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  "thread": {
    "id": 1951,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v028.n069",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-11-11T04:23:15+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-11T04:23:15+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0453@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Richard Horton",
        "address": "rrhorton at prodigy.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-11T04:23:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n069",
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          "text": "On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:46:00 -0700 (PDT), Rostrum wrote:\nI wonder if we could put together a list of the \"easiest\" or \"most\naccessible\" Wolfe?  \"Wolfe for Beginners\"?  I recently saw someone\nrecommend \"Fifth Head of Cerebrus\" as a place to start with Wolfe, but\nthat seems to me to be one of his more obscure and difficult works (but\nthen I'm biased, because it's my least favorite, for some reason)."
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          "text": "That may have been me, if you saw it on rec.arts.sf.written.  In that\ncase, I was generalizing from personal experience, in that the novella\n\"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\" was the first Wolfe I read.\n\n_The Book of the Long Sun_ actually isn't a bad place to start. \n\nAmong the novels, I guess _Peace_ is a good choice, also.\n\nAmong the short stories, why not \"Trip Trap\"?   A whole lot of people\nstarted perforce with that story.  Also the funny ones (\"How I Lost\nthe Second World War ...\", \"The Rubber Bend\") might not be bad.  \"La\nBefana\" is short, effective, and very Wolfean.  "
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Tusk (Rich Horton)\n\n-- \nRich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net\nHome Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton\nAlso visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online (http://www.sfsite.com/tangent)"
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