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  "archive": "sflovers",
  "thread": {
    "id": 26,
    "subject": "Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1982-12-09T22:11:00+00:00",
    "last": "1982-12-09T22:11:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v6-103-2@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mclure",
        "address": "mclure"
      },
      "date": "1982-12-09T22:11:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I have now twice read the first volume (THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER) in\na vain attempt to convince myself that it is the beginning of an \nearth-shaking effort or \"the best SF I've read all year (Le Guin)\".\nIt would appear to be the beginning of just another quest story and\nhaving just finished LORD OF THE RINGS for the first time, I don't\nthink I can handle yet another of these.  Could someone out there who\nhas read the entire tetralogy and admires it please explain what\nhe/she thinks is so marvelous about it?  Mike \"the Monk\" Urban, are\nyou listening?  I'll admit that Wolfe handles his language better than\nmost SF authors I've read but the story itself seems extremely drawn\nout and the characters don't catch my fancy.  Maybe it's just that I\ndon't much care for sword and sorcery and quests.\n\n        Stuart"
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