I'm only home for a few days, and not online for long, so I thought I'd drop a quick update. Not much has changed since the last update, I'm still living with Emily and her family and trying to get a place to stay and the funds to get my business running the way I want. I'm having a great time at Emily's, and it's amazing being with her and her family, who've been so accepting and helpfull
For something else to say, I thought I'd post a little book review:
The Bourne Legacy:
I haven't finished it yet, but just wanted to say what a disappointment it is
I read the Bourne Trilogy straight through (Identity,Supremacy & Ultimatum) and thoroughly enjoyed them, so I was curious how another author might handle the work. Eric Lustbader's been one of my favorite authors since I read Jian, but I have to admit, he has made a serious cockup of The Bourne Legacy. There are two main things he seems to have forgotten, Marie StJacques-Webb, and the Passage of Time... He has Bourne performing similar heroics to the first novel, but he seems to have forgotten that Jason Bourne is now a man in his middle fifties (something Ludlum made real note of in Ultimatum), but he's writing the novel as if he were Matt Damon's age (Both a friend and I agreed that the reason Damon wasn't 100% believable as Bourne was that he was too young for the role) so it all comes over as slightly unrealistic trying to visuallize a 50+ man throwing himself from a speeding bike onto a lorry as if he were only 28...
In both Supremacy and Ultimatum, Jason (and David, when he 're-surfaced') was constantly thinking of his wife Marie, and did everything in the aim of protecting her. In Legacy, there is none of his longing for her.
My other criticizm is that Ludlum established the charachter's duality by changing between Jason Bourne and David Webb (often on the same page) (If something was too much for David, Jason would take over and respond) Lustbader has simply written 'Bourne', virtually since the very beginning, with no further emergences of 'Webb'
If looked at alone, it's a good book to sit down and read, but taken as a continuation of the original series, it really falls flat. I was also a bit disapointed that Lustbader made homage and references to other characters of his (Justine, Karpov and the clandestine agency, DARPA.) He was supposed to be writing a novel with someone else's characters, not sprinkling his own in as self-homage. All in all, I'd say if you're a fan of the original trilogy, read it. Just don't expect too much.
5/10 (as continuation of series)
8/10 (if viewed completely fresh as a stand alone piece)
For something else to say, I thought I'd post a little book review:
The Bourne Legacy:
I haven't finished it yet, but just wanted to say what a disappointment it is
I read the Bourne Trilogy straight through (Identity,Supremacy & Ultimatum) and thoroughly enjoyed them, so I was curious how another author might handle the work. Eric Lustbader's been one of my favorite authors since I read Jian, but I have to admit, he has made a serious cockup of The Bourne Legacy. There are two main things he seems to have forgotten, Marie StJacques-Webb, and the Passage of Time... He has Bourne performing similar heroics to the first novel, but he seems to have forgotten that Jason Bourne is now a man in his middle fifties (something Ludlum made real note of in Ultimatum), but he's writing the novel as if he were Matt Damon's age (Both a friend and I agreed that the reason Damon wasn't 100% believable as Bourne was that he was too young for the role) so it all comes over as slightly unrealistic trying to visuallize a 50+ man throwing himself from a speeding bike onto a lorry as if he were only 28...
In both Supremacy and Ultimatum, Jason (and David, when he 're-surfaced') was constantly thinking of his wife Marie, and did everything in the aim of protecting her. In Legacy, there is none of his longing for her.
My other criticizm is that Ludlum established the charachter's duality by changing between Jason Bourne and David Webb (often on the same page) (If something was too much for David, Jason would take over and respond) Lustbader has simply written 'Bourne', virtually since the very beginning, with no further emergences of 'Webb'
If looked at alone, it's a good book to sit down and read, but taken as a continuation of the original series, it really falls flat. I was also a bit disapointed that Lustbader made homage and references to other characters of his (Justine, Karpov and the clandestine agency, DARPA.) He was supposed to be writing a novel with someone else's characters, not sprinkling his own in as self-homage. All in all, I'd say if you're a fan of the original trilogy, read it. Just don't expect too much.
5/10 (as continuation of series)
8/10 (if viewed completely fresh as a stand alone piece)
sliverz:
Well... it's good to hear that things are going nicely for you. I hope good things speed their way to you, so that everything can settle for you soon 