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varjohaltia I follow Charles Stross on social media. He seems like a really cool guy. The Laundry Files looks like a series I should love.
Alas, the novel really isn't good. There's a clear nostalgia vibe in the old technobabble, but Stross throws so much random geek vocabulary at the reader that it's really distracting, irrelevant and overwhelming, and in some cases not even particularly believable if you happened to be in the industry in the day the book takes place in.
The work reads really like geek fanfiction. I know a young me getting into tech would've been all over this. The more adult me is really upset about how the Hot Girl (tm) is treated, how the protagonist really kind of just bumbles through life, and how the novel itself is very bizarrely paced. It felt like two books glued together, with the end cut off.
It doesn't end on a cliffhanger, but it ends very abruptly in a less than satisfactory fashion.
Alas, the novel really isn't good. There's a clear nostalgia vibe in the old technobabble, but Stross throws so much random geek vocabulary at the reader that it's really distracting, irrelevant and overwhelming, and in some cases not even particularly believable if you happened to be in the industry in the day the book takes place in.
The work reads really like geek fanfiction. I know a young me getting into tech would've been all over this. The more adult me is really upset about how the Hot Girl (tm) is treated, how the protagonist really kind of just bumbles through life, and how the novel itself is very bizarrely paced. It felt like two books glued together, with the end cut off.
It doesn't end on a cliffhanger, but it ends very abruptly in a less than satisfactory fashion.
