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  "thread": {
    "id": 2559,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v030.n066",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-02-01T03:25:25+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-02T02:06:46+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0269@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Timothy Reilly",
        "address": "treilly at ozemail.com.au"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-01T03:25:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n066",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 Redhaven1 at aol.com wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I'm just starting Free Live Free and it seems darker and grittier than\nanything by Wolfe I've read yet.  Actually, I'm not really enjoying it\nat\nall.  I would just give Wolfe the benefit of the doubt (he's never let\nme\ndown yet) and read it trusting it will be better, but I'm coming to this\nlist\nfor advice.  Maybe this book was his one dud.  What did you guys think\nof it?\n Is Free Live Free worth it?  (i.e.  Does it get better?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I gave up after a few pages, quickly deciding that I didn't like this sort\nof Wolfe - folksy prose and weak humour, as opposed to his more literary\nefforts like TBNS.  I was tring to introduce a well read friend of mine to\nWolfe last year, and her local library only had FLF.  She reported to me\nthat she read half of it and then skipped to the end \"because it was very\nbad\".  So 0/2 from this end.\n\nTim"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0272@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Redhaven1",
        "address": "redhaven1 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-02T02:06:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n066",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0269@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thanks for the advice.  It looks like Free Live Free will be shelved for a \nwhile though.  My Return to the Whorl just arrived at Borders today.  \n\n-Steve, who wants a Vironese name. . .  "
        }
      ]
    }
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