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  "thread": {
    "id": 1873,
    "subject": "Stupid Wolfe fan",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-27T17:04:26+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-27T17:04:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0286@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Doug Eigsti",
        "address": "douge at nti.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-27T17:04:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Stupid Wolfe fan",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Tony Ellis\" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk> wrote:\nI myself first read TBOTNS when I was a spotty, callow teenager who'd read\none Vance book, no Borges and an awful lot\nof the sort of SF that Wolfe's writing -isn't- based on. I was hooked for\nlife.\n\nThe message is, you don't need to be well-read in SF, or any genre before\nyou can appreciate Wolfe. You just need an\nopen mind, and to know good writing when you see it. That's why I believe\nthat if we could only force mainstream\ncritics to actually read a little Wolfe, at gunpoint, they might come\naround to our viewpoint. The only people who\nwill never come over to our side are the ones who are already reading SF.\n\nI still treasure a quote from Wendy Bradley's review of Castleview in,\nsadly, Interzone. The gist of it was: \"this\nbook made me feel stupid, and I don't like feeling stupid.\""
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          "text": "\tI had an empathic reaction when I read this post. I bought THE\nSHADOW OF THE TORTURER beacuse the guy on the cover looked cool with his\nmask and executioner's sword. Reading it was a self-extracting Wolfe\nappreciation course.\n\n\tFor years I refrained from recommending Wolfe to others thinking\nhim so unique that my SF friends wouldn't get it. Twelve Wolfe books later\nthey are spoiled, and chide me for holding out on them. Wolfe is the\nstandard against whom all others must be compared. I hear phrases like\n\"Wolfe would never do that\". One new fan is trying to read LONG SUN in one\nmonth just so he can better appreciate ON BLUE'S WATERS and be able to\ndiscuss it with other fans. Good writing brings out the best in readers.\n\n=Talon="
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