{"id":2055,"date":"2005-03-16T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2018-07-06T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T13:46:24","slug":"2055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/2055\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The American Zone<\/i> by L. Neil Smith (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0312873697\/ref=lpr_g_1\/103-5837055-3381419?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> last winter at the 80% off book store before I saw its predecessor <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/1717\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>The Probability Broach<\/i><\/a>; however, I found the first one and read it first and finally, five months later, got to this book.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a short story stuffed with Libertarian policy.  A couple of crimes occur, and the heroes interview a number of authoritarian straw men and shout them down with Libertarian reason.  Then, on page 250, a member of the villains committing the crimes comes forward and explains to them what&#8217;s going on in the plot and how to reach the climactic shootout where the bad guys die, the good guys are only injured, and an unexpected cavalry arrives.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if you eagerly bought the book, this is kinda what you hoped would happen.  However, I found the book tiresome to read without a plot, although the writing was simple and easygoing enough.  But it&#8217;s hard to overtly root for an ideology as the antagonist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this book last winter at the 80% off book store before I saw its predecessor The Probability Broach; however, I found the first one and read it first and finally, five months later, got to this book. This book is a short story stuffed with Libertarian policy. A couple of crimes occur, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20432,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/20432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}