Jason Bourne's amnesia resonates with me on a deeply personal level. It's strikingly similar to my own patchy memory! For instance, I've completely blanked on key plot points from most of Robert Ludlum's books, despite devouring them during my commutes and travels between '77 and '84. So why can I still recall highlights from Dickens, Shakespeare, and the Brontës, which I read over a decade earlier? Well, duh! Great writers deliver a real punch!You never forget a true knockout.Ludlum, however, s...

Read this one ages ago, but it still gets a solid five stars from me. I absolutely couldn't put down *The Bourne Identity*, and for its time, the concept was revolutionary, paving the way for so many other great thriller authors. A true classic!David Putnam, author of the Bruno Johnson series. This is a must-read for fans of Robert Ludlum and anyone looking for a gripping spy thriller. If you're looking for book reviews that recommend action-packed page-turners, look no further than *The Bourne ...

I watched the first *Bourne Identity* movie and honestly, I was lost. Way too much action for my taste! But this retelling is actually quite different from the films, especially since the story is set after the Vietnam War. Now, I completely get this abridged version of Robert Ludlum's original novel (with MP3). I studied German back in university about 30 years ago, and I thought that language was tough, but learning English is proving to be just as difficult! Still, I'm determined to get there...

A HEARTBREAK HIPSTER REVIEWThe Bourne Identity? More like The Bore Identity, am I right? Anybody?Oh, well, that’s just fine then. Don’t all freaking laugh at once. But I’ll stand my ground. This stuff was unbelievably boring.Let’s go back to 2002. The cool kids in school dressed like Simple Plan – long shorts and high, black socks; a perpetual look of middle-class melancholy haunting their feminine faces. Who the hell ever heard of Facebook? You wanna chat, damn it, you call me, mate. The going ...

All 5-Stars - It Was Excellent Entertainment!03 Feb, 2024 - A re-listenRobert Ludlum - Jason Bourne #1 - The Bourne Identity Audiobook: 22:21 Hours - Narrator: Scott Brick (2008)I will (probably) be writing a review, but in the meantime here are some of my Listening Activity comments: 03 Feb, 2024 \"This is on TV tonight. I won't watch it, but I thought maybe I should listen to it again. I first read the paper-back in the early 1980s, at least once, and I think I listened to the audiobook once...

This book, The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, actually caused me physical pain. Intense boredom, bizarre moments of indignation, just...pain. The pacing is atrocious. The prose is a clunky, redundant, and pointlessly vague assault on everything that's good about the English language. The dialogue is stilted and awful. The characters are so robotic that I started wondering if Robert Ludlum had ever actually met another human being. And the "romance"? Not only is it ridiculously overblown, BUT ...

I honestly don't remember how *The Bourne Identity* ended, because I had to buy myself a Jack and Coke just to get through the last chapter. Robert Ludlum belongs in a very special, very small group of authors who clearly have no idea what words actually *mean*. To illustrate my point, here are some passages from *The Bourne Identity*, followed by the first image that popped into my head when I read them: "'If I scream, Monsieur?' The powdered mask was cracked with lines of venom now, the brigh...

Okay, straight up, I loathed the recent movie with Matt Damon. They completely wrecked the story of *The Bourne Identity* by Robert Ludlum. I get condensing things for time, like they did with *The Lord of the Rings*. I even understand merging characters sometimes. But why grab a book's title and then rewrite the entire plot? It makes no sense! I love this book and the sequels that follow. The movie and *its* sequels? I can't stand them. Seriously, give the books a shot and discover what the s...

I'm sorry if you adored this book, but I absolutely HATED it. Maybe it was just too advanced for me. There were way too many instances of "alpha, bravo, cain, delta... Cain is for Charlie, Delta is for Cain!" This book knocked me out cold so many nights; it's a wonder I even finished it. I just kept wishing Jason Bourne would kick the bucket... Thank goodness I found it at Goodwill and only paid 50 cents! Everyone keeps telling me I should give the movie a shot and that it's better than Robert L...

I loved the movie *The Bourne Identity* and heard that the book was comparatively awesome. And it was. The thing is: I haven't the faintest idea how the movie came out of the book. Beyond the premise of a man fished from the sea with no memory but incredible ingrained abilities and talents that make it look like he's really probably an assassin with amnesia, and the fact that the first act after the prologue occurs in Zürich and deals with a Swiss bank, nothing is the same. Sure, there's a gir...