The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

345 pages

English language

Published Jan. 9, 2006 by Ace Books.

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978-0-441-01365-4
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Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.

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IT really is eldritch horror

I got a new Kobo eReader and needed something to break it in. What better than test of a new palmpad than to read something from the Laundry Files collection?

This is the first in the series and a lot of fun to read. If you measure fun the same way as stepping into an abyss that's darker than black yet you can feel an otherness in it. Wonderful stuff really!

Unlike me, I have gone at this series very a-linearly. I'm usually a "start at 1, move forward sequentially" kind of person, but my book club read one of the later books about 6 years ago, and every once in a while, I dip my toe back into the seeping ichor, pick one at random and go for it, cluthcing my HoG the entire way. I'm trying to remember, but I think this is heavier on some …

Review of 'The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

Too much techno-babble. Maybe there are some real-world/humor references. But I probably missed most of those (and I'm on the computer-science and physics geeky side though).

Review of 'The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

If you want a kitschy mashup of #JamesBond, #Lovecraft, and the IT Crowd (@ITCrowdSupport) , look no further than Charles Stross' (@cstross) #AtrocityArchives. It is glorious nerd popcorn.

Review of 'Le bureau des atrocités' on 'Goodreads'

Non mais quelle histoire (ou plutôt quelles histoires) !

Dans les deux récits de cet ouvrage, on suit Bob Howard, agent de la Laverie (une agence d'état luttant contre les menaces occultes), dans sa lutte contre les forces du Maâal. Des forces du mal bien curieuses, d'ailleurs, puisqu'elles ressemblent furieusement à de grands anciens tentant de rentrer dans notre monde physique par le biais de portails créés grâce à l'utilisation de mathématiques plutôt sophistiquées et d'informatique encore plus tordue. Le meilleur, dans tout ça, étant bien sûr que Bob n'est pas un agent de terrain expérimenté, mais un authentique débutant, ayant d'ailleurs toujours un poste officiel d'admin pour cette même Laverie. Ce qui ne l'empêche pas d'ailleurs, grâce à un flair certain, de se retrouver presque à chaque page dans des ennuis encore plus indépatouillables qu'à la page précédente, le moindre n'étant pas le terrifiant audit sur l'utilisation des trombones …

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