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The President has an Academy Award and Who’s the Prime Minister of England?

The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross

May 21, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So it turns out that you can have a decent Laundry Files novel without Bob Howard as central figure; The Labyrinth Index follows Bob’s colleague Mhari Murphy who was turned into a vampire in a previous novel (one I haven’t read) thanks to a computer program/advanced math/parasite infection thing. It turns out that England is now under the control of new Prime Minister N’yar Lat-Hotep, although he doesn’t use that name with the general public. Mhari though being formerly of the Laundry which now goes […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adventure, charles stross, Charles Sttross, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, spy, the labyrinth index

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adventure, charles stross, Charles Sttross, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, spy, the labyrinth index ·
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Night of the Living Hello Kitty Princess Demon-Deity

Escape From Yokai Land by Charles Stross

May 21, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had Charles Stross’ Laundry Files series in my TBR for a while; got the first one on Kindle sale a while back; it was pretty good. Grabbed 3 more from the library, although not quite in sequence. It turns out that you can read this series out of order and it will still mostly make sense. There may be references to someone dies or got married or is in another job or a certain probably evil who knows what is back, but how that […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, charles stross, Escape from Yokai Land, folklore, horror, Laundry Files, supernatural

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, charles stross, Escape from Yokai Land, folklore, horror, Laundry Files, supernatural ·
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If you need an entire glossary of acronyms and jargon, you may have a little problem

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

April 3, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files 1) is one of those titles that just kept popping up on my radar, and then when it went on Kindle sale I figured, that was the time. The premise is a cross between Office Space and X-Files, kind of like a supernatural NCIS kind of way. Our protagonist is Bob Howard, an IT done of the corporate variety on the surface, but who in reality works for a secret government agency specializing in protection against magic and the supernatural […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: charles stross, government agent, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, The Atrocity Archives

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: charles stross, government agent, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, The Atrocity Archives ·
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Once, twice, and then I gave up

Dune by Frank Herbert

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

January 29, 2022 by carmelpie 3 Comments

I’ve watched the newest version of Dune a couple of times now and, so far, I’m enjoying it. I contemplated going back and finishing the book but, considering it has been years since I started reading it, it would make the most sense to start again from the beginning. If you have to talk yourself into reading something just to convince yourself “but this time, it will be worth it,” then maybe this book isn’t for you. Along with Dune, I’ve listed a few other […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: charles stross, DNF, Frank Herbert, Iain M. Banks, reread, Stephen King

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: charles stross, DNF, Frank Herbert, Iain M. Banks, reread, Stephen King ·
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Episode 1-44: Overstuffed

Universal Harvester, The Labyrinth Index, The Three Secret Cities, Dark Sacred Night, Fooling Houdini, Target: Alex Cross, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, The Beast of Barcroft, Northwoods, Bill the Galactic Hero by John Darnielle, Charles Stross, Matthew Reilly, Michael Connelly, Alex Stone, James Patterson, Thomas Mullen, Bill Schweigart, Harry Harrison

November 29, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/11/30/episode-1-44-overstuffed/ Wherein I review: 161. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle 162, The Labyrinth Index (Library Files #9) by Charles Stross 163. The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr. #5) by Matthew Reilly 164. Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch #21, Renee Ballard #2) by Michael Connelly 165. Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone 166. Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross #26) by James Patterson 167. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen 168. The Beast of Barcroft (Fatal Folklore Trilogy #1) by Bill Schweigart 169. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Alex Cross, alex stone, bill schweigart, bill the galactic hero, bosch and ballard, charles stross, dark sacred night, fatal folklore trilogy, fooling houdini, Harry Harrison, jack west Jr, James Patterson, John Darnielle, killing my kindle, matthew reilly, Michael Connelly, northwoods, podcast, target: alex cross, the beast of barcroft, the labyrinth index, the library files, the many deaths of the firefly brothers, thomas mullen, three secret cities, Universal Harvester

prisco's CBR10 Review No:170 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Alex Cross, alex stone, bill schweigart, bill the galactic hero, bosch and ballard, charles stross, dark sacred night, fatal folklore trilogy, fooling houdini, Harry Harrison, jack west Jr, James Patterson, John Darnielle, killing my kindle, matthew reilly, Michael Connelly, northwoods, podcast, target: alex cross, the beast of barcroft, the labyrinth index, the library files, the many deaths of the firefly brothers, thomas mullen, three secret cities, Universal Harvester ·
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Cleaning up Cthulu

The Atrocity Archives by Charlie Stross

January 28, 2017 by BookNinja Leave a Comment

The Laundry Files had been recommended to me as a series before, and this time it was a book shop employee pushing them, so I picked it up. The book took me about two weeks to read. I carried it to and from work, and always found a reason to read something else. (Though the news these days is very distracting..) Normally I read much faster than that! The book is a mix of an old school spy novel (he describes his influences as Len […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: charles stross

BookNinja's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Horror · Tags: charles stross ·
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