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The Bourne Supremacy
by Robert Ludlum
200 pages too long.
They say that it is very difficult to write characters that are smarter than you. This book is why. Most of the main characters in this are the tops of their fields. A couple run operations so dark, the President don’t know, or want to know, the details.
All of them are idiots in this book. This book is full of stupid decisions by people who are supposed to be ineffable. But let’s pretend they aren’t, for a moment. The book is still bad.
First, everything drags out. Things are repeated ad nauseam at every opportunity. Does something need to be explained to a new character? Well, get ready to read that entire explanation, even if we’ve already heard it. Even if we read the actual events being told. It’s exhausting.
Second, Marie is an emotional disaster, who isn’t correct about a single thing, ever (slight hyperbole, but not much). She goes from being the logical side of our main couple, to having the full emotional range of a 12 year old. Hysterical and screaming are her two states. Where’s the cold economist? Back in the previous book, I imagine.
I could keep listing problems with this book, but it’s not worth wasting even more time than I took to read it.
Easily the worst book I’ve read in the past two years.
They say that it is very difficult to write characters that are smarter than you. This book is why. Most of the main characters in this are the tops of their fields. A couple run operations so dark, the President don’t know, or want to know, the details.
All of them are idiots in this book. This book is full of stupid decisions by people who are supposed to be ineffable. But let’s pretend they aren’t, for a moment. The book is still bad.
First, everything drags out. Things are repeated ad nauseam at every opportunity. Does something need to be explained to a new character? Well, get ready to read that entire explanation, even if we’ve already heard it. Even if we read the actual events being told. It’s exhausting.
Second, Marie is an emotional disaster, who isn’t correct about a single thing, ever (slight hyperbole, but not much). She goes from being the logical side of our main couple, to having the full emotional range of a 12 year old. Hysterical and screaming are her two states. Where’s the cold economist? Back in the previous book, I imagine.
I could keep listing problems with this book, but it’s not worth wasting even more time than I took to read it.
Easily the worst book I’ve read in the past two years.