{"id":1244,"date":"1997-04-01T15:16:32","date_gmt":"1997-04-01T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:18:37","slug":"the-phoenix-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Phoenix Guards<\/em> by Steven Brust<\/h3>\n<p>On April 1, seven of us gathered at the FACT Office to             discuss Steven Brust&#8217;s <strong>The Phoenix Guards<\/strong>. The             book is a swashbuckling romp in the tradition of Dumas             and Sabatini, with a few minor fantasy elements thrown             in. We all enjoyed the book immensely. Brust&#8217;s prose             style was a clever and humorous pastiche of classic             adventure writing (The multiple-page discussion of             &#8220;brevity&#8221; was particularly amusing) . We loved the             book&#8217;s clever forward and afterward, supposedly written             by a fictional narrator. The book is set in the distant             past of Brust&#8217;s well-known Vlad Taltos series, so the             story definitely does not take place in our world.             Various races of people have lifespans ranging from             decades to millennia, and gender roles in society are             different. Brust&#8217;s four main characters all have             distinctive and enjoyable personalities, although it             goes without saying that each is a master fighter.             There are so many wonderful and clever touches to this             book that I can&#8217;t even begin to mention them all, so             let me repeat the recommendation of our group: &#8220;Read             This Book!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust On April 1, seven of us gathered at the FACT Office to discuss Steven Brust&#8217;s The Phoenix Guards. The book is a swashbuckling romp in the tradition of Dumas and Sabatini, with a few minor fantasy elements thrown in. We all enjoyed the book immensely. Brust&#8217;s prose style was [&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-1244","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\/1244","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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}