A potentially cool idea that Stross just doesn't pull off. The incompetent shrew club muscling in on the old boys club was also pretty tiresome. Especially since it was the basis of much of the underlying plot. And Mo may be smart but she's about as useless as Kira, the love interest from Hard to be...
I've actually attempted to read(listen to) this book a couple of different times, and this time it stuck. Finally. I've heard such great things about this series, and Gideon Emery does a fantastic job of narrating.This started off really dry -- which it's kind of intended to, given the bureaucratic ...
I must start with a warning: this book is definitely not for everyone. Also, be aware that it contains two stories, the second one being a novelette, The Concrete Jungle (which I might have liked slightly more than the novel itself, perhaps because by then I had a stronger grasp on the world develop...
What if solving really complicated math problems actually opened portals to other universes. Or summoned things from them to here? And considering the calculation powers of computers, what if that put all the lovecraftian horrors of the multiverse just a few lines of code away? What if indeed. Ob...
Dudes, I finally did it! I finally read a Charles Stross novel that didn't leave me feeling vaguely disappointed that I didn't enjoy it more! Apparently this is the series for me, of his work. So far. I should have guessed. I may not be into Cthulhu as a general rule, but Cthulhu plus bureaucracy? B...
Atrocity Archives: Laundry Files Series, Book 1 by Charles Stross Add a few dungeon dimension critters, a bit of Hitler on the moon, and (worst of all) an acre of bureaucratic red tape to this comic and you've got the Atrocity Archives.If you dabble in computer science, you probably already know tha...
There is a list floating around Tumblr of Bioware voice actors who have narrated audiobooks. Having fallen in love with Fenris’ voice in Dragon Age II, I decided that The Atrocity Archives, read by Gideon Emery, was a necessary listen from Audible. Not that I blindly listen to an audiobook just beca...
Imagine that mathematics and magic are the same thing. Also imagine that all those people in madhouses in Lovecraft, H.P. stories are right and there are other universes where ancient malevolent entities are just waiting for an invitation to visit for a quick massacre of humanity before breakfast......
This is the second time I'll be reading the Laundry Files to get to the new stuff I haven't. It has so many great aspects that bring those big smiles on my face, namely: Cthulhu hacking spy comedy. The first time I read it, I didn't realize these novels were all based individually on the style of ...
I read the Jennifer Morgue last year and was blown away. I had the opportunity to pick up this, the first book of the story-line and was excited to jump in.I actually found this a little more tedious, and a little less fun than the Jennifer Morgue. In fact, around two-thirds of the way trough the bo...
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