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I‘m fine with slow-paced books, but this one is like watching paint dry.

Got the audiobook and if I had tried to read it myself I would have put it down before halfway. I loved the parts about Alan and his life but just couldn‘t really getting it the detective‘s story. The ending did hit me in the feels a bit. Overall I just didn‘t love it.

And suddenly I was completely intrigued by the plot. I‘m no big mathematician, definitely not, but I liked to learn so much about Alan Turing‘s life and passion. Lagercrantz wonderfully explains complicated theories to non-experts. 😍 I loved and understood those parts even though I can‘t re-tell them.

Keeping the guys from the Government Code and Cypher School (G.C. & C.S.) apart was a bit difficult, but I was able to follow the plot, anyway.

Off topic, but I just wanted to find a nice, not-cheesy saying to write into a “Get-well-soon”-card for a dear friend …

Gosh folks, so many terrible, awful quotes and things on my German internet. 🙄 Nothing I‘d use for introduction with a good conscience. Reading this makes you feel worse instead of better, believe me.

So in the end it was like always: After hesitation I use my own words and run out of space at the end of the card. 😇

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We had a very togetherness-y, cosy Sunday gaming 🎮 “Super Mario World” and “Earth Bound”. 💑 I enjoyed this so much, seems, it was a much-needed downtime for me.

Now that I am grass widow again I continue my audiobook, I‘m very curious how the “case” Turing will be brought to an end while I prepare kohlrabi with creamy cheese for dinner. 🎧📖

I‘m not quite sure if I didn‘t know or just forgot that the book is about Alan Turing.

I like it – the bits of his biography that you get. At first I wasn‘t sure if I would also like Leonard Corell, the police assistant dealing with Turing‘s case, but meanwhile I think we get along well.

Even though it‘s hard to follow the story with the flu 😷, cough and heavy headaches.

I own this as physical copy as well but because I don‘t have the energy to concentrate on reading at the moment I am happy I found the audiobook.

The only book by Lagercrantz I know is the 4th volume of the “Millennium”-trilogy. I liked it – with this he did a good job 👏🏼, but I also wanted to know how his very own creations are.

Let the story begin …

Oddly interesting. Sort of a biography of Alan Turing as told by a fictional police officer. Very analytical, and poses high level concepts ( not all of which I understood) but thoroughly enjoyed the read. Got a bit tired with the police officer and his constant indecisiveness and judgement. But all in all a pretty good book.

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When Dr. Charles Bird muttered, "poisoning, quite clearly poisoning," Corell's mind imagined colour, a beautiful blue, as if he wanted to paint over the naked fear inside.

What Melville does for whales Lagercrantz does for the mathematical and social underpinnings of modern computing. Also, there are spies.