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Dead Lies Dreaming

The New Management, Book 1

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Dead Lies Dreaming

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
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In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened.

A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files.

Dead Lies Dreaming presents a nightmarish vision of a Britain sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm....

©2020 Charles Stross (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Adventure Humorous Science Fiction Fiction Comedy Crime

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Good narrator, excellent characters are very enjoyable read. Would recommend reading the whole series from the beginning.

Great book in the laundry series

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Brilliant. Beautifully constructed,funny, thought provoking & gripping plot. Amazed by the excellent conclusion. More please!

Life under the new management

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I have been eagerly awaiting this release for some times. I love the Laundry files and have been interested to see how the world spans out. This didn't disappoint. All the characters are new which at first put me off. However I think by using new characters it gave a compelling twist on the world building. As usual Stross shows us this fantastical world through the eyes of people with quite ordinary wants and desires. I hope this isn't the last book in the Laundry files as I'm desperate to hear more.

A good follow up on the Laundry verse.

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Other reviewers have it about right - good to have another story in the Laundry universe. And the narrator does have a distracting tendency to put the stress on the wrong word / syllable. Mind you he’s not at the same level of irritation as Michael Jayston narrating the Bolitho books - who can barely manage a two syllable word without getting the stress wrong.

I’ve enjoyed this book more than many reviewers and I think it might be because I read book 9 of the LF, rather than listening to it (thank you other reviewers). I then listened to something completely different after listening to Book 8 - sadly the last excellent reading by Jack Hawkins.

Take a break between Laundry Files and this

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Where to start? For me this has been the most enjoyable Stross novel in a long time, which is high praise given I buy them all religiously. In the other hand, while I appreciated the fun mock-ney accents from the otherwise 'RP' narrator, there were a fair few mispronounced words which detracted a little from the storytelling, most of which were technical or genre terms.

With all of this in mind I still highly recommend this book, but I wish Hachette had paid more attention to the narration, as this small errors took me out of the story momentarily, and we pay a premium for audiobooks.

Great storytelling, somewhat distracting narration

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Okay, first of all I've religiously collected every single one of the books in the Laundry Files series and I never thought I'd like any characters more than Robert (Bob) Howard. Well how wrong I was!

This book, the first in a planned series in the Laundry Files universe, features a story that is both compelling, amusing, and disturbing in equal amounts, with characters that bring the story to life.

Another superb adventure set in the Laundry Files

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Like many others I found the narrators pronunciation and grammatical emphasis at times annoying though as I became used to this it was less distracting. There were also a few production errors where phrases were corrected or repeated and original copy left in. The story flows at a good pace with an interest cast of new characters and the odd twist.

Some flaws however not too detracting from good story

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This is a good story with a new set of characters and a different narrator to the other books. unfortunately there are a couple of strange pronunciations that are abrupt enough to jerk you out the story when listening. I can only assume that there are no 'proof listeners' involved in the recording process or they would have caught the mis-pronunciation of words like 'potentate' and 'grand guinol', I know this might seem petty but it really yanks you out of the moment when listeing.

strange pronunciations take you out of the story

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The story was good, narration mainly good, but there were some unexpected simple mispronounciations that were occasionally distracting.

Like "leads going to the battery", where "lead" rhymed with "dead", not "deed" (as it should have). These happened about every 30 mins.

Better editing please!

Still good, but slightly distracting errors

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Story was slow to start and not as engaging narration as previous books, but OK otherwise.

Not as good as the earlier Laundry Files

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