The Bourne Supremacy
by Robert Ludlum
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Read in June, 2008
I, like many others, was first introduced to the character of Jason Bourne through the 2002 version of The Bourne Identity. Recently finding myself in the mood for spy thrillers, I picked up Ludlum's novel of the same name and found it to be a fairly compelling piece of suspenseful fluff. Since the first book left one of the major plot elements unresolved, I decided to immediately read the next book. Unfortunately, The Bourne Supremacy did not resolve that particular storyline. (It...more
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Read in November, 2007
Having taken a much-needed break from my heavier hitters after teaching my memoir class, I decided to pick up volume 2 of the Bournes, the first of which I'd found surprisingly enjoyable. The Supremacy, which bears no resemblance to the movie, is pretty bad. I stuck with it for all 600+ pages, but it just got more and more unbelievable. The plotline itself is far-fetched--more far-fetched than the plotline of the first Bourne. However, it did yield this hilariously Shatner-ian piece of dialogue:...more
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Read in February, 2008
Having seen and loving the Bourne movies, I decided to revisit the books I read almost 10 years ago. There is much I didn't remember about the books. I knew that the movies did not follow the books even a little but I had forgotten how much more was in the books.
Jason Bourne, or David Webb (depending on the situation he's in) is so much more in the books. He is not only the assassin who had forgotten who he was, but he is the best at what he does because he was the best in a gurellia oper...more
Jason Bourne, or David Webb (depending on the situation he's in) is so much more in the books. He is not only the assassin who had forgotten who he was, but he is the best at what he does because he was the best in a gurellia oper...more
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Read in October, 2007
For a potboiler, it wasn't that bad. I initially picked this book up because of how much I enjoyed the Bourne Identity (movie) and wanted to read the Supremacy before I saw that movie. It turned out that it was a good book to read on the bus each day (took my mind off the crazies around me) though completely different from the movie version.
The storyline is actually quite entertaining even if it is very farfetched. Ludlum did a fine job keeping track of his characters and maintaining 2 or...more
The storyline is actually quite entertaining even if it is very farfetched. Ludlum did a fine job keeping track of his characters and maintaining 2 or...more
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Read in July, 2007
This book, too, was great. And once again the movie was almost completely different. I mean come on, Marie dies instead of being kidnapped or whatever. Which definitely made the movie more sad for me. I'm a sucker for stories about 'bad guys who are really good guys deep inside but have a hard time realizing it because something really horrid happened to someone they loved' and all that jazz.
I can't read the third book yet, as someone borrowed it from the library and hasn't returned it. I...more
I can't read the third book yet, as someone borrowed it from the library and hasn't returned it. I...more
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Read in February, 2008
The first 100 and the last 100 pages were great. The 400 pages in the middle were kind of slow. The book is totally different from the movie. The book takes place all over China in the late 70s and is premised on how the world will pretty much end if China tries to take over Hong Kong before 1998. Nothing like an out-dated international crisis to get the blood pumping. Anyway, I'm just glad to have finished this book. It wasn't all that great. I read it over the course of 2 years with the...more
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Read in June, 2008
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Read in September, 2007
The second book in the Bourne trilogy series finds David Webb living peacefully in Maine as a college professor with his new wife Marie. The memories of his past as Jason Bourne still haunt him as he continues to gradually piece together his former life. These hauntings become reality when the government that created him encounters a situation in which they need his expertise once again, as an assassin in the Far East has taken out multiple high-ranking targets...an assassin going by the infam...more
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Read in July, 2007
Blame it on Matt Damon. I am addicted to his Bourne films..and driven by that impulse I picked up this paperback thinking that it might be the basis for the 3rd film which is due for release in September. Anyway, this vast volume (679 pp.)has quite an exciting plot but the author writes in a Wagnerian style, repeating, endlessly, the various connections, dialogues, names, nicknames, etc. A good editor could have reduced the volume to about 300 pp. Overall, I'm pleased to have read it even tho...more
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Read in June, 2008
I really liked this book. It was so much better than the movie. The first book had a couple similarities to the movie but this book has no similarities at all. The author must have just cared about the money and would have let someone use the book for a winnie the pooh movie if they paid him right.
