Words & Music
It’s Tuesday again, when we take a look at new music and books hitting the shelves this week just for you, our loyal RF readers! Today’s new music includes albums from Duffy, Death Cab for Cutie, Isobel Campbell, Girlyman, Filter, Simone, and Sixwire. Today’s new books include the final novel in the Legacy of the Force series – Invincible, plus other goodies including William Shatner’s new autobiography, a tie-in book for the new Indiana Jones movie, new novels by Dale Brown, Jeff Shaara, Boris Akunin, and another tie-in with the Band of Brothers series of books – Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey. Check inside for more.
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It’s been twenty-five years since Robert Ludlum published The Bourne Identity and fifteen years since the third and final book of the series, The Bourne Ultimatum, was published. With the popularity of the new Matt Damon movies, Ludlum’s estate gave the project of resurrecting the series to Eric Van Lustbader. In hindsight, it would have helped if someone had made sure Lustbader had actually read Ludlum’s books. Lustbader’s The Bourne Legacyis a sequel of the worst order; a horribly written dime store novel, filled with characters that are only shadows of their once vibrant selves, full of countless continuity errors as the author gleefully violates the rules of the series, rewriting it to make it his own. Anyone who thinks they can do a better job with an author’s characters than the author himself should read this to see what happens when such material is put in the wrong hands.
I’ve been reading the Harry Potter series for just over nine years now. I’ve spent countless hours reading and rereading the books, discussing them with my friends, and even protesting a radio station for ruining the last book’s ending on-air before I finished it. With all of my history with the books, is it even close to possible for series author J.K. Rowling to end this story that I’ve grown up with to my satisfaction?