http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/07/30/and-dont-forget-harold-robbins/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/07/30/and-dont-forget-harold-robbins/#comment-71617 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Ludlum Still Dead, Still Publishing Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:35:33 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/07/30/and-dont-forget-harold-robbins/#comment-71617 [...] Apparently it takes a while for U.S. newspapers to reach Australia. Six weeks after the New York Times (”The Ludlum Conundrum,” by Richard Sandomir) explored the phenomenon of Robert Ludlum’s incredible post-mortem productivity, The Age (”The Ludlum conspiracy,” by Rob Sharp) gets in on the act. The author’s estate works like a “film studio,” we are told, “presenting old books completed by other writers or new ones in which Ludlum is credited along with the new author. Despite this, a number of mysterious figures remain in the shadows.” [...] […] Apparently it takes a while for U.S. newspapers to reach Australia. Six weeks after the New York Times (”The Ludlum Conundrum,” by Richard Sandomir) explored the phenomenon of Robert Ludlum’s incredible post-mortem productivity, The Age (”The Ludlum conspiracy,” by Rob Sharp) gets in on the act. The author’s estate works like a “film studio,” we are told, “presenting old books completed by other writers or new ones in which Ludlum is credited along with the new author. Despite this, a number of mysterious figures remain in the shadows.” […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/07/30/and-dont-forget-harold-robbins/#comment-61437 Bill Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:45 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/07/30/and-dont-forget-harold-robbins/#comment-61437 The interesting thing about the posthumous Ludlum books, as pointed out by Booklist's indefatigable Ludlum reviewer, David Pitt, is that some of them seem to better than the ones written when the author was alive! When breathing, Ludlum was a hopelessly clunky stylist, but somehow when his brain died, his ear sharpened. There's hope for all bad writers. The interesting thing about the posthumous Ludlum books, as pointed out by Booklist’s indefatigable Ludlum reviewer, David Pitt, is that some of them seem to better than the ones written when the author was alive! When breathing, Ludlum was a hopelessly clunky stylist, but somehow when his brain died, his ear sharpened. There’s hope for all bad writers.

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