{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5374", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5374, "subject": "anyone read Dunnet?", "messages": 5, "voices": 4, "first": "2009-03-19T23:42:02+00:00", "last": "2009-03-20T05:46:20+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Son of Witz", "address": "sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org" }, "date": "2009-03-19T23:42:02+00:00", "subject": "(urth) anyone read Dunnet?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me.\n\nanybody here read her? would you second the recommendation?\n\n~witz" } ] }, { "message_id": "<1f7617370903191643r7148fde3n57f37388c8a91052@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2009-03-19T23:43:12+00:00", "subject": "(urth) anyone read Dunnet?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I read the first book and a half. I enjoyed the first one, got bogged down\nsomewhere in the second and never went back." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Son of Witz wrote:\nI was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. “Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me.\n\nanybody here read her” would you second the recommendation?\n\n~witz\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William Royce Briggs", "address": "wrbriggs at gmail.com" }, "date": "2009-03-19T23:51:17+00:00", "subject": "(urth) anyone read Dunnet?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I read and enjoyed the first three. I've attempted to read the fourth novel\ntwice, and I fail miserably each time. It's not that it's bad, I just\nalways seem to have another book come around that grabs my interest more,\nand I abandon it." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Son of Witz wrote:\nI was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy\nDunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary\nand historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is\nhow it was described to me.\n\nanybody here read her? would you second the recommendation?\n\n~witz\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<661304.81944.qm@web50712.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2009-03-20T02:47:52+00:00", "subject": "(urth) anyone read Dunnet?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I enjoyed them, though I didn't bother following all the\nintrigue or all of Lymond's cryptic statements, and I\ncould see how one could get a little tired of him.\n\nThe detail is astonishing.\n\nJerry Friedman" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Son of Witz wrote:\nFrom: Son of Witz \nSubject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet?\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nDate: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5:42 PM\nI was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended\nDorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical\nfiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a\nlot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was\ndescribed to me.\n\nanybody here read her? would you second the recommendation?\n\n~witz\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<3305F1BF-E6E5-48A7-B68B-ED00C516CBF6@butcherbaker.org>", "from": { "name": "Son of Witz", "address": "sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org" }, "date": "2009-03-20T05:46:20+00:00", "subject": "(urth) anyone read Dunnet?", "in_reply_to": "<661304.81944.qm@web50712.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "thanks all.\nsounds worth checking into.\n~witz" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:\n\nI enjoyed them, though I didn't bother following all the\nintrigue or all of Lymond's cryptic statements, and I\ncould see how one could get a little tired of him.\n\nThe detail is astonishing.\n\nJerry Friedman\n\n\n--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Son of Witz wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "From: Son of Witz \nSubject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet?\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nDate: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5:42 PM\nI was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended\nDorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical\nfiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a\nlot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was\ndescribed to me.\n\nanybody here read her? would you second the recommendation?\n\n~witz\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }