/lit/ - Literature

>>11733003
You have to go back.

>>11733034
Go back to sucking dick in the public toilet.

>>11733001
They really don't.

>>11733068
What kind of cult? There are so many to choose from.

>>11415421
I am sorry anon, I completely forgot about answering you.

>One of the reviews describes it as a mix between Lovecraft and Dilbert.
That's not exactly true. There is this humorous thread about the insanity of working for a government agency dealing with insanity causing entities but it's a small part of the book.
Honestly I loved the first book in the Laundry series. The thing is that the book is very Lovecraftian but from a modern, military-industrial complex kind of view. We are not talking about a bunch of half-mad academics trying to stop the end of the world. We are talking about government agencies spending billions trying to weaponize pretty much every horror Lovercraft came up. In that regard, the novel is unique. It has a lot of sci-fi, a lot of Lovecraft, nazi occult groups, government employed necromancers, etc.
You could try A Colder War for size. It's a novelette, written by Stross, in which both sides of the Cold War start trying to weaponize cosmic horrors.
You can read it here - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm..

I'll leave you with this little snippet:
"Your family could still be alive, you know.''

He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''

The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.''"