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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/sflovers/142",
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  "archive": "sflovers",
  "thread": {
    "id": 142,
    "subject": "Book of the New Sun-Should I keep going? (*SPOILERS*)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1996-12-12T08:20:34+00:00",
    "last": "1996-12-12T08:20:34+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v21-516-11@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Gallo",
        "address": "mike at hal.iodesign.com"
      },
      "date": "1996-12-12T08:20:34+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Book of the New Sun-Should I keep going? (*SPOILERS*)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Jeremy P Lakatos <afn39111 at afn.org> wrote:\nHardly. Though there are swords, and sorcery, there are no quests to be\nwon, no dragons to battle, no evil overlords to overthrow. It isn't Swords\nand Sorcery, it's fantasy (but then, scifi is fantasy too)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   I'd agree - an original fantasy reminiscent of Jack Vance's _Dying\nEarth_.  If you didn't like that, you probably won't like _New Sun_ either.\n\nMichael Wen <mswen at worldnet.att.net@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "some colony world that's lost contact with civilization and had\ndegenerated.  Am I right?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   I don't expect this to be a major spoiler, but Urth -is- Earth in some\nfar off time (hence the name)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "What I would really like to know is why this series is so popular.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   I'll concur with most of what Jeremy wrote.  While there's more action\nlater on, I think it's main attraction is the richness of the prose, the\nstrangeness of the setting, and the puzzles that are Urth and its\ninhabitants.\n   I adore the Book of the New Sun but realize it's not for everybody.  In\nfact, the first time I read it, I didn't know whether I liked it or not,\nbut I just -had- to keep reading."
        }
      ]
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