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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/sflovers/99",
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  "archive": "sflovers",
  "thread": {
    "id": 99,
    "subject": "Wolfe's _Shadow of the Torturer_",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1992-08-12T18:38:25+00:00",
    "last": "1992-08-12T18:38:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v17-418-15@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "HYLTON",
        "address": "hylton at sjsuvm1.bitnet"
      },
      "date": "1992-08-12T18:38:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Wolfe's _Shadow of the Torturer_",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Like David Ben-Ami, I, too, have just finished reading Wolfe's _Shadow of\nthe Torturer_ and I am not inspired to continue with the series.  In all\nfairness, I must say I do not care for fantasy but after hearing/reading\nso much high praise for Gene Wolfe's stuff I decided to give it a try.\nFurther, I resent authors (publishers?) who put out what Donald Lindsay\ncalls \"multivolume book plus a sequel.\"  Most of the trilogies I read at\nleast are quasi-complete within each volume (especially the first) Big\nexception: _Hyperion_.  I, for some reason, did not resent the two-volume\ntreatment as much with these two.  Back to SotT, however, here we are\nsimply left hanging without even having received the quality of writing\nthat Simmons gave us in _Hyperion_.  As for the attempts to increase our\nvocabularies via archaic and/or made-up terms, I find this irritating if\nnot presumptious; however, to each his or her own.\n\nCal Hylton"
        }
      ]
    }
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