{"id":193,"date":"2009-04-09T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","slug":"go-go-girls-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse <\/em>by Victor Gischler<\/h3>\n<p>Nine people attended this discussion at A. T.\u2019s house.\u00a0 Our topic was <em>Go-Girl Girls of the Apocalypse<\/em>,  the first speculative fiction  novel by established mystery writer  Victor Gischler. One of us had read  Gischler\u2019s work before. All of us  started the book, and six finished it.<\/p>\n<p>We thought this book had several clever ideas about what   might happen after society falls. One reader felt the lap dances and  beer  drinking at the end of the<!--more--> world were believable. Another liked  the names for  generic liquor. Several of us liked the scenes of Prius  racing in the mountains.  The franchise apocalypse stores were  entertaining. And most of us were amused  by the references to Jane  Fonda and Ted Turner.<\/p>\n<p>We all thought the author\u2019s prose style was easy to read.   One member said she plans to read Gischler\u2019s mysteries because she liked  the  style so much. Another complained that the book was written at too  young of a  reading level.<\/p>\n<p>There were complaints. \u00a0One person did not believe this  book\u2019s  scenario where people ran out of bullets before condoms in rural  Tennessee.  Others felt the ending was too downbeat.\u00a0  And many of us  felt this story compared unfavorably to earlier books and  movies that  handled similar material, including <em>Through Darkest America, Postman<\/em>, and <em>Mad Max<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting, two members of the group compared   their recently-acquired Kindles. Afterward, several of us had a nice  dinner at  Mongolian Grille.<br \/>\n<em>&#8212;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler Nine people attended this discussion at A. T.\u2019s house.\u00a0 Our topic was Go-Girl Girls of the Apocalypse, the first speculative fiction novel by established mystery writer Victor Gischler. One of us had read Gischler\u2019s work before. All of us started the book, and six finished it. We [&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-193","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\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}