I had a great time with this, even if it took me forever to get through it. The fantasy names weren't too terrible (though of course many are drawn from the actual world, as Brian Herbert notes in his afterword in the edition I read) and some of them were even good (frankly five stars for "thopter" alone, because it's so fun to say both in my head and out loud.) But the story was also really well-paced and kept me interested the whole time, and I am considering trying to read the sequel!

(Confession: I did watch the Lynch film before reading this, and that might have helped me understand what was going on somewhat even if I didn't know what was happening while I watched the movie. So that may have helped me feeling more comfortable with some of the stuff going on.)