Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy

[wittzo]

I am reading The Bourne Supremacy right now, I read The Bourne Identity a while back...it's a slow read.

I read the Neanderthal Parralax, read the tirade I wrote in anothe thread about that..

I also read Ben Bova's "Jupiter", it was okay.
"Flight of the Phoenix" was a very good read. The original movie based on the book was nearly 100% accurate, I'm afraid the Randy Quaid version is going to suck so bad...

A friend got me hooked on David Gemmel's "Rigante" series, the first book was "Sword in the Storm"

After I read these, I'm going to read "Escape in Iraq: The Thomas Hamill Story", it's about that truck driver from McComb(sp?, big time!) who was a POW in Iraq.

After that, I'm going to read the Ben Franklin biography by Walter Isaacson

[wretch]

I read Identity and Supremacy years ago when I was a teen and really loved them. I haven't read the latest one yet but I'm starting to get the itch for some good fiction and it might just be the scratch I need.

[wittzo]

I gave up on "Supremacy", it was too dated. I got tired of reading suspense about the handover of Hong Kong to China and other things that happened 20 to 30 years ago.

It was hard to be scared of Carlos the Jackal with the knowledge that he got arrested and imprisoned years ago...Ludlum thought a premature handover of Hong Kong to China would lead to a complete economic meltdown and WW3. Riiiight..

I did read a good book last summer called "Master Sniper". I found out since that it was semi-true. It was about the Vampyr night-vision rifle scope that the Germans were developing and the US perfected. The author wrote it so well that even if you knew history, it was still suspenseful.

Ludlum wrote the Bourne novels before the end of the cold war, no one knew how soon it was going to end and turn the events he was writing about into trivial footnotes.