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  "thread": {
    "id": 3936,
    "subject": "A book worth buying?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-04-15T04:19:22+00:00",
    "last": "2003-04-15T09:37:43+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3176@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus",
        "address": "zibethicus at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-15T04:19:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A book worth buying?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Malco:"
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Lanark by Alasdair Gray"
        },
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          "text": "Interesting...I was gonna suggest the very same thing.  Bear in mind, tho', \nthat Mr. Gray - encountered in the book as the author, Nastler - is very \nreluctant to have 'Lanark' regarded as science fiction.  He shouts \nindignantly that _he_ is writing about _real people_...\n\nIf you really want to spend some money on it, Bloomsbury have issued a 20th \nAnniversary edition; a boxed set with all four volumes as an individual \nbook.  £35.00:\n\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/184195120X/bloomsburymag-21/202-5635029-7452657\n\nShould gain in value over the years...\n\n->Zx<-\n\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\nWhen God failed to respond reliably to on-line access, Mankind had to turn \nelsewhere to unload the burden of its own responsibility.  It invented the \ncomputer - which is far more accessible than God and just as satisfying - \nproviding you never give yourself time to think about it.\n\n- Colin Kapp\n\n____________________________________________________________"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3180@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Malco",
        "address": "nastler at yahoo.dk"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-15T09:37:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) A book worth buying?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0304-3176@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Hi Zx,\nHe does say that, but he also admits that although\nThaw/Lanark is based on himself they have been altered\nin various ways in order that the reader will become\nmore attached to them. In any case, I trust Nastler as\nfar as I can comfortably spit out a rat.\nPersonally I dislike the idea of the books being bound\nseparately, it might give someone the nasty idea of\nreading them in the \"right\" order. Which would be the\nwrong thing to do.\nI'll also say that Lanark deals with the judgement of\na society following an assessment of the main\ncharacter by a council of representatives. And I was\nparticularly taken by the passage where Thaw accuses\nGod of using \"a torturers trick\"  (!!!) to gain his\nworship. Thaw prays for mercy during an awful asthma\nattack.\n\n\nArchD'Ikon Zibethicus wrote:\nMalco:>Lanark by Alasdair Gray\nInteresting...I was gonna suggest the very same thing.\nBear in mind, tho', that Mr. Gray - encountered in the\nbook as the author, Nastler - is very reluctant to\nhave 'Lanark' regarded as science fiction. He shouts\nindignantly that _he_ is writing about _real\npeople_...\nIf you really want to spend some money on it,\nBloomsbury have issued a 20th Anniversary edition; a\nboxed set with all four volumes as an individual book. £35.00:"
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