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It's always hard to wait for another Laundry book, and this one was a treat. I liked the misdirection at the end. Bob starts off the book by talking about how he'd failed to save his marriage, and you'd think...
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I'm quite keen on the idea of vampire burkas; I hope they make further appearances in the upcoming Alex-POV book. Not only for the obvious off-kilter comedy potential but also because there's a potential for interesting identity stuff there: what does it feel like, to a high-flying (ex?)-banker (will he still be a banker in book 7, I wonder?), who's recently joined one very weird and entirely invisible sort of minority (or two: magic users, and vampires), to "pass" as another kind of (very different, and very visible, though just as tiny) minority? It's a most interesting form of cross-dressing......
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Hmpf commented on
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Whoops, slippery not slipperly. (Bet that's not the only typo, though. I only ever seem to post here when I'm too tired to think.)...
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Hmpf commented on
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Whoops II: Janice, not Janet....
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Jay commented on
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The part where Ancient Vampire Law decreed that vampires who meet must kill each other made me think: legislating that must have been interesting. How do you get a quorum? When you've passed the law, how do you announce it? Laws are by nature social constructs. No society, no laws....
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Ithilanor commented on
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Slight continuity blip: Sgt. Howe's referred to as "Jim" in TFM (page 237), but he's called Steven in TRC....
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