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  "thread": {
    "id": 2822,
    "subject": "Re \"An Exchange of Hostages\"",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-09-10T09:26:57+00:00",
    "last": "2001-09-10T09:26:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0692@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-09-10T09:26:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re \"An Exchange of Hostages\"",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Re. Susan Matthews' book, \"An Exchange of Hostages\", Jeff Miller wrote:\nI read it, and was intrigued enough to buy (and not\nyet read) the second in the series. The story has\nlittle if any Lupine influence, IMO, especially since\nMatthews seems to get off on horrid descriptions of\ntorture, a touch that Wolfe leaves out IIRC.\n\nan okay read, but not crucial."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thank you, Jeff. Another list member wrote to me off-list and commented:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "- It is fairly well written."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "- It is very much anti-Lupine."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "- It is perfectly horrid S/M porn with sci-fi trappings."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Oh well, I did ask...\n\nAnyway, a consensus seems to be emerging. It really does sound rather\nhorrid, and, personally, I don't think that I'll bother reading it.\n\nNigel"
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