I’d like to tell you about my favorite book that I had never read.

Dune.

I grew up in a small Texas town.  One of the few things to do there was go to the local library.  I remember going with my mother when I was young and walking up and down the aisles in the “adult” section looking at the books that were beyond my comprehension.

I would wander the fiction section looking at the covers of sci-if and fantasy novels.  One of my favorite books to pull off the shelf and stare at was Dune*.  I remember going week after week to the library and gravitating directly to that particular shelf and pulling out that book to stare at its cover.… Read the rest