{"id":389,"date":"2006-12-19T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:23:14","slug":"bad-prince-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Bad Prince Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Bad Prince Charlie<\/em> by John Moore<\/h3>\n<p>Nine people attended this meeting at A. T.&#8217;s           house. Our topic was <em>Bad Prince Charlie<\/em>, the           latest romantic comedy fantasy by Houston-based FACT           member John Moore. The story involves the prince of a           small impoverished country deliberately trying to do a           bad job of ruling, so that his country is absorbed by a           wealthier empire. His plan is complicated by his           father&#8217;s ghost, noble ladies, a wizard, and a           priestess. All of us had read Moore before, and all had           finished the book.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun book to read. We found the story           compulsively readable, and two of us had finished the           book in one sitting. Prince Charlie&#8217;s clueless           romantic<!--more--> pursuits of strong-willed and beautiful women           were charming. The techies in our group appreciated           Moore&#8217;s unusual \u201chumor for           engineers\u201d, which involves much more math and           science than usual for a fantasy. Clever footnotes are           used to parody other humorous fantasy authors including           Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde. One member pointed           out that the story is essentially a comedy version of           one of Shakespeare&#8217;s classic tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Since we have discussed Moore&#8217;s last three books,           some of us offered comments on the development of his           writing. We feel that his narrative voice is clear and           noticeably different from other comic fantasy writers           like Asprin and Pratchett. We would like to see him           play with the conventions of the genre more. We also           hope to see deeper characterizations, so that more of           the humor grows out character. One of the joys of our           group has been to see the evolution of new writers, and           we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing John&#8217;s           growth.<\/p>\n<p>This enjoyable book was a great choice to close out the           year. After the meeting, we had a nice dinner at Brick           Oven Pizza.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Prince Charlie by John Moore Nine people attended this meeting at A. T.&#8217;s house. Our topic was Bad Prince Charlie, the latest romantic comedy fantasy by Houston-based FACT member John Moore. The story involves the prince of a small impoverished country deliberately trying to do a bad job of ruling, so that his country [&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-389","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\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}