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  "thread": {
    "id": 3970,
    "subject": "Very Short Introductions (was: Re: (urth) Generic Considerations)",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-04-25T22:06:19+00:00",
    "last": "2003-04-28T10:32:54+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3329@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gareth Jelley",
        "address": "gjelley at btopenworld.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-25T22:06:19+00:00",
      "subject": "Very Short Introductions (was: Re: (urth) Generic Considerations)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes\" <katbarx at hotmail.com>\nAlso good are the \"...for Beginners\" series from Writers and Artists.\nTheir \"Kierkegaard for Beginners\" that gave me entree to a thinker\nwhose prose I had previously found opaque and murky. They're somewhere\nbetween books and info-comics: heavily (and humorously) illustrated,\nand run about the same length as the OUP books Gareth mentions --\nheck, since I've never seen those, they may for all I know be British\neditions of the same series."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The OUP ones aren't illustrated like the 'Beginners', but they fill a\nsimilar gap. The other thing I like about them is their size - they slip\nnicely into a pocket, and look well-designed to boot...\n\nA US link with loads of the titles in the series:\n\nhttp://www.oup-usa.org/catalogs/general/series/Very_Short_Introductions.html\n\nand a UK one:\n\nNo. No UK one, as the UK server is a bit sh*te\n\nAnon,\n\nG."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3349@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ed Cooke",
        "address": "edbucks at cantab.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-28T10:32:54+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Very Short Introductions (was: Re: (urth) Generic Considerations)",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0304-3329@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "The US \"...for Beginners\" series is not the same as the UK comic-style\npublications; the latter changed their name to \"Introducing...\" to make this\nclearer. More info on the latter at\n\nwww.iconbooks.co.uk"
        }
      ]
    }
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