{"id":1033,"date":"2001-02-06T03:27:26","date_gmt":"2001-02-06T03:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2012-04-25T03:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:28:39","slug":"the-anubis-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"The Anubis Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Anubis Gates<\/em> by Tim             Powers<\/h3>\n<p>Eighteen people showed up for this discussion, which             made it our largest crowd ever. One person was a             first-time participant. The book discussed, <em>The             Anubis Gates<\/em>, is a complicated fantasy featuring             time travel, classical poets, ancient Egypt,             werewolves, body swapping, and Beatles music. Although             it was originally published in 1983, this novel had             been out of print for several years until recently,             making it a new book to many of us. Our attendees             included several folks who read the book when it first             came out, and we also had a person who was born the             year the book was published.<\/p>\n<p>Every one of us finished the book, and we found a lot             of different things to like about it. Many people liked             the complex, involving story with its many plot             threads. One person empathized with the protagonist, a             college English professor, so much that she reported             jumping up and down and yelling at him to &#8220;watch out&#8221;             at particularly tense moments. Many of us liked the             cool Medieval and <!--more-->Egyptian magic, and we were pleased             when a member of our group who&#8217;d studied magic             extensively said that the research in the book was             &#8220;impeccable.&#8221; We thought the writing style of this book             was very involving, and we liked the way Powers handled             foreshadowing. When it was mentioned that Tim Powers             had a master&#8217;s degree in romantic poetry, several of us             felt that this book was an excellent use of an advanced             degree.<\/p>\n<p>No one had anything bad to say about this book. We all             thought <em>The Anubis Gates<\/em> was a compulsively             readable book full of interesting ideas, clever             writing, and enjoyable characters.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Eighteen people showed up for this discussion, which made it our largest crowd ever. One person was a first-time participant. The book discussed, The Anubis Gates, is a complicated fantasy featuring time travel, classical poets, ancient Egypt, werewolves, body swapping, and Beatles music. Although it was originally published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}