I'm not saying I didn't love Clancy's geeking out -- just that what works in his stories (in terms of piling on details) doesn't always work, because when those details come right in the middle of a high-tension scene... WHUMP. That was the sound of the tension falling over and smacking itself face-first into the floor.
The problem with Ludlum's books, too, is that only some are identified as ghost-written. The first five or six after his death, it appears, got his name but no indication of whether it was a draft left unedited, or just an outline of an idea, or fully ghostwritten from scratch. Sigh.
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Date: 24 Jan 2009 01:21 am (UTC)The problem with Ludlum's books, too, is that only some are identified as ghost-written. The first five or six after his death, it appears, got his name but no indication of whether it was a draft left unedited, or just an outline of an idea, or fully ghostwritten from scratch. Sigh.