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Loading... The Bourne Identity (1980)by Robert Ludlum
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. Well-written, gripping thriller, though ending was disappointing (  ) zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |  Favorite sentence: "The old man nodded the way old men do when repeating words that have stunned them to the point of disbelief." (  ) proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 | This story brought me pleasure. The first time I read Joseph Conrad saying in that book that sometimes a philosopher is less instead of more than an ordinary man, I thought he was just real-man-ing me, you know. And you know how Joe is. Snakes and salamanders were sunning themselves side by side all seasonāno really! Iām selling you the sāruth! You can sāleave see! So I was like, Whatever Joe. But now, I donāt know. I still havenāt thrown away Kantās Lectures on Ethics, but certainly Manny was overparticular about What Counts As Reason, you know, and sometimes I do wonder if Iām too intellectual, even too religious. Of course, I donāt mean that as a scam, you know. Are you too religious? Join MyReligion, today! āOf course, the classic Calvinist/Lutheran theologian is probably an Enneagram One, so they probably unconsciously think that theyāre leaning on Two or something, and in another world where people are what they appear to be they might be. But in this very like, Choose the Right Answer, OR, go fuck yourself, way that they have, itās like they think that youāve just gotta be strong, even though they Say youāve just gotta be in relationship, because they idealize the Other Thing, but they canāt very well Be that way, because itās like, Choose the Right Answer, OR go fuck yourself: but youāve got to choose! (And Bidenās a Democrat!) But itās like, Prayer is supposed to change your quality, not just give you a quantity of this or that kind of knowledge, and one of the qualities is honesty, right. (You go on and be in relationship with me. Go on, then. Run along.) But, I donāt know, in Opposite Day World thereād be a lot of good to it. Strength leaning on relationship, empowering both. And anyway, if Matt Damon can get traumatized and lose his memory and wake up and find out that heās a spy or whatever, I just think thatās great, you know. It did something for me. It made me feel good. ā¦. Apparently Robbie believed in conspiracy theories, or at least he ābelievedā in conspiracies for the purposes of writing novels, and Iām a Six, you know, Iām asleep beneath Odinās tree, even if I am an Aquarius (no idea whatās normal and what isnāt), but itās just such rocking, rolling entertainment to have Matt Damon fight the global terrorist-authoritarian conspiracy of evil, you know. Maybe Robbie wasnāt even really that paranoid, who knows. (Who cares! Even if he was, he did something good!) ā¦. Iām not sure whether itās chauvie or not, you know. Itās not as obviously non-chauvie as the Zig & Nola guyāthatās very non-chauvie for a thrillerābut it also doesnāt seem as bad as what I imagined some of the books I decided not to read were. So I donāt know. Itās def Eight on the Enneagramāāreal manā, but without too much connection to Five, serious ideology, and itās not huge into Two either, although there is a woman, but itās just kinda Eight leaning on I guess a Nine; Matt Damonās going to kick some serious ass for six hundred pages, and itāll be great. I donāt watch many movies, and Iām sure they have different qualities due to the length, and maybe Iāll watch the movie too, but I donāt think this was an inferior production. And maybe it wasnāt even chauvie, you knowāitās just, ābadā, lol. ā¦. So, you know, yeah. Life is an adventure; sometimes men with guns come after youā¦. Thereās a certain truth to it. ā¦. Itās actually not too bad. ā¦. āOh, God! Did I kill that man! Was it me? Books are usually good. In practically all video games, youād just be happy to have a rifle, a job, and a pay out; you wouldnāt care. In a lot of TV you wouldnāt care, either, although I guess the video game would be worse. ā¦. It is very Americanāone man versus the system. I guess that IS our system; we have a strange system! At least it makes me feel like we have our own way, despite the problems with it, and that weāre not JUST wannabe-Nazis, you know; although obviously this is a conspiracy thriller and not a patriotic thriller. We let a lot of devils loose in Vietnam! ā¦. But even devils fall in love, Jason; donāt say youāre not