The Fuller Memorandum

A Laundry Files Novel

By: Charles Stross

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross is renowned for his cutting-edge science fiction. This third entry in his “edgy … spoof of Cold War spy thrillers” (Booklist) finds covert agent Bob Howard learning about a top-secret dossier that vanishes with his boss. Determined to discover the contents of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient demons, and apostles of a hideous cult planning to raise the Eater of Souls from the undead.

©2010 Charles Stross (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

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Book- The Fuller Memorandum
Author- Charles Stross
Voice- Gideon Emery
Book- ~$8 http://www.amazon.com/Fuller-Memorandum-Laundry-Files-Novel/dp/044102050X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420247010&sr=1-1&keywords=the+fuller+memorandum
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TL; DR- Sit down and learn about the Laundry. 93%

Basics-Bob Howard has been pulling a few too many hours at the Laundry. He makes a rookery mistakes that shouldn't happen, and now is sent out on personal leave after someone dies. However, strange cults across the world never take personal leave. Can Bob survive an attack on the Laundry, keep his sanity, and learn more about some ancient Laundry secrets?

Characters- Bob's really Bob in this one. Moe is Moe, and you also get to learn a bunch more about the other characters in the Laundry with this one. Based on the previous books, every character is well described for the new readers, and every character stays in character all the way through this book. Excellently done. 5/5

Setting- I have never been to England and much less to London. But, Stross does a great job of describing the city and making me see places and geography in my head. It almost makes me want to go and see if I could track Bob through the city and see the hidden sights Bob describes. 5/5

Story-The Laundry is a book series about middle management always screwing with the people who actually get the work done. However, I can't see how anyone might get their work done when they have to account for everything even when they know the penalty for such actions is not being able to get fired? I'm complaining a bit, but I don't enjoy the amount of possible threats from inside the Landry. That kinds of gets a bit boring. What I did enjoy was the amount you get to learn about the history of the laundry. Stross does an excellent job of telling bits of Landry and character history over the course of the novel. I loved that even if I didn't enjoy the internal threats and bureaucracy as much. 4/5

Summary-I really like the Laundry novels. Stross does an excellent job of bringing Cthulhu mythos to the masses while still being true to its roots. I do bet a bit bored with the inter-Laundry problems, but this one is a great read. I got to learn a bunch about the Laundry and its members. This was done in some text dumps, but it was done in a smart way throughout the book. If it's at least as good as this one, I can't wait to pick up the next one! 93%.

Audiobook Extra- Gideon Emery is Bob. And, he also does a great female voice with an accent as Moe is in this novel a lot. Well done! 5/5

I love these books

I love this series, I love the narrator, I love the characters, I love everything about these books. Eventually, I will have them all read.

The Fuller Memorandum

It's always a treat when a new Laundry novel comes out, and this is my own favorite of the series so far. Murky, Anthony Price-ish, satirical. Things happen.

Gideon Emery is just very good at what he does in general, and in the Laundry books in particular. He puts himself at the service of the story, and reads the technical stuff in an entirely natural way, as if he understands it, and he understands the humor as well. It's a good transparent style, which takes some art, and you think that yes, that's Bob Howard, all right, though a slightly golden-voiced version of him. You also think that about Mo. Emery is good at women's voices, without straining at it, and doesn't seem to think of women as a different species.

Unique and fun listen

This clever author created a paranormal James Bond! International intrigue, love, technology, and zombies... Delivered with expert narration. I love this series

Great read! Enchanting listen!

I own this book in hard, soft, and audio! Nuff' Said! Incredible story, incredible series!

scary people

bob is scary mo is scary and angleton well het is scary in a whole new way

Thoroughly enjoyable

Gideon Emory is a marvelous narrator. His character voices, performed with various British accents, are a pleasure to listen to.

I felt the plot flag a bit here and there, with an occasional plot hole, but overall this is an immensely worthy entry in the laundry series.

Hilarious yet riveting techno Cthulhu drama

This series is highly entertaining. It is sarcastic as hell and drops Cthulhu myth is at a rate approaching Derleth but manages to be... and I feel silly saying this... riveting.

Lovecraft fans will appreciate the technological take on the occult. Technologists will appreciate the IT humor and the occasional Vax VMS. Others might find this is the series that pulls them into worship of The Old Ones.

I also love the narrator, his wry British accent carries the day. Five stars across the board. Bravo!

Intensity value off the charts...

While I don't think this third part of the Laundry Files series was quite as fun to read as the second, the intensity was off the charts compared to either of its predecessors. This one culminated in some major developments that still have me reeling. Fear not, no spoilers here, except for the said developments (and the to be expected reeling). Fine work, all around. My hat is off to Charles Stross. Should another Laundry book come to be, I will be on it like, well, supernatural entities on clueless victims...

Better than expected

Satirical take on covert operations, the occult and technology in place of potions, wands, and incantations. Entertaining and different. Recommended.