Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Dominion (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Robert Ludlum is a very well known writer, creating some of the best books to read on the market: The Bourne Series. To have Eric Van Lustbader take his position on the stories is in some cases a win, and some cases not so much. But, I gave my review two stars not because of this switch, but because of the overall quality of the book. Throughout the book, Jason Bourne battles through his enemies to stop the one most common enemy found in most books nowadays, known as terrorism. Jason is tracking down a set of terrorists, planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources, and is in need of help from an old and everlasting friend, General Boris Karpov, who in turn creates a deal with his company, stating that he has to hunt down and kill one of his most anticipated friends throughout his life: Jason Bourne. It is just a regular copy of all the other spy books you will find on the market nowadays. The only difference is that some of the spy books you may find have a better overall quality, with structure matching that of what it's expectations require it to be. This book I believe had been a let down, for as I went to see the most recent release of the last Bourne movie and had come home to hope to find such quality in the book as found in the movie, I was not impressed, and had wanted to stop reading but had pushed myself to keep reading until the end, where at that point I had looked back at my horrible waste of a week and had asked myself for my time back.As you may know, the Bourne series is very well written, and considering you're reading this review now, you are pondering over whether you want to read it or not. If you would like to read it, by all means, be my guest. But understand that the story found between that hard cover I had wasted extra money on thinking it was going to be such an amazing follow up to the award winning series I had previously bought over the years was a great let-down for me. This book was a below average descent into money making. After the initial Bourne books proved successful, as often happens, the writing is turned over to a second author to just crank out books with the same characters. What results is something like this. From the start, it became hard just to read and enjoy the book. In the end it proved marginally enjoyable, but I have a problem with the overeager setups of many poor modern writers. They exercise no patience in their writing, and with little talent and ability to develop characters and a plot, try to do so in the first pages and chapter of a book. What results is a lot of excessive drivel and unasked for details plugged into every opportunity, turning the beginning of those books into almost a chore. One other issue with the writing style is it is overly superflous. Many wanna be authors have heard many adjectives are good for writing. They know now how to use them, so they use all of them, as much as possible. What results in this book is a lot of vague excessive language that rather than add to the enjoyment distract the reader and make the book harder to read as it destroys its flow. Adjectives are nice, to a point this book far exceedes. A textbook must be exact, a novel must evoke emotion. Further, the book is plagued by a few fatal flaws. For one, it has WAY to many characters and bit players. This is confusing, and the story jumps around too much. Once again an over eager author has put in too much of a good thing, and near the end the height of the story becomes lost as you wonder why you should care about all of it. Second, to add to the confusion there are far too many pet/nick/alternate names for these secondary(or primary, who can tell) characters to further confuse the reader. You have to re read sections, and half way through the book it flips over to a scene with a character who was mentioned in chapter 1, who you STILL have no idea who they are. I found myself wondering if this person was a new character, or one of any number of other possibilities at multiple points. Overall, its enjoyable because of action, but surely, there are far better action books out there.
What do You think about Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Dominion (2011)?
Eh! It started slow then felt like it was all thrown together at then end. It was just okay...
—orcun
As usual alot of badies get offed, and Bourne takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
—Purva
always loves me a Bourne book so even if it's poo I'm gonna say it's good
—dawn
start again at-a-later-date - - - not for me right now
—ekm
I really enjoyed the suspense in this book.
—nejat
