Any book that can rivet you one week flat reading you deep into the early morning til 4am is a bloody good book. Before Aidan Pryde, before Luke Skywalker, before Ender Wiggin, before Ash Ketchum and Pikachu; before Ned Stark or Robb, before Daenaerys or Jon Snow even - there was Paul Atreides, progenitor of so many of our modern (Western) pop-culture myths. Three cheers to Muad'Dib, Shai-Hulud willing!