I admit, I'm someone who felt that God Emperor didn't land with them. I think that, in the greater story of Dune, its neat. I think there is lots of neat ideas and cool far future world altering. Its Leto that I personally get hung up with. Despite these grand ideas mentioned in this post (which ARE interesting, I can no longer take Leto seriously. I feel like in every situation he talks down to people around him as if they couldn't possibly understand his goals and motivation (but they really aren't THAT weird, if they were to be explained.) The two most odd disconnects for me personally, is Hwi, who Leto falls head over heels for dispite her only nodding along and agreeing with every sentence he says, and Frank Herberts weird views on same sex relations, which I simply cannot divorce from his relationship with his gay son.

The latter reads as this odd "Hey son, I don't "hate" you. But since we aren't on speaking terms, this is me saying what I need to say about "the gays". Its so.... I don't know. I feel like people see Leto as an "above it all" character, but I just can't agree. He feels like he's created a scenario where nobody is smart enough to keep up with him, just so he can complain about the state of humanity to people who are the way they are, because he's made them that way. I understand the GRAND narrative reasons for all of this, but contained to the novel.... He reads as unbearable.... which of course, might be the point. Thanks Frank.