worthyā¦. ā¦. Neither oneās a straight romance, although adventures ARE romances and vice versa, but itās actually a lot more āromanticā than the Irish Village book I read, a āfeminineā ācozyā adventure, (although thereās still a murder, lol). That oneās very la la la, ho ho ho, maybe you killed someone; I donāt know; letās dance and drink some scotchāwith a ha ha ha, ho ho hoā¦. Merry old land of Oz. This is less comedic, but more romantic. Itās a real dizzying, fuck-up-your-life romance; a really āgoodā one, you know. I really should make some money doing SOMETHING, you know. Make business friendsā¦. ā¦. And was there a world before smartphones? Even though they had handguns? Interestingā¦. šø ā¦. Curiouser and curiouser: itās like a psychedelic Alice, you know. Actually a psychedelics cult is the Only thing that I think could make it stranger and cooler, but I guess the Cold War crap is cool too. Office workerā¦. Vengeance. Code name: Office workerā¦. Assassination! š„ø (And I almost believe some of what he says or whatever that he thinks about America. I think you can be an empire or whatever and a democracyāan empire that responds to popular pressure; popular greed, basically: popular power and popular violenceābut thereās really no way that you can be dominant and idealistic. Power corrupts, right. One nation isnāt meant to rule the world as though this were LOTR or something š§ ā¦. (Harrison Ford or somebody backing up slowly because thereās a gun on himāitās funny Matt Damon got this part, it must have been great for him and good for him heās so handsome, but itās like, itās funny because you think of Matt you donāt think āDelta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cainā, you know, itās funnyā¦. Anyway: Harrison Ford backing up) Listen, buddy: youāre making a big mistake hereāthis has all been just a big, BIG misunderstanding, basically from a word āGoā, you knowā¦. I mean, you donāt have all the information. Even Eye I donāt have all the information, and Iā (he unintentionally trips over something and then thereās an action sequence) ā¦. Obvs is a very un-Jane-like novel, but itās also a sort of Northās Anger Cafe book: she almost comes out and says in that book that we ruin things for ourselves by saying that it doesnāt matter how we feel, you know. āNovels just make you feel good. (makes face)ā. But we canāt usually accept that really, nor should we, in the overwhelming majority of situations, at the very least. ā¦. I kinda like it when he says āDelta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cainā; itās boss, you know. šøšš„ø ā¦. (near-climax) Hermes Child: Awww, the man found his heart! The man is good! He found his heart, mommy! (beat) And I love my heart. (twenty minutes later) (whispers and guns) The man is bad. Heāll never find his heart! He hasnāt got one! Harrison Ford: (hands) You guys, this has all been a big, big! misunderstandingā¦. Say, you wouldnāt have a drink, would you? ā¦. Obi-Wan Kenobi: That was not a very good book, Harrison. It was rather, ābadā. Not nice. Harrison Ford: (slurred speech) Well, I think it WAS goodāin fact, it was great! It was shouper! Hic! Super! Princess Leia: Youāre a schmuck, Harrison. I hate you. Harrison Ford: But youāll marry me someday! Hic! Deep down, you love me!! Hic! ā¦. Itās a ābadā book, but I like it. I read a lot of the āgoodā books, some of which actually carry their ponderous weight well, but you read what people write about them, and a lot of it is just this screen of prestige promotion and indecision and hiding behind the standard opinions, you know. Itās nice sometimes to honor a book, a thought, because it is a book or a thought, even if itās not an intellectual book or thought. And itās not stupid. goosecap | May 8, 2023 | 322 freixas | Mar 31, 2023 | 8401499267 archivomorero | Feb 13, 2023 |
Roman po kome je snimljen i cuveni istoimeni film sa Mat Dejmonom u glavnoj ulozi. Džejson Born je covek koji nema proŔlost, a moguce je da nece imati ni buducnost. Jedino cega je svestan jeste da ga je Mediteransko more izbacilo na obalu i da mu je telo izreŔetano. Polako ce shvatiti da se nalazi u zamrŔenoj slagalici iz koje nece moci da pobegne kao ni od svoje proŔlosti. I niko ne može da mu pomogne, niko osim žene koja je nekada želela da pobegne od njega. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsā??led by Carlos, the worldā??s most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Supremacy No library descriptions found. |
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