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  "thread": {
    "id": 2663,
    "subject": "Pullman review (SPOILERS)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-05-24T18:33:58+00:00",
    "last": "2001-05-24T18:33:58+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0444@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Spectacled Bear",
        "address": "spectacled.bear at pobox.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-05-24T18:33:58+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Pullman review (SPOILERS)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 18:51 2001-05-24, alga wrote:\n\"An Almost Christian Fantasy,\" the review by Daniel Maloney in the\nCatholic journal First Things of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is\nup. Intelligent analysis, I think, not just religious but literary.\nhttp://print.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0105/reviews/moloney.html"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Thanks for that, alga! I finished the series just last night,\nand I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who didn't consider\nit entirely satisfactory. The plot of the third book is somewhat\nloose, but with so much wonderful writing and emotional power I\ncould overlook that, provided there was a proper resolution.\nI couldn't understand why the Dust stopped flowing away just\nbecause of Will and Lyra's love; it feels right emotionally, but\nat least a hint of a rationale would have been nice. Her prophesied\ndestiny as some sort of Eve comes to absolutely nothing that I could\nsee. As for them being parted, well! That was just horrible. It really\nupset me. Why did he have to do that?\n\nSpectacled Bear."
        }
      ]
    }
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