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  "thread": {
    "id": 48,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe and the Severian series",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1991-02-17T05:32:23+00:00",
    "last": "1991-02-17T05:32:23+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<250@smith.UUCP>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dick Smith",
        "address": "dick at smith.uucp"
      },
      "date": "1991-02-17T05:32:23+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe and the Severian series",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In article <62671 at bbn.BBN.COM> mthome at bbn.com (Mike Thome) writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "DMARKFIE at INDYMED.BITNET writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "On the subject of Gene Wolfe, are there any people out there who have read\n_The Shadow of the Torturer_ and the other books in the series?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I've got most of the whole story of Severian and IMHO I found it a very hard\nread."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Not at all an uncommon experience with GW's works - My personal\nfeelings about his novels run the gamut from interested frustration\nthrough near-awe ..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I made a half-joking comment to Gene Wolfe sometime between the\npublication of the 3rd and 4th books of this 4-logy, about being\nimpatient with Sevarian's progress... his reply:\n\n\t\"Sevarian is a very slow walker.\"\n\nJust in case you are wondering, I greatly enjoyed the _Book of the New\nSun_.  I'm less sure about some of Wolfe's later works, but that's for a \ndifferent posting."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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