Is the book Bourne Identity really as clunky and boring as it seems?

[jgraz]

After seeing all three movies, I decided to check out the books. I could barely get through the first chapter.

[opiate69]

1. Not really..

it tends to pick up quite a bit once he leaves the doctor's house, but be prepared, it's nothing at all like the movie.. the screenwriters took the general idea and wrote an entirely new plot from it.

[lildreamer316]

2. Sorry, I love it.

All the action without all the gratuitous gore, lots of intrigue. I like all the movies.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. read it, loved it, read it again when the 2nd one came out

because I forgot who was who , so to speak. All 3 are good. When Robert Ludlum got all the pieces in play and the action starts, it is just duck and cover. I found all his books to be edge of the seat reading. The posthumous ones are inferior but still an ok airplane or treadmill book.

[Forkboy]

4. Loved all his books.

A lot of people have never read his books,"The Road to Gandolfo" and "The Road to Omaha".Both are totally different and pretty funny.

He was what Tom Clancy wished he could have been.An action/thriller writer who actually wrote characters,and not caricatures.

Another great spy thriller writer is Craig Thomas,who wrote Firefox (the movie where Clint Eastwood steals the Russian fighter plane),and many other good ones.

Frederick Forsythe is the best of the bunch though.