Not everybody reads Sci-Fi, I get that. There's books you read that sidle up real close-like, until you realize that what you're reading is somehow reminiscent of your life. That it's whispering to you even as you immerse yourself in a story unlike your own in many ways. For me Sci-Fi books can do that but I know folks who take one look at 'Desert Worms', spaceships, or aliens and they check out. Somehow it isn't appealing, or that obstacle that is the unabashedly imaginary proves to be too much.
A friend of mine finished Dune the other day and told me to take a gander. As you can tell from the book cover here this thing was written in the 60's. I liked: the scope, the mix of the political, religious, sociological and ecological, the badass worms. No me gusto: some things get oversimplified, and there is an inescapable sense of infallability when it comes to the protagonist.
When I mentioned I had just finished reading Dune to another buddy of mine he said that he had been thoroughly underwhelmed. Who knows? You could be underwhelmed too.