> Also, since my family drove down I took along some books. I added the first four Dune chronicles
> to my collection because a friend of mine recomended them. Anyway, I only got around to
> reading the first one and it seemed like there was only the barest trace of a plot. It seemed that
> Frank Herbert was writing the way I write stories, scene by scene with only a vague idea of
> how the story would end. Are all the other books like that?

Yes, and the other aspects of the story make up for it less and less in each book.

You appear to have bought one book too many, as the standard advice is to pretend it's a trilogy and stop after the third book.
If you have to go on, the fourth book is also a good place to stop.
Don't get any of the rest - they're not worth it, and the author snuffed it before he wound the series up, so you're left going "Hey, what happens next? What was *that* about?"

Pa"voice of experience"ul

(Disneyworld? What? No, I'm waiting to see what Disneyplanet is like...)