{"id":1324,"date":"1997-02-18T16:57:36","date_gmt":"1997-02-18T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:58:45","slug":"door-number-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Door Number Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Door Number Three<\/em> by Patrick O&#8217;Leary<\/h3>\n<p>Our February 18 book, Patrick O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s <strong>Door Number             Three<\/strong>, was chosen in an unusual manner. Last summer             at the WorldCon in LA, I kept bumping into this strange             fellow at nearly every program item I attended (panel,             reading, signing, kaffeeklatsch, you name it). We             finally introduced ourselves, and it turned out that             the guy&#8217;s name was Patrick O&#8217;Leary, his first novel had             just been published, and he was attending his first             WorldCon. Patrick seemed to be a nice guy, and he and I             obviously shared many of the same tastes, so I lobbied             for the Reading Group to read his book.<\/p>\n<p>Six folks showed up for the discussion of <strong>Door             Number Three.<\/strong> The plot is very intricate and is             best enjoyed if you don&#8217;t know much in advance, but I             will mention a few elements: Catholicism, time travel,             psychology, Esther Williams,<!--more--> jello, <em>The Grateful             Dead<\/em>, and nuclear holocaust. We all liked the book             and admired the author&#8217;s ambitious plot, but some felt             the story got too confusing toward the end. As one             person put it, &#8220;he probably didn&#8217;t think he was writing             science fiction when he <em>started<\/em> the book&#8230;&#8221; We             particularly admired O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s skill with             characterization, and felt that he embued all his             characters with interesting personalities. We all saw             why Willie Siros dubbed this book the &#8220;best first novel             of 1995.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Door Number Three by Patrick O&#8217;Leary Our February 18 book, Patrick O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s Door Number Three, was chosen in an unusual manner. Last summer at the WorldCon in LA, I kept bumping into this strange fellow at nearly every program item I attended (panel, reading, signing, kaffeeklatsch, you name it). We finally introduced ourselves, and it [&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-1324","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\/1324","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=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}