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The Bourne Trilogy

Posted by Nalin in Fun, Movies on July 22nd, 2007

“Cain is for Charlie, and Delta is for Cain“

I finally finished reading all the three Robert Ludlum’s novels written around the fictional character Jason Bourne a.k.a David Webb… Having watched the first two movies, I just had to read the novels before I went for Bourne Ultimatum on 3rd August.

But, once I started reading the first novel, I realized that the movies, though based on the same lines, are still completely different from the novels. For example, in Bourne Supremacy, the novel takes Bourne to Hong Kong and his wife is very much alive, but in the movie, his wife is killed in the first 15 minutes itself and he never goes far east.

I really liked reading Bourne Identity, but didn’t like Bourne Ultimatum at all… Considering that the movies are just amazing, it was a little difficult to read these novels in beginning. I got really interested in Identity, only after about the first 150 pages. The way Ludlum tries to get the reader to understand Jason’s mental state is really amazing. Also, Ludlum’s use of a lot of French (in Identity) and Chinese (in Supremacy) makes the novel a lot more realistic (but annoying to read at times).

I didn’t like Bourne Ultimatum because it was too long and winding, with a lot of plots and sub-plots that were loosely related to each other. Jason Bourne is 50+ in this novel and knowing that it’s just a bit to hard to imagine him doing all that is written in the novel. Also, so much information was repeated over and over again. I just ended up skipping a lot of pages in the end…

Anyways, so much for the novels…. the movies have been quite amazing. I am really looking forward to the last movie in the Bourne Trilogy. The first two were just amazing and I want to see what’s Bourne up to now…

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Posted by Nalin in General on April 23rd, 2007

Finished reading this last night and it left me quite sad… I already knew that Dumbledore would die in the novel, but still… Anyways… I am happy to have finished reading all the novels as now I can peacefully take a break from this series… It’s quite stupid but I have actually started thinking how much better my life would be with all the magic described in the books. It’s something like wanting to have the Staple’s EASY button.

One thing that was good about this novel was that it wasn’t as difficult a read as the one before it… In The Order of the Phoenix, it was heart wrenching to be in Harry’s shoes all the time… He was portrayed as being so very helpless… but in this novel at least thats not the case. Also, this novel makes for a good setting for the next and the last novel.

There are many rumors going around about how it’s all going to end… I find myself discussing it now and again with people… well… everyone will come to know in July… :-)

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Fountain Head

Posted by Nalin in General on June 10th, 2005

At Last…. after days of gruelling concentration and hours of intense concentration, I have finally finished reading Fountain Head. I had to find time every now and then to read that novel. It started out as ‘a novel that every one has read so I should read it too‘ kind of a novel and got pretty interesting. Well, at a point of time I actually started to hate the novel. All the novels that i have read till now have had more of storyline and less of character description, where as this novel just turned the whole concept around for me. At the end, I didnt drop it for a straight 6 hours and finished it. Am so freaking drowsy now because I havent slept the whole night because of that novel.

I must say that i loved the novel. It’s a master peice. The way the author has talked about the characters is just amazing. Reading the novel just makes you think so much about yourself and the people around you.

Anyways, now that it’s over, i can live in peace…..

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