{"id":1049,"date":"2000-11-21T05:49:26","date_gmt":"2000-11-21T05:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2012-04-25T05:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T05:50:36","slug":"dark-cities-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Dark Cities Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Dark Cities Underground<\/em> by Lisa             Goldstein<\/h3>\n<p>Eleven people attended this meeting, at which we             discussed Lisa Goldstein&#8217;s recent novel and chose new             books. <em>Dark Cities Underground<\/em> is a urban             fantasy novel involving trains, Egyptian gods, and             children&#8217;s books and their authors.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us liked this book a lot. We found the             characterization of the children&#8217;s author and her son,             who was the protagonist of her books, to be believable.             Goldstein&#8217;s prose was involving and a joy to read,             reminding several of us of Jonathan Carroll&#8217;s work. The             book was full of great archetypes and images             (dog-headed men, not-so-jolly green giants, a woman             made of rain) that<!--more--> appealed to us. The cool imagery             reminded us of Philip Pullman&#8217;s <em>The Golden             Compass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone was thrilled with the book. One person             found the writing sloppy and felt that the characters             committed unbelievable actions. She liked the basic             concept of this book, but thought that a better book             could have been written from its outline. A couple of             people found the book&#8217;s villain to be a letdown. And             several people admitted that since characters travel             all over the world in this book, a map might have been             helpful.<\/p>\n<p>In general we concluded that <em>Dark Cities             Underground<\/em> is a thoughtful novel with many rich             images and a great sense of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting we chose several new books             for the reading list: <em>There and Back Again<\/em> by             Pat Murphy, <em>The Anubis Gates<\/em> by Tim Powers,             <em>Half Life<\/em> by Hal Clement, <em>A Civil             Campaign<\/em> by Lois McMaster Bujold, <em>The Marriage             of Sticks<\/em> by Jonathan Carroll, and <em>The Road to             Mars<\/em> by Eric Idle.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein Eleven people attended this meeting, at which we discussed Lisa Goldstein&#8217;s recent novel and chose new books. Dark Cities Underground is a urban fantasy novel involving trains, Egyptian gods, and children&#8217;s books and their authors. Most of us liked this book a lot. We found the characterization of the [&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-1049","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\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}