[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Do you think that Clancy's novels have lost their "edge"? Or that Clancy
> > has
> > spread himself too thin over time? The man is a franchise now, mostly. I
> > with your perception...
> >
>
> I think he has Ludlum Disease. (He has reached a level of success as a
> best-selling author that makes him, essentially, uneditable, at least
against his
> will. The guy is a raging egomaniac, which pains me a bit to say
considering
> he's a big Macintosh proponent.)
Ludlum kept disappointing me the last 3 or four of his books. Of course he
was ill and almost died 3-4 years ago; then he did earlier this year I
believe. I thoroughly enjoyed his early stuff ("The Chancellor Manuscript;
The Gemini Contenders", The "Bourne" series,etc.); later it was just one
"The" + adjective + noun novel with different names for nearly identical
characters. Ludlum also has someone writing books with a "Robert Ludlum's"
lead in. I've read that his last, "The Janson (Jansen) Directive" was
finished by one of his collaborators.
Awhile back I watched both versions of "The Bourne Identity." The recent
one with Matt Damon was only loosely based on the novel was the better of
the two. The original mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain followed the
novel very closely but was rather hokey.
George A
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