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  "thread": {
    "id": 2177,
    "subject": "Long Sun vs. New Sun",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-02T02:53:23+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-02T02:53:23+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0880@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Redhaven1",
        "address": "redhaven1 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-02T02:53:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Long Sun vs. New Sun",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Please don't crucify me. . .\n\n    I got started on Wolfe when I was sick in the hospital.  My parents \noffered to pick up some books to help pass the time and I suggested a book I \nhad heard of called The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.  The only Wolfe \nbooks Border's had were the last two books of the Long Sun series.  Frankly, \nI'm glad it was these two or I wouldn't be posting on this list today.  I \nloved Calde and Exodus and immediately began to try to read all the Wolfe \nbooks I could find.  I ordered the Book of the New Sun as a single volumn \nfrom the book club I was in.  Upon reading it I was extremely dissappointed.  \nI didn't think it was near as good as the Long Sun.  To me, it seemed like a \nstrange, disjointed fairy-tale that kinda wanted to be sci-fi.  I admit, the \nmood of the entire work was beautifully haunting, and when I get arround to \nreading it a second time I'll probably find a hundered things I missed, but \nin my view New Sun was the worst, Urth of the New Sun was little better, and \nLong Sun was best.  Short Sun is shaping up to be the best yet.  Well, that's \nmy two bits.  I just felt I had to defend the Long Sun, because it's what got \nme hooked.  If I had started on New Sun, I don't think I'd be a Wolfe fan.\n\n-Steve"
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