{"id":1284,"date":"1998-01-06T16:35:15","date_gmt":"1998-01-06T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:35:42","slug":"freedom-and-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Freedom and Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Freedom and Necessity<\/em> by             Steven Brust &amp; Emma Bull<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Shirley Crossland,             Debbie Hodgkinson, Karen Meschke, Willie Siros, Lori             Wolf<\/p>\n<p><em>Freedom and Necessity<\/em> is a             19<sup>th<\/sup>-century tale of political intrigue and             secret societies in Europe. The story is told through a             series of letters and newspaper articles, with no             traditional narrative. Our group&#8217;s opinions were             sharply divided on this book. I personally found the             unusual narrative style impenetrable; the letters were             boring, there was little discernable plot, and once I             figured out that there was no speculative element I             gave up on reading it. The rest of the group, who&#8217;d             finished the book, loved it! Positive comments included             &#8220;interesting philosophical discussions,&#8221; &#8220;seems like a             Victorian novel&#8221;, &#8220;fascinating strong-willed female             characters,&#8221;, &#8220;swell historical romance,&#8221; and             &#8220;interesting insights into Prussian history.&#8221;             Obviously, tastes vary.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust &amp; Emma Bull Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Shirley Crossland, Debbie Hodgkinson, Karen Meschke, Willie Siros, Lori Wolf Freedom and Necessity is a 19th-century tale of political intrigue and secret societies in Europe. The story is told through a series of letters and newspaper articles, with no traditional narrative. [&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-1284","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\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}