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[laughinggas13]

Must. Finish. Essay. That one that was due in months ago, but shhh. And then I can figure out how on earth citations work (I go through this ritual every time I write coursework. One day it'll sink in). I have such a fun evening planned, you wouldn't believe. However, if I finish this thing for tomorrow, I'm allowing myself to go read something fun

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[laughinggas13]

It is kind of threatening-looking. The first few hundred pages are all I've read, because that takes you to the end of WW2 and I lost interest after MI5 stopped being the slightly disreputable newcomer, but I can imagine that for someone more into spies-and-such than me (I am, but I'm more interested in individuals than organisations) it'd be very interesting. There are some amazing anecdotes in there.

[laughinggas13]

I was about to say 'I like spies too!' and then I realised that, actually, I know very little about any proper spies. I seem to have ended up getting really into the behind-the-scenes stuff, like Bletchley Park, and only hearing of the real spies as they relate to all that sort of thing. Which probably has something to do with my slightly embarrassing thing for Alan Turing, but hey, at least it's an educational interest, right?

I never watched Spooks. :( It was one of those shows I missed the first episode and never got round to catching up on.

I do indeed have AIM (though I always forget to sign in). My username's BasicallyRun.

[tweedymcgee]

Have you heard of this new-ish spy book, Operation Mincemeat? It's about an unbelievable British spy caper involving the corpse of a fake military officer that was deliberately allowed to fall into German hands

[laughinggas13]

I think I've heard of Operation Mincemeat in other books, but I really want to read about it in more detail. *adds to booklist*

Yeees, Turing. *resists urge to draw little hearts* He crops up quite a bit in The Most Human Human, actually, given the book is very much concerned with beating the Turing test.

[laughinggas13]

What I read of it I enjoyed. Occasionally it gets a little bogged down in statistics and numbers, but on the whole it's really interesting - it's made up of a lot of anecdotes about missions and suchlike all linked together under a general history. I'm quite tempted to finish it before returning it to the library.

\o/ Thank you from the future! It might even arrive in time now - my teacher was quite astonishingly efficient about it, although I think that was mainly surprise that anyone had entered at all.