Dune

When I decided to start “really reading books” for the first time a few months ago, I started with the best ones I could find. Ender was the first one I read, and already became my number one book.

Dune took away that title. Easily. Mostly because of the more fantastic like setting, with super powers involved. Where Ender was a nearly impossible intelligent 6 year old boy in a future Earth-Like world, Paul of Atreides was a supernaturally intelligent and logical young man in an impossible arid planet.

There was a perfect blend of royal-blooded learned skills and centuries old genetic breded ones. They focused on self control, the use of reason/logic to overcome pain and emotions, the prediction of the future, battle tactics and give leader traits.

All of them were very richly described, as was the setting. The rarity of water created some very unique situations.