> 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'm reading Dante's Purgatorio. It's pretty good. And talk about 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.

Hee.

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

Chr"and the cover of this edition has this watercolor fold thingee, y'know, to make it symmetrical, do If I caught the buggar right in the middle it'd look like he was part of the picture. 'Course, since it snowed significantly, the daddy long-legs are mainly, well, in Purgatorio, I guess"is