one day finish?

Dune by Frank Herbert is a novel that I enjoyed and has influenced the way I think about things. The next two novels in the series zip along famously. Slim, sleek novels. And then… God Emperor of Dune. Not quite a brick, but a fat book. It’s now 3500 years in the future of the world readers experienced in the first three books. Nothing is quite familiar. I hadn’t thought of it this way before, but it’s like starting a whole new science fiction series.

I’m not the only reader who has gotten mired in GEoD though I think it generally happens later than the first 50 pages. I want to read the rest of this series; it’s one of the greats of science fiction literature. It was on my TRB list last year, and I’m going to add it to this Mount TBR this year.

I’m going to do it, I swear. 2013 is the year I finish God Emperor of Dune.