I struggled for years to get into Dune (the book). There's just so much getting thrown at the reader early on, it's all very strange, and I could never get very far. The recent movie was a great entry point for that world, and after seeing it, I finally "got it." Read the book and loved it.

Unfortunately, starting the second book in the series, it gets wierd again :)

When I was young, one of the books I read over and over was the novelization of Temple of Doom. Movie books are awesome!