Wait--isn't she Canadian in the books? I know they end up in Montreal, and I thought that was why.
Probably. I may be confused because they meet in Zurich. She's a scientician! And they run around town buying wigs or somesuch.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
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bon bon - Jul 09, 2007 12:52:55 pm PDT #52 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Sean K - Jul 09, 2007 12:53:25 pm PDT #53 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
it tears at me, devouring me from beneath
Starting with his bottom?
he just shoots the shit out of people and snaps their neck and stuff
Except he only kills people who are actively trying to kill him. Cops and security guards and people like that who are just doing their jobs he tries not to hurt more than he really has to. Yes, sometimes that still a lot of hurt, but he tries!
Amy - Jul 09, 2007 12:54:07 pm PDT #54 of 10000
Because books.
I love Movie!Bourne. He's all woobieful and etched with pain, but he doesn't burble about it; he just shoots the shit out of people and snaps their neck and stuff, and then he looks broken some more, occasionally in shirts that show off some arm. That's good enough for me.
As always, JZ says it best.
Hayden - Jul 09, 2007 12:57:42 pm PDT #55 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
You were just waiting for that one, weren't you?
I'd have answered sooner, but y'know. Happy hour.
Miracleman - Jul 09, 2007 12:57:49 pm PDT #56 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Except he only kills people who are actively trying to kill him. Cops and security guards and people like that who are just doing their jobs he tries not to hurt more than he really has to.
"Here's your double mocha latte with extra whipped cream, Mr. Bourne."
"Do you know how much sugar is in this? How much fat? Do you know what this will do to my cholesterol?"
*snapcrunchspackleowiepunchtodeath*
"Fucker was trying to kill me. Hey, where are the napkins?"
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 12:58:25 pm PDT #57 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked BookBourne just fine. He's not as hot as MovieBourne, but he was more complicated and had the decency to fall for a woman who had some use to the plot beyond her death.
She was in banking, IIRC.
Nutty - Jul 09, 2007 1:01:13 pm PDT #58 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The fact that book-Marie was in banking is the reason why there is a 100-page digression about how to transfer money illegally across national borders before the advent of the internet. Let us merely say that Ludlum had a pretty good idea for the first Bourne novel (the other two struck me as faintly ridiculous) and went about it in methods that don't fly very well for people who aren't already fans of angsty spy novels.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 1:03:57 pm PDT #59 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was raised on angsty spy novels. Well, them and stories of racial violence in the deep south. So I had no learning/loving curve at all.
I mean, there are people that don't like angsty spy novels? And pick up Ludlum?
Harrumph.
bon bon - Jul 09, 2007 1:04:05 pm PDT #60 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I wiki'd, and apparently she's a Canadian economist. Which would explain why we're all right. I remember her being at a conference.
I've had a bad day at work, this is why I'm trainspotting here.
JZ - Jul 09, 2007 1:06:46 pm PDT #61 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
She was in banking, IIRC.
She felt to me like total flobotanum -- Bourne's shadowy past could be sussed out if he only had the assistance of someone who knows international banking inside and out, if only -- why, hel-LO, Marie!
It may also be that I'm ruined for spy novels by having started out with Le Carré, lord and king and master and commander of the angsty spy novel (TM Nutty), and I probably shouldn't have read Bourne quite so immediately after The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, as it was bound to suffer in comparison. I should have waited a bit, say, two or three years. t /serious Ludlum issues