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  "thread": {
    "id": 2345,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v029.n045",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-08-12T14:29:52+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-12T14:29:52+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0157@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-12T14:29:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v029.n045",
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          "text": "Speaking of Crowley and DAEMONOMANIA, would it be a good diea to start\nreading these now?  If they are like the volumes of the NEW SUN books,\nand suffer in isolation, I'd prefer to wait until he (finally)\nfinishes the work--on the other hand, if the books are more like the\nindividual parts of the SUN series (NEW, LONG and SHORT) and\nthematically related but not really \"one big novel\" I might as well\njump in."
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          "text": "They are one big novel. They will have taken almost 25 years to write\nwhen he is done, and you may wonder if they are worth it. Of course I'm\nup to my eyebrows at the moment, so I sort of think they are, but I\nwould never urge this series on anyone who was not inclined in certain\nways. (I would never urge Wolfe on anyone either--we're a self-selected\ngroup! Still, someone--I wonder who?--must have urged me or given me\nSHADOW all those years ago---hmmmm). If you do decide to read them, you\nwill have to find the first two on one of the second-hand sites, though\nI don't think that will be difficult--those are wonderful sites! If you\ndo embark, you may eventually need my interview, though I think AEGYPT,\nthe first book, is quite enjoyable reading on its own, and you don't\nneed the interview for that. Don't wait for the last book. Seriously.\nIt's not just that it's not written yet, it's also that it will be a\nsort of coda, taking place nearly 25 years after the others.\n\n-alga"
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