The Bourne Identity – Ludlum – Audio book review
Posted by admin on May 6, 2011
Though I am, at the very least, a voracious reader, and I like my classics, I had never before read anything by Robert Ludlum. And I’m pretty sure I never will again. I figured a classic like the Bourne Identity would be a cinch, action packed drama, ideally suited for a very long drive through France. Alas. In the audio version Jason Bourne is nothing like Matt Damon!
The original book was published in 1975. Which is fine. People sending cables actually lent a certain quaintness to the proceedings. But after a while the slow pace began to drive me insane. Did people really have that much more time in the Seventies? There was TV back then, right? Oddly enough, the slow pace is what attracts me to loads of other books, say M.C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth series, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie or David Guterson’s wonderful books. But in what is supposed to be an action packed, edge of your seat, experience the plot just dully ploughed on.
Matters weren’t helped by the fact that the guy reading this audio version, Scott Brick, sounded as if he was bored senseless as well. I’d seriously give this a miss.
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