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  "thread": {
    "id": 29,
    "subject": "Book of the New Sun",
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    "first": "1983-10-27T23:40:00+00:00",
    "last": "1983-10-27T23:40:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v8-108-4@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "obrien",
        "address": "obrien@rand-unix"
      },
      "date": "1983-10-27T23:40:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Book of the New Sun",
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          "text": "A Change of Hobbit bookstore has the fourth volume of \"The Book\nof the New Sun\", by Gene Wolfe, available in paperback.  This means\nthat as of now, the entire work is available for purchase.\n\n     This is just about the best book I've read in years.  I highly\nrecommend it to everyone, with the (possibly fatal) provisio that if\nyou find the first volume slow, keep going.  This is somewhat like the\nDorothy Dunnett books: you have to get past the first two somehow,\nthen you gradually become hooked.  It's very well worth the investment\nof time and money.  This is some of the finest literature I've seen in\nSF, right up there with the best of LeGuin.  Do not be put off by the\nprofession of the protagonist.  This is one of the greatest paeons in\npraise of human worth and dignity that I've ever read - a genuine\nnovel of redemption.\n\n     Lovers of language will have a particularly good time.  Gaudeamus\nigitur.\n\n     P.S. If anyone wants to sell me the hardbacks, I'm buying."
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