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  "thread": {
    "id": 681,
    "subject": "Reading list",
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    "first": "1998-05-28T17:02:50+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-28T17:02:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0017@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-28T17:02:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Reading list",
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          "text": "On Wed, 27 May 1998 Mark Kelly wrote:\nTo those people who suggested \"The Magus\" by John Fowles, and the > \"Gormenghast\" trilogy by Mervyn Peake, I heartily agree. I would also > add a book called \"The Quincunx\" by Charles Palliser, which is a novel > with an extremely complex plot set in Dickensian London."
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          "text": "Palliser's subsequent book, entitled \"Betrayals\" IIRC, is also rather\nWolfeian, in that it consists of a series of seemingly unrelated\nnarratives,  the connections between which must be deduced by the reader.\n\n--Adam"
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