Dune

I still own a copy of this book marked “Reprinted August 1972”, so I suppose I first read it soon after that. I never became a fan, but I remember buying the sequel, which I liked even less.

I last read this one in 2004, and commented then in my diary that “It's not as bad a book as I expected; the scenario is well thought out; only the characters and story-telling seem a bit crude, dated in style by now.”