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I read dune when I was 14 and though it required taking notes (vocab lookups mostly) I tore through it in a couple days. Then a year later I re-read it and holy shit, there were all kinds of things I didn't pick up on. Read it again when I was 24 and there were whole subplots I found (tho this was after reading all the FH books).
All this is to say: great books deliver multiple messages if you take the time to read them, then pause to reflect on what the author is saying. And I recommend his other stuff, especially the Dosadi Experiment (WILD PREMISE for a protagonist!), it's sequel Whipping Star, and (unrelated) The White Plague, they're worth your time. Probably. I don't know how much time you have. But they're rather good.