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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/sflovers/44",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 44,
    "subject": "Wolfe's FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1985-06-07T19:22:51+00:00",
    "last": "1985-06-10T04:08:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v10-203-3@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "rti-sel!wfi",
        "address": "rti-sel!wfi at topaz.arpa"
      },
      "date": "1985-06-07T19:22:51+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Wolfe's FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "donn at utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley) writes:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I give up.  After going through the book for the twentieth time or\nso, I still have to admit that Gene Wolfe's THE FIFTH HEAD OF\nCERBERUS is my favorite work of sf, and very possibly my favorite\nbook, period.  I have found something new every single time I've\nread it, which I think is the greatest and most difficult gift an\nauthor can make to a reader.  On this pass I finally figured out\nwhat Number Five's real name is.  In retrospect I probably should\nhave guessed it sooner, but that would have taken some of the fun\nand suspense out of it!  Has anyone else had this experience?"
        },
        {
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          "text": "The Fifth Head of Cerberus is also close to being my favorite SF\nwork, although Lem's Solaris and certain other works by other\nauthors are also contenders. It's an infinitely rich and rewarding\nbook, but reading Wolfe is definitely work. You've certainly beat me\non the number of readings; I've read it three times. It's a book I\nrecommend to anyone I talk to about SF.\n\nWolfe's short stories are also first-rate; check out The Death of\nDr.  Island And Other Stories And Other Stories. Actually, I can't\nthink of anything he's written that I haven't enjoyed, including the\nmainstream novel Peace (at least it appears to be mainstream).\n\nAt the risk of starting more flames in the group on quality and SF\n(:-), my opinion is that Fifth Head of Cerberus is his best work,\nbut I've only read the Book of the New Sun once so I haven't really\ngotten into it. I'd be interested in hearing from other people in\nthe group on F. H. of C; does anyone else share our high opinion of\nthis book?\n                                 -- Bill Ingogly"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v10-207-5@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "ucbcad!kalash",
        "address": "ucbcad!kalash at topaz.arpa"
      },
      "date": "1985-06-10T04:08:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Wolfe's FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v10-203-3@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At the risk of starting more flames in the group on quality and SF\n(:-), my opinion is that Fifth Head of Cerberus is his best work,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "        It is close, but for sheer breadth I like \"The Book of the\nNew Sun\" better. They are both absolutely amazing works."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "group on F. H. of C; does anyone else share our high opinion of\nthis book?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "        While I normally do not make responses of 'I agree' (I mean\nwhat is the point?), I can not resist. \"Fifth Head\" is one of the\ngreat books of SF, and I can do no better than quote Anatomy of\nWonder:\n\n        \"These summaries cannot touch the complexity, meaning\n        and sheer beauty of these excellently written stories.\"\n\n                   Joe Kalash\n                   kalash@berkeley"
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    }
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