50 shades of grey is also one of the worst books of all time, so this is entirely unsurprising information.

james patterson hasn’t written an actual novel in decades at this point i’m pretty sure. he just slaps his name on everything in sight so he can lie about being the “most published author” in history.

probably wise to have stopped there (bourne). i like spy thrillers and i’m a masochist so i’ve read them all. overall, it’s not like they’re terrible, but the new guy was somewhat messy, not attentive to character detail, and rather rote about coming up with some random woman of the moment for bourne to fall in love with, it got kinda ridiculous and unbelievable.

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they moved on from him and the new guy has been basically sequeling the movies instead of the books.

depends. like someone else mentioned, kyle mills, who took over for vince flynn on the mitch rapp series, there wasn’t much of a difference, he did a decent job continuing.

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on the other hand, when eric von lustbader (sp?) continued the jason bourne series after robert ludlum died it was . . . messy. he struggled to even keep track of his own characters (we’re talking super major character introduced in first book only to never be heard from again, minor character killed at the end of the second, only to be magically resurrected into a major character in subsequent books), let alone properly deal with bourne, and killed a major character between books, kept having bourne fall in love with whichever random woman was around, it was just not great. now they’ve reset bourne with a different author which i think is supposed to be more tied to the moves than the original books.

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then they did some stuff that was “based on the concept by ludlum” which i assume was some sort of half finished novel or treatment which was actually pretty decent. the covert one series. interestingly, kyle mills wrote a couple of those too i believe.