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  "thread": {
    "id": 10,
    "subject": "shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)",
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    "first": "1983-06-20T18:33:30+00:00",
    "last": "1983-06-20T18:33:30+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<416@hpda.UUCP>",
      "from": {
        "name": "bvi",
        "address": "bvi at hpda.uucp"
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      "date": "1983-06-20T18:33:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)",
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          "text": "Hmmm... No, the only correlation between Donaldson and Wolfe that I share\nis that they're both hard to get into.  However, whereas I *forced* myself\nto finish the 1st Donaldson book, and had absolutely *no* interest in \nreading any more in the sequence, I found I couldn't put Shadow of the\nTorturer down once I got about 1/4 of the way into it.  It does take a \nbit of getting used to, because Wolfe writes in a deliberately obscure\nmanner that forces you to use more imagination than most other SF books.\nI found that Severian and the whole culture portrayed in the book \nfascinating; I finished SoT in one sitting and ran out the next day to\nbuy the other three books, which I finished post haste.  I only wish\nthere were more!\n\nBeatriz Infante"
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