I think Dune is one of the best books ever. It's huge, it has such scope and depth and a solid treatment of its admittedly weighty material. I have given this a lot of thought recently, and I have finally decided that -- yes -- it has a very slight edge over Lord of the Rings, and in fact it is *almost* up there with Proust's Remembrances of Things Past.
One of these days I'm going to read it, too.

Brunnen-"you can't beat it for killing spiders"G