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  "thread": {
    "id": 30,
    "subject": "obscure Wolfe",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-05-13T16:50:44+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-14T05:42:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0044@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "M. Gallo",
        "address": "mgallo at slonet.org"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-13T16:50:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) obscure Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Gene Wolfe sells some of his own works by mail (autographed and\neverything), and among them are two I have not heard of: _Letters Home_\nand _Bibliomen_, both small press releases.  \n\tAs much as I'd like, I can't really afford to buy every Wolfe title I\ncome across, and I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with these\ntwo books, what they're about, how they compare wtih his others works,\n&c.\n\nThanks,\nM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0045@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-14T05:42:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) obscure Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0001-0044@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #9662929 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nM. Gallo,\n\nLETTERS HOME is just that--the letters Gene Wolfe wrote home while he\nwas in Korea during the Korean War.  Some wags seem to fancy it a\nfiction, a novel.  Perhaps too gullibly I accept it at face value as\nnon-fiction.  As such it is difficult to compare with any of Wolfe's\nother work.\n\nBIBLIOMEN (Broken Mirrors Press) is a special collection of short\ncharacter sketches, most of which have not appeared anywhere else.\n(Thematically: all the characters are looking for books in one way or\nanother.)  Originally published by Cheap Street, the Broken Mirrors Press\nedition has a few more characters added =and= it costs a lot less!\nComparing it to other Wolfe collections: well, it is much shorter\nand yet, as I wrote above, the pieces are thematically tied\ntogether--so it is almost like a very short novel.  But it isn't.\n\nI have this problem in reading a collection of Wolfe stories: I tend\nto gobble them up, one after another, about as fast as I can; as a\nresult I get the equivalent of an ice cream headache after five or\nsix stories.  Point: I did not have this happen when I read BIBLIOMEN\nin one sitting (probably another reason why I sense it is \"like a\nshort novel\").\n\n=mantis="
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