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BL: The Atrocity Archive (Stross, Charles)

posted by [personal profile] kgbooklog at 08:29pm on 30/08/2007 under , ,
Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive
Golden Griffin (2001) ISBN: 1-930846-25-8
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This novel begins the Laundry series, about a secret British agency that uses high tech to protect us from eldritch horrors. I just couldn't get interested in the setting or characters, and had WSOD issues with the narrator telling us at length about how top secret all this is, and yet he's clearly addressing his remarks to someone who isn't cleared for this information.

Next Book: Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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posted by [identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com at 05:23pm on 31/08/2007
"WSOD"?
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posted by [identity profile] kgbooklog.livejournal.com at 06:56pm on 31/08/2007
"willing suspension of disbelief"
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posted by [identity profile] le-trombone.livejournal.com at 07:34pm on 31/08/2007
Yeah, me too. It read too much like a badly constructed puzzle story - the solution is only as good as the set-up, and I wasn't pleased with the set-up.
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posted by (anonymous) at 01:40pm on 09/09/2007
Storss have two big problem: poor writing stile and inability to tie up plot ends. It could be forgiven for first book, but it doesn't getting any better in his later work.
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