There were two things that I didn't like about the book. The first thing is the language is pretty bad in some places. I hardly notice language for the most part but it is a little hard to ignore i...more
There were two things that I didn't like about the book. The first thing is the language is pretty bad in some places. I hardly notice language for the most part but it is a little hard to ignore i...more
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Ceritanya suatu pagi, melihat2 cover buku ini, lalu baca2 hal gak penting seperti nama penerbitnya, cetakan ke berapa, sampai membaca detail peringatan dilarang mengcopy dst. Ya sahaya sadar diri, kalau sampai tergoda membaca pasti akan kebablasan dan gak mungkin menghabiskannya sekejap. Lalu bla bla bla kok ya tiba2 sudah sampai adegan Bourne mengejar orang yang dicurigai sebagai Bourne palsuw. Mulai merasa seru sendiri, mulai melupakan niat awalna, mulai membayangkan adegannya seperti di movie...more
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Ok, I am not one for this type of book, but someone lent it to me on vacation because I had nothing else to read. Boy, did I have Ludlum pegged wrong! For one thing, please don't judge this book ( or any in this series) on the movies. The screenwriters changed them all so much they are virtually unrecognizable, which is good I think. The movie would have to have been 5 hours long to fit all the intracacies in. Anyway, read it, you will be glued to your seat the entire time, I promise. And I...more
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Read in December, 2007
I'm still in the middle of the SECOND Bourne book. Like "Identity," it's not like the "Supremacy" movie. In fact, its' strikingly different. The setting is in Hong Kong, not India and Europe. Very, very different than the movie, but you know what? About a third of the way into the novel, I like it better than the movie. Better than the first book, too. The story is more interesting and flows more smoothly. To use a VERY over-used cliche, it's a page-turner. If only I h...more
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Read in March, 2008
Chris - Well, this book, again, was not at all like the movie. While this was a pleasure with the first book, this second book in the series seemed overly complicated in order to make everyone seem clever when they would solve anything.
It was still good, but I put it down after I was a third of the way in, for a long while, and then came back to it. Once I reached halfway the story was flowing and I couldn't wait to work my way through it.
I'll have to think about the third one for a ...more
It was still good, but I put it down after I was a third of the way in, for a long while, and then came back to it. Once I reached halfway the story was flowing and I couldn't wait to work my way through it.
I'll have to think about the third one for a ...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
action lovers
I think this book was better on the second reading...I think I even prefer it to "The Bourne Identity"...perhaps because it is the second book in the series, and I feel I know the characters better so there is less time spent on introductions &c. These are not books that everyone will enjoy, and for some reason I can really tell that a man is telling the story. You know how some authors are so adept and understanding that you forget it they are male or female? Well, Ludlum has a de...more
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Read in June, 2008
Pretty good book. I really like to see the variance between the character in the book and the one in the movie. I would be more frightened of the Jason Bourne from the book quite frankly. Mr. Ludlum does a great job at creating a story to show off this really cool character. Those are my favorite types of plots, the plot that is created to discover the characters. They are less predictable and more entertaining. I really feel he did that in this story as opposed to the first book. I look forward...more
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Read in June, 2008
not the *worst* thing i've ever read... but pretty close. i can't think of another book that i've stopped reading when i'm only 30 pages from the end, but i just don't care enough to finish.
just... absolutely terrible writing. average of 10 exclamation points per page, lots of italics to emphasize constantly repeated text, as though the reader can't figure out what's important or remember things more then 2 minutes. almost as poorly written as the DaVinci Code, but at least i could finish...more
just... absolutely terrible writing. average of 10 exclamation points per page, lots of italics to emphasize constantly repeated text, as though the reader can't figure out what's important or remember things more then 2 minutes. almost as poorly written as the DaVinci Code, but at least i could finish...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
Bourne fans
Set in Asia. Hard to get swept-up in this book at first. An early premise was hard to swallow but turns out it was supposed to be a bad cover story, so OK. Later I picked this up again and got caught-up in the drama. One fun thing that's radically different from the films is that these stories are so psychological, poor Jason is tormented and scheming, always plotting.
I read these books out of order thinking this one would shed some light on the movie version. The first book did.
I read these books out of order thinking this one would shed some light on the movie version. The first book did.
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Read in January, 2004
Definitely better than the movie, I thought. But really, the movie was NOTHING like the book. Only the character was the same (Jason Bourne). It didn't even take place in the same country, nor did the same things even happen. I don't even know how that happened. Well, anyway, the book was definitely a good read if you want to try out some of that cloak-and-dagger stuff. You cheer for Bourne and sympathyze for him at the same time, and the background is nicely done too.
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Read in January, 2004
It was a huge letdown following the first book. The Bourne Supremacy got confusing quickly. The plot moves just as fast as the first, but this time it's even more through the government conspiracy stuff that I have a really hard time reading personally. When they disembowel someone, it was the only time I had a vivid picture in my head of what was going on, so much so that I actually gagged. By the end, I honestly didn't know what was happening and I wasn't sure I cared.
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