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  "thread": {
    "id": 1344,
    "subject": "Still digesting the series",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-11T15:41:48+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-11T15:41:48+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0586@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Endymion9",
        "address": "endymion9 at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T15:41:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Still digesting the series",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "In reading the various points of view expressed and upon having had a few\nweeks to digest the series I find\n\n1.  I still enjoyed the journey and the sights I was shown as I usually do\nin a Wolfe novel.\n\n2.  I agree with most of alga's points in her last post and if those loose\nends had been tied up I would rate this series as one of the best 5 I've\never read instead of just rating it \"good.\"\n\nI find I have no desire to reread this series (I've read OBW twice, IGJ\ntwice and RttW once) because I have no faith that I would find more answers.\nWhere as I have read TBOTNS three times and am itching for a fourth.\nHeck!   I think I would probably even rather retackle Castleview, the most\nconfusing Wolfe novel I've read yet (3 times and still lost), than try to\ndig out answers to this series.\n\nNow for those that love frustration I just finished Jonathan Carroll's \"The\nWooden Sea\" and before that read \"The Marriage of Sticks.\"  He seems to have\ncaught Wolfe disease (grin).   I understood very little and saw a lot of the\nsame tricks.  Devices thrown in and made to seem very important and never\nexplained, but once again I enjoyed the characters and the journey even if I\ndon't know where I went.\n\n\nDennis/Endy\nhttp://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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