Well the third in the "Laundry Files" series. I always vacillate on how to rate these. I mean they should almost have their own shelf(elves) titled "horror sort of" or "urban fantasy sort of". These are largely tongue in cheek novels played for comedy but they are told with an underlying serious tone. They aren't really satire nor are they parody as they aren't making fun of the genres. They go for a "kind of" (or "sort of") absurdest tone with a narrator relating the events that surround a "sec...

Weirdly humorous.World: The world building is solid, there is a lot of it here and there are bits of info dumping here and there but the world is strange and weird that it makes it interesting. Also the dry and nonchalant way in which Bob introduces us to the world makes for a very interesting read. The calls to Lovecraft and the lore is great and really makes this a series I enjoy.Story: The story is good, it reminds me of the Rook in it's matter a fact way in which it tells of horrors cosmic a...

***2018 Summer of Spies*** 3.5 stars—the best one of the Laundry Files that I’ve read so far.Perhaps because we’re into historical references that I’ve actually lived through. Younger folk may roll their eyes at all the Cold War references in this volume the way I rolled mine during all the WWII/Nazi references in the first book of the series.There’s much less computer jargon in this third novel, for which I was thankful. Bob may be a computation demonologist, but he talks more like a regular

**edited 12/30/13Have you ever seen the xkcd comic about regular expressions? (If you don't read xkcd, you probably won't enjoy this book, so I'd advise skipping this review.)Basically, the plot of The Fuller Memorandum is this comic strip, but in novel form and with an invasion of Lovecraftian beasties....Due to my disapproval of GR's new and highly subjective review deletion policy, I am no longer posting full reviews here.The rest of this review can be found on Booklikes.

It’s safe to say that the Laundry Files is my favourite of Charles Stross’ series. It’s starting to rank up there with the Dresden Files as far as urban fantasy goes. The two series have a lot in common: each book is a self-contained, madcap thriller with supernatural elements; while overall, the series mythology continues to grow and head towards some kind of apocalyptic climax.In The Fuller Memorandum, Bob and Mo become tangled up in a plot by some cultists to steal Teapot, also known as the E...

You will want to have read the first two Laundry novels—The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue—before picking up this third excursion into the eldritch horror of higher mathematics and computational conjuring. And I do mean that you will want to have read them, and in order; not only do those earlier works contain essential background, they're also cracking good yarns, and the world of the Laundry is one of the all-around neatest conceits I've ever run across.Charles Stross hits all the r...

[MINOR SPOILERS]In his Laundry Files series, Charles Stross has fun sending raw lumps of genre trope through his own literary Fun Factory. What extrudes out the other end is a tentacular tangle of homage comprising the pulpy horror of Lovecraft, the world-weary existentialism of the Cold War British espionage novel, and the cynicism and techie in-jokes of Simon Travaglia's "Bastard Operator From Hell" stories. The Laundry Files detail the exploits of one Bob Howard, network sysadmin, field opera...

Re-read 3/27/18:Buddy reads, total fascination with the storyline and reading this multiple times and STILL getting over-enthusiastic about the orgy of nerdy Lovecraftian bureaucracy? Maybe it's just right for me and I've grown into it so much that I can't destiny disentangle myself any longer. :)Or perhaps I'm just coming to deeply appreciate this series even more than I did when I first read them. It's all connected, man! :) So I'm upping a star. :)I'll try not to spoil here, but the fact is.....

The timeline in this books seems to have moved forward a few years from the first two books in the series. Bob is described as having worked for the Laundry for 8 years and I am sure he only just started in the first book. Overall I enjoyed the continued humor of the series. But in this one there was some much darker horror elements. These do fit with the Cthulhu portion of the background but for me seemed disjointed from the humor.I did not like this third installment as much as the previous tw...

I really enjoy this series, but it sometimes seems it can be a little TOO hectic, making it harder to buy into. Luckily, this entry of the series had a bit of a slower start, as it took the laundry a bit to figure out what was actually going on.Then the boss goes missing, it's clear there is a mole in the office, and Bob and Mo need to hurry and figure some things out before they are turned into Cthulu sacrifices....but where to start?Super enjoyable read!

Beware the manager who treats you well; she probably wants to use you as a vessel for an alien from beyond space-time...

Bob Howard is having a rough week. His boss has ordered him out to a distant airfield to deal with a supernatural containment issue and in the course of the exorcism, things go very awry. Placed on administrative leave, he’d be at loose ends–except that his boss Angleton gave him an assignment, deputized him for top-secret project BLOODY BARON and has subsequently disappeared. Within short order, his wife Mo is sent on a quick mission-CLUB ZERO–only to return shell-shocked. Even worse, the Russi...

Notes:Nice mix of humor laced into the general choas. I liked the first half more than the wrap up. It's great that Bob is a computer nerd and his lady-love is the hero with a violin. =)

I just can’t get enough of THE LAUNDRY FILES. This series has almost everything I want in an urban SFF adventure — an intelligent hero with a wry sense of humor and a great voice; an eclectic supporting cast; a fast pace with lots of action and plot twists; a cool mix of fantasy and science fiction; occasionally odd (and interesting) structural choices; a reverence for geek culture; and a smattering of computer science, mathematics, quantum physics and neuroscience. And Lovecraft. I love it.In T...

4.5 starsTeapot, meet ... teacup? *lol*This is the third in the Laundry Files books and although it didn't have as many laugh-out-loud moments as the last, I actually liked this more. But more about that later.First, the summary:Bob Howard is still working for that elusive branch of the British government's agencies that deal with the occult. What was that saying? Any sufficiently advanced technology is like magic? Yeah, well.This book plays three years after the last and six years after the fir...

3.5The book took its sweet time to grab my attention properly. No idea why. Only after reading it (or, to be honest, somewhere in the last third) did I realize how insane and crazy good The Fuller Memorandum is. It is essentially a report on the Fuller Memorandum situation (an understatement). As usual, Bob has to read a lot of old reports on whatever is relevant at the moment. The thing is, there is no actual case this time, so it takes time to move forward. More than half of the book Bob stumb...

I decided to give The Laundry series another try after being gravely disappointed with The Jennifer Morgue. I was intrigued in The Atrocity Archives by the possibilities of a Lovecraftian spy agency, particularly since I was a huge fan of Delta Green, but The Jennifer Morgue's parody of James Bond was shallow and uninteresting. The Fuller Memorandum, by contrast, is a return to form and I appreciate it. It takes the premise of a Lovecraftian threat to the world seriously while simultaneously al

This was a solid entry in The Laundry Files series but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first two. The Cold War style of espionage didn't really interest me and this book has A LOT of that. However I did like it and will definitely continue with the series. This is a very unique universe where Lovecraftian Elder Gods threaten to invade our reality and it's the Laundry's job to make sure that doesn't happen. Since I have a degree in Math I particularly like the idea that magic is based on computa...

4.5 StarsAwesome science fiction thriller / horror / mystery. I loved the start of this series it is tailor made to my likes. This is my first Stross novel even though he has been on my to read list for a very long time.Great characters.Great world.Great science fiction.Lovecraft!Gadgets.And more.I really liked it.This is was a great read.

Good paranormal thriller, leaning toward horror as Bob learns an awful lot about his boss after his boss goes missing. And then he has to deal with fanatical Elder Gods' cultists, leading to Bob's Very Bad, No Good, Completely Horrific Day.