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I've never read the prequels either, but a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think
I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.
Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit...)
It was interesting seeing some of it fleshed out, but I'm not a fan of Brian Herbert's contributions.
I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was "Holy shit it's the Butlerian Jihad"
"we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better"
To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).