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  "thread": {
    "id": 51,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1991-06-05T07:39:56+00:00",
    "last": "1991-06-05T16:53:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<3559@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Iain Jameson",
        "address": "ijameson at physics.adelaide.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1991-06-05T07:39:56+00:00",
      "subject": "Gene Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Most horrible Gene Wolf book ..... There are Doors.\nThis would have to be the most boring book I have\never read. It is the only book I have never been\nable to finish.\nQuite a disappointment after devouring the torturer series,\nthe dying earth series and the devil in the forest (or something\nlike that).\n\nHas anyone read it, and understand what was going on?\n\nIain"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sutela.676121362@polaris>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kari Sutela",
        "address": "sutela at polaris.utu.fi"
      },
      "date": "1991-06-05T11:29:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<3559@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "ijameson at physics.adelaide.edu.au (Iain Jameson) writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Most horrible Gene Wolf book ..... There are Doors.\nThis would have to be the most boring book I have\never read."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Has anyone read it, and understand what was going on?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yes, I have read it, and I think I understood what was going on.  However,\nthe whole story seemed to be rather pointless --- I don't understand why\nthe book was written.  IMHO, it wasn't boring but after reading it I was\nleft with a feeling: \"Yeah, so what?\".  A disappointment."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<6814@vela.acs.oakland.edu>",
      "from": {
        "name": "R o d Johnson",
        "address": "rjohnson at vela.acs.oakland.edu"
      },
      "date": "1991-06-05T16:53:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<3559@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In article <3559 at sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> ijameson at adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au.oz.au (Iain Jameson) writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Most horrible Gene Wolf book ..... There are Doors."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I agree, it's not good.  Oddly enough, it seems to be his current favorite.\n\n. . ."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Quite a disappointment after devouring the torturer series,\nthe dying earth series "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "?  Isn't this by Jack Vance?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Has anyone read it, and understand what was going on?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yep.  But it's not very interesting."
        }
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