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Summary: WHATS UP WITH CLANCY?????????
Review: I've read all of Clancy's books and the last few have become slow reading bores. I use to wait with eagerness for his next book. After attempting Bear which I gave up within 250 pages, i'm threw with him. TO LONG, TO BORING! Let him teach @ Annapolis or West Point or Harvard but his fiction is so bad compared to Hunt for Red October or Clear and Present Danger. I just hate his books have developed into a insomniacs cure.
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Summary: Do people expect the world anymore?
Review: Tom Clancy is one the best writers of our era, and his long list of books (not the collaborration series: Netforce and Op Center), are worthy of reading if you like political fiction and evil, if not almost realistic, plots spanning the world. I say almost realistic, because if they were true to every law of nature, the story would be about as fun to read as reading a government print manual. If you read every Clancy book until now, read this one, you owe yourself to it. Unfortuanetly, the plot does become a little repetitive with Jack saying how much he loves his job, but they are excusable, and those who scan everything piece of text looking for all those little 'microfaults' probably not that big of Clancy fans, as this books is like all his others. Just read it and take it for what is is.
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Summary: Do not buy this book
Review: Tom Clancy's first book, "The Hunt for Red October" was probably the best and most scientifically accurate books of its genre. Clancy's grasp of military technology and tactics is close to that of a professional soldier and this shows in his books. However his undestanding of cultures and international politics is probably inferior to that of a redneck. When he sticks to writing military books Clancy is quite all right. This time he went too far into geo-politics thereby showing a dangerous ignorance which I hope is not shared by most Americans. The result is an implausible, racist book which tarnishes Tom Clancy's reputation.
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Summary: Put this tome at ground zero
Review: Predicable or not, I have enjoyed the TC novels so far. This one however gave me the feeling that the various plot lines were all written by different people. The editing in parts left me confused about where the plot was trying to go and several plot lines droned on for several hundred pages only to be left hanging. I was in the last hundred pages still waiting for the Rainbow Troopers to do their thing. After lugging this enormous tome around on the subway for the past month, I don't think I will be reading another TC novel.
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Summary: Predictable
Review: Everyone knows that Clancy doesn't have an editor or else the book would be half the length. That aside, The Bear and The Dragon is very predictable in the resolution of the many plots and all solved rather easily. Also, Clancy makes the war a little to easy for the winning side (I think 2 people died fighting a war with a major country). Overall, not Clancy's best work. If you have nothing better to do, then its worth a read.
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Summary: Great read, great book, topics and whole genre is real
Review: I do not understand why people say that Tom Clancy is making the whole China culture to be a bad guy, tell me something, if they were such a bad guy in this book, why did one member of the PRC made a apology to the United States and started working on making this ordeal in the book justified. This book, the Bear and the Dragon, is masterfully, skillfully written, superb sub-plots and plot, great telling of the the story, very realistic, and a very honorable read. I would recommend this book to all who likes Tom Clancy and has an interest what China and Russia is currently like right now. Some reviewers do not know what they are talking about when they downright bash this book, Clancies writing didn't declined in greatness, it heightened in greatness. One of his best books I or you will ever read.
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Summary: Ponderous!
Review: Clancy is (was) on a list of a select group of authors whose books I purchase as soon as they are released. I eagerly await such publications. To say that I was disappointed with the B&D is an understatement. This is a poorly written book! Too much Tom, too little Jack.
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Summary: this cant be clancys' writing
Review: i actually had to force myself to finish reading this book...i am happy that i bought it used and not new, the cost for this tripe would have really mad me ticked...alot of the time i would hit a section and found myself skipping to the next dialogue section... he got too cutsy on pet names, got carried away on how he was going to discribe various religious and ethnic peoples, he even made comments on baptist and mormons being nondrinkers...my kids got tired of hearing gripe about the writing...a waste of cash flow...if you must read it, go to the library
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Summary: Ryan, the reactionary
Review: Yes, this book develops too slowly, but when it finally begins to show its true colors, it gets pretty ugly. I stopped reading this book on page 183. That's when President Ryan spews forth all of Clancy's anti-abortion rhetoric to the less than convincing arguments of his chief of staff.This is Clancy's last war for this reader. I'll leave him 845 pages from the next treaty and long before he sends the world to war once again.
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Summary: The misunderstood book
Review: If you're reading this, you've probably read some of the other reviews on this page and know about the opinion of the too long and drawn out book. The book, at 1028 pages was in fact too long. I could have lived with Jack expressing his dislike of the job about 15 times, but the 16th time was the last straw. But let's think of a real person. If you don't like your job do you complain to your best friend once and be done with it, or do you constantly complain about how your job is such a hassle. It may be annoying, but guess what, that's how a real person handles it. Also, many of the reviewers say that nothing happens through the first 700 pages, but they fail to realize that things do happen. There's the murder investigation, the diplomatic trade negotiations, the Catholic/Baptist events, and the set-up of SONGBIRD. This doesn't take just 100 pages to build up. True it's not an action packed thrill ride, but it's necessary. A country can't just declare war on another without good reason. Clancy's criticizers seem to think the book would be better if the book started out: "Chapter 1: Suddenly, China decided to declare war on Russia for no apparent reason!" It can't work like that, and I personally believe that Clancy has a sheer genius for thinking up these dense plots. Maybe you could see where things were going from the beginning, but does that truly take away from the story. If you've already seen Patriot Games will you not read the book because you already know how the events work out? This book with an amazingly intricate plot and real-life characters is misunderstood.
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