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  "thread": {
    "id": 4269,
    "subject": "More Miéville",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2004-12-04T01:20:10+00:00",
    "last": "2004-12-04T01:20:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<00b001c4d9e2$6f416710$f1506951@tompwwcu41bnw4>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tom Foster",
        "address": "t.foster2 at ntlworld.com"
      },
      "date": "2004-12-04T01:20:10+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) More Miéville",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I have read and enjoyed both PSS and The Scar, though I can definitely see\nwhere people are coming from with regard to Mi?ville being messy and in need\nof a better editor.  I recently read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and was\ninterested to see that the idea of 'Armada' had very likely been lifted from\nStephenson's description of the Raft, with some gothic embellishments\nadmittedly.  Just thought this was worth poitning out given the comments\nregarding Mi?ville borrowing ideas from other authors...\n\n\nTom"
        },
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          "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:33:46 -0500\nFrom: \"Alice K. Turner\" <aturner6 at nyc.rr.com>\nSubject: (urth) More Mieville\nTo: <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>\nMessage-ID: <047f01c4d977$638e6af0$d27cae44@akt>\nContent-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=\"iso-8859-1\";\nreply-type=original\n\nAh, but I read The Scar first, then went back to PSS. Which makes me\ncompletely agree with Dan'l about grotesquerie and the \"wow\" factor being\nonly good for one book. We simply started with different books. Though I\nstill applaud the Armada as a visual concept.\n\n-alga"
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