{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1102", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 1102, "subject": "Recent Inactivity", "messages": 5, "voices": 4, "first": "1998-09-20T22:57:54+00:00", "last": "1998-09-22T00:50:14+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "CRCulver", "address": "crculver at aol.com" }, "date": "1998-09-20T22:57:54+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Recent Inactivity", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to\nget some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE\nFREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic\nplot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much.\n\nThanks,\n\nChristopher R. Culver \nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html\n------------------------------------------------\n\"The darkest dreams are the ones that come true.\"\n-Warren Defever" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Marc Coleman", "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org" }, "date": "1998-09-21T08:20:22+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:\nFor some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to\nget some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE\nFREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic\nplot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy\nnamed Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to\nbe demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective,\nyou get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta\nmainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it.\nmarc of Serotonia" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "1998-09-21T13:52:48+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote:\nAt 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to\nget some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE\nFREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic\nplot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy\nnamed Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to\nbe demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective,\nyou get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta\nmainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it.\nmarc of Serotonia" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book.\n\n-Rostrum" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Marc Coleman", "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org" }, "date": "1998-09-21T14:15:40+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 01:52 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote:\nOn Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "So, to" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE\nFREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the\nbasic\nplot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy\nnamed Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to\nbe demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective,\nyou get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta\nmainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it.\nmarc of Serotonia" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book.\n\n-Rostrum" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Agreed (thinking of the hospital scene in particular). Last time I read it\nI thought it might make a good movie... marc of Serotonia" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Matthew Malthouse", "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk" }, "date": "1998-09-22T00:50:14+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "CRCulver at aol.com wrote:\n\nFor some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to\nget some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE\nFREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic\nplot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I finished it (my first reading) last week and found myself rather unsatisfied.\n\nBeing Wolfe I was trying to keep my brain receptive to clues and curios but\nfound nothing that really sparked. The denoument was particularly troubling.\nFrankly I just didn't believe it.\n\nIs it me, or is the book?\n\nMatthew" } ] } ] }