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Summary: A complete loser of a book
Review: This book is a complete waste of your time. Worse than that. I was looking for a new author to discover and enjoy, and a thriller, and the critics' reviews of this tempted me. I enjoyed the first 20 pages or so, and then the book really started to go downhill. Clichés are a given of the genre, but the author takes this ad nauseum. Plots within plots within plots are only tolerable when you care about the characters. You can't in this book because they are so shallow that to call them two-dimensional would be an insult to B-movie plots. I started to think that going blind might be preferable to finishing this......save your money, don't buy it. Save your time, life is too short, don't read it.
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Summary: Different names same story
Review: Boy meets girl, the whole world turns against them, hundreds die, boy saves world. Version 14 enough said
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Summary: Waste of time.
Review: This book was a waste of my time. It is pointless. I was insulted by the frequent usage of french terms and phrases. France is one of most anti-American countries in the world and there is no positive purpose served by including words and terms of this despicable country in an American book.
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Summary: Prometheus Debacle
Review: I first read Scarlatti Inheritance in the 70's, and every book since, but this one borders on the ridiculous. The premise of the Directorate was interesting, but for Bryson to make the multitude of unbelievable escapes; buy, assemble, and set up sophisticated computer equipment in a matter of hours is just not plausible, along with most of the escapades. I'm sorry, but this one is just too far-fetched.
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Summary: Still disapointing
Review: I keep hoping that Ludlum will rise to the level of his early works.. I'm not a literary critic, but maybe more plain old people like me ought to review this kind of junk before it's released. Ludlum ought to fire whomever is writing this stuff for him... Example...Page 58. Bryson had "stowed his weapon in his glove compartment..." Page 59. "Bryson's Glock was nestled against the base of his spine, in his rear waist holster." Page 62. Bryson kills his enemy by twisting his Glock around and shooting his enemy in the face.. Tell me how anyone could survive shooting an automatic handgun in that kind of confined space without serious injury to the back caused by the ejection action of the automatic pistol... this junk goes on and on... Your reviewers either aren't reading this book or they have some financial interest in promoting it. It is awful.
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Summary: Mega Bust!
Review: Having been an avid Ludlum reader I find this a very disappointing read. Ludlum's main character is "super-human"; events are highly scattered,staged and unrealistic; characters appear/disappear in a random and chaotic manner. The thrills in the book where best viewed as stand alone events with no continuity. The ending was incoherent.Ludlum seems to be grasping and tired.
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Summary: One of Ludlum's best yet.
Review: My wife bought me "The Prometheus Deception" for Christmas and I couldn't put it down. I began reading Ludlum with "The Aquitaine Progression" and have read every one of his books since then. This one, in my opinion, may be his best yet. I was devouring the book page by page. There are so many twists in this book you will not want to put it down until you finish page 509, the end. Outstanding plots and characters with an in depth look at the possibilities of Signals Intelligence and the realm of the computer age functioning with telecommunications. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait for the sequal!! Order it now, you wont regret it.
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Summary: Wow! Fabulous read!!
Review: I simply could not put this one down. Well done, Mr. L! After all these novels, you still have new ideas -- I hope I can be as creative as long. Here's to many more RL novels to come!
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Summary: one of his best
Review: While not the best of works it is clearly up there. I felt the confusion and uncertainy of the main character. Who was the bad guy, who do you trust? At times the central character is a bit unbelievable, but that would be my only criticism.
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Summary: Wait for the paperback
Review: While I enjoy Ludlum's work, and usually pick up a copy of his work as soon as it hits the shelves, I would have felt better about this book had I waited for the paperback. The book has an interesting, but not too believable plot, with some unusual twists and turns. Unless you are a hard-core Ludlum fan, save this for beach-reading next summer when you can pick up a paperback copy for seven or eight bucks.
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