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  "thread": {
    "id": 5322,
    "subject": "BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2009-01-23T03:24:59+00:00",
    "last": "2009-01-23T06:45:49+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<30965.198.1232681099.squirrel@o2.hostbaby.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tim Walters",
        "address": "walters at doubtfulpalace.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-23T03:24:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000",
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          "text": "The Guardian (UK) has published a list of 1000 \"books that everyone should\nread,\" and BoTNS made the SF section:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/dfk9dz\n\nThe list is a bit Anglocentric, and (perhaps for that reason) leaves off\nsome writers (Disch, Crowley, Le Guin) that I would consider to be\nno-brainers; but at least most of the books on it are, in fact, quite\ngood, which isn't always the case with such lists."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com"
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    {
      "message_id": "<44fb53d10901222058y3cbea5b3kc6013f22569ea369@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Keeley",
        "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-23T04:58:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000",
      "in_reply_to": "<30965.198.1232681099.squirrel@o2.hostbaby.com>",
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          "text": "On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tim Walters\n<walters at doubtfulpalace.com> wrote:\nThe Guardian (UK) has published a list of 1000 \"books that everyone should\nread,\" and BoTNS made the SF section:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/dfk9dz\n\nThe list is a bit Anglocentric, and (perhaps for that reason) leaves off\nsome writers (Disch, Crowley, Le Guin) that I would consider to be\nno-brainers; but at least most of the books on it are, in fact, quite\ngood, which isn't always the case with such lists.\n\n--\nTim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Disch makes Moorcock's list of dystopias, while Le Guin makes Susanna\nClarke's segment on \"imagined worlds\".\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-fiction-fantasy-dystopias\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/o-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-books\n\n-Matt"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4979679D.8020209@doubtfulpalace.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tim Walters",
        "address": "walters at doubtfulpalace.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-23T06:45:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BoTNS makes the Guardian's Top 1000",
      "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d10901222058y3cbea5b3kc6013f22569ea369@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Matthew Keeley wrote:\nDisch makes Moorcock's list of dystopias, while Le Guin makes Susanna\nClarke's segment on \"imagined worlds\"."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't think those are part of the 1000, though, are they? Actually, \nit's hard to tell if they're extras or pulled out for special attention. \nMaybe it will be clearer when the list is complete."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
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          "text": "Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com"
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