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  "thread": {
    "id": 1062,
    "subject": "Kirkus review of RttW",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-12-15T20:18:58+00:00",
    "last": "2000-12-15T20:18:58+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-15T20:18:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Kirkus review of RttW",
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          "text": "IMO, this early review for booksellers does not include spoilers (yes, I\nam also one of the people you can put on your hate list), but if you are\nsuper-sensitive, you may want to skip it. I do not believe in \"spoiler\nspace.\" Caveat lector.\n\nRETURN TO THE WHORL. This, the third and final part of Wolfe’s Short Sun\ntrilogy, itself the sequel to a tetrology, the Book of the Long Sun,\nconcludes the saga of Patera Silk, the one-time ruler of an immense\nstarship, the Whorl, the story’s narrator, Horn, various other\ncharacters--some of whom may have become composite--and the planets that\nthe Whorl’s colonists have populated. So much is clear. For the\nremainder, Wolfe includes his usual teasing list of “proper names in the\ntext,” which helps less than not at all. Also, this time, Wolfe provides\na typically elusive recap and update guaranteed to disconcert readers\nnot already perplexed--Wolfe’s demands on his readers grow more onerous\nwith every volume. If by this point you have even a tenuous idea of what\nthe series is all about, you’ll certainly enjoy the finale. For the rest\nof us mere mortals, Wolfe’s grace and power evoke gleams of admiration\neven as we float away on a tide of indifference.\n\n-alga\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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