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Summary: A brilliant insight into the american war machine
Review: Robinson using the in dept knowledge of the falklands battle commander Sandy Woodford writes this stunning novel about the true might if the American war machine.Getting swept along by the titles main character Admiral Morgan and how he is always on a private war footing with every ancient enemy of the USA makes the book all the more convincing. Once you pick up the book you will be unable to put it down due to the stuning realism created by Robinson. You feel that you are truely involved in the inner workings of Americas true military power and what is due to happen to all that oppose them and their might. a truely brilliant book from begining to end,full of suspense, cunning and in some cases utter ruthlessness. I truely recommend this book to all who are intrested in millitary novels not to be missed
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Summary: Better than the first but cliches continue
Review: Better than the first book. The charaters still are too grand, too super people. "This is the commander, the foremost specialist in his expertise, 3 doctor degrees - nuclear physics, electronics, naval engineering from MIT with a 4.0, married to the daughter of the best family in New England, and he is the fastest rising naval officer ever, his family has been fishing and sailing for 10 generations and he is a world class sailor, he is physically a giant and looks like Cary Grant bla bla bla." The same kind of character development as with the first book. Actually, one of my favor characters is the feeble russian Rankov and Admiral Morgan. These guys are funny. The other characters...boring! Also, the whole thing with the reporter - overdone. The end of the book when the last Kilo is killed was stupid. I really thought the last kilo would find the SSN and sink it, or both sink. That would add more drama to the book. Instead it was like another action movie where the end was predictable. Soon as the SSN pulled way from the island and the Kilo was done with the Taiwanese, you knew that he would destroy it. Also, the Typhoon could have been used for something more in the book. I did like the idea of the Taiwanese building a nuclear base, the run under the north pole, the Russian convoy going east etc.. So the book was good, better than the first but still he has to pull way from cliches and predictable plots and ends. And, don't tell us what is going to happen before it does, it kills suspense.
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Summary: Kilo Class: China's 10 Soviet Supersubs To Nuke Taiwan!
Review: Russia has developed a new line of Kilo-class nuclear attack submarines. They decide to sell these subs to other nations that violate international laws. China orders 10 of these super-stealthy and -deadly subsurface warships, but the U.S. Navy proceeds to destroy eight of them.
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Summary: Robinson delivers another slammin good book.
Review: In a sequel to Nimitz Class, Patrick Robinson follows up with his second naval book, Kilo Class, an excellent adventure that follows the escapades of the beliggerent Russians and our hometown heroes through locations as far flung as the North Pole, inner Russia, the North Atlantic, and even the Kerguelen Islands. Robinson, just like in Nimitz Class, searched extensively to find the correct information for the book. And like Nimitz Class and HMS Unseen, the book is a non-stop read. I found myself not being able to put it down. As the Florida Sun-Times says, "Robinson is fast replacing Clancy as the preeminent naval fiction writer", his books deliver action, thrills, and not a bit of romance. Definetly a read for someone who enjoys Clancy, Cussler, or other naval fiction writers.
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Summary: While China holds American spy plane, read this book!
Review: This book is a great read while China and the U.S. are disputing over the American spy plane's crash with a Chinese fighter jet. Taiwan is the little island stuck in the middle and the thorn on China's back (as well as the U.S.'s). The story is fundamentally based on fact, but the author's imagination could become true anytime!
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Summary: AUDIOBOOK: somewhat entertaining, poorly read
Review: I love listening to books on tape, so I like to look for reviews by people who have LISTENED to the book on tape because it's a fundamentally different review than just the book itself. As far as the content of the book, you can review the other readers' reviews. While this book was somewhat entertaining to listen to, the mispronunciations and cheesy voices the reader used made it almost unbearable. Anyone who knows the slightest thing about the US Navy is familiar with Mk as the abbreviation for "Mark". Everyplace in the book they talk about loading or shooting a Mk-48 torpedo, the reader says, "em-kay forty-eight," instead of "mark forty-eight". It got on my nerves. He also invents his own pronunciation of the GIUK gap. It's difficult to keep track of which character is which because the reader has a very limited selection of voice impersonations. Just about every character came across as some macho, gruff, deep-voiced and cussin' cowboy. Luckily there were very few lines of dialogue by a woman. I think the reader just spoke in his normal voice for those few lines, but it was hard to picture a woman saying the lines with his voice. I agree with one of the other reviews I just read that said it didn't deserve any more than one star. The plot was entertaining (at least I preferred listening to that tape than I did listening to the latest election news on the radio), but totally unrealistic and unbelievable. If you are shopping for a book on tape to listen to, I recommend you skip this one and continue your shopping.
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Summary: Too obvious!
Review: This book, although it has a lot of characters in it, seem to be very predicted and has no twist in it. Every man in here, seem to be the best in his business and too perfect. And like in all seocnd rate cold war books, the americans, are smarter and theyr'e the good guys. All in all, it's a pretty mediocre book