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psypherpunk 's review for:
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
Ah, the ol' amnesia trick; a tried and true method for engaging the readers as the protagonists' journey runs parallel to their own. Add to that some espionage, international destinations and some truly thrilling, lengthy passages about banking procedures and you have a riveting read, right? Well, almost...
I'm laying the blame for my rather mediocre appraisal at Ludlum's style. His ideas are interesting enough but his prose is just annoying. His bizarre quasi-stream-of-consciousness style gets more than a little jarring very quickly. Exclamations! Sentence fragments. Phrases. Irritating. Then there's our hero; the chamelon, the amnesiac, the petulant idiot. His preferred method for getting pretty much anything done is to simply shout at people until it's over or alternatively, just get shot, turning him from a tortured hero into a blithering belligerent.
I'm laying the blame for my rather mediocre appraisal at Ludlum's style. His ideas are interesting enough but his prose is just annoying. His bizarre quasi-stream-of-consciousness style gets more than a little jarring very quickly. Exclamations! Sentence fragments. Phrases. Irritating. Then there's our hero; the chamelon, the amnesiac, the petulant idiot. His preferred method for getting pretty much anything done is to simply shout at people until it's over or alternatively, just get shot, turning him from a tortured hero into a blithering belligerent.