Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 28, 2024 1:42:13 GMT
Prometheus Deception (2000)
Never had any interest in the spy malarkie books. Gave this one a burl on the strength of the Jason Bourne films. Sure enough, this book reads exactly like a film. In fact its more film than book. When you read Stephen King books you think "this would make a great film". As I read this book I thought "the clearly targeted purpose and focus and objective of everything about this book is to get it made into a film."
The dialogue veers between clunky and mills and boonie. The exclamation marks achieve the opposite of their intent and drain scenes of excitement. "It was the killer!" FFS. At the risk of sounding like a literatii snobbe, this is a book for 12-year old boys. In fact I cannot imagine any female of any age being interested in this book.
Still though, duder knows how to put together a story. I thought I'd read about 50 pages then looked at the page number and it said 130 pages.
7/10.
Never had any interest in the spy malarkie books. Gave this one a burl on the strength of the Jason Bourne films. Sure enough, this book reads exactly like a film. In fact its more film than book. When you read Stephen King books you think "this would make a great film". As I read this book I thought "the clearly targeted purpose and focus and objective of everything about this book is to get it made into a film."
The dialogue veers between clunky and mills and boonie. The exclamation marks achieve the opposite of their intent and drain scenes of excitement. "It was the killer!" FFS. At the risk of sounding like a literatii snobbe, this is a book for 12-year old boys. In fact I cannot imagine any female of any age being interested in this book.
Still though, duder knows how to put together a story. I thought I'd read about 50 pages then looked at the page number and it said 130 pages.
7/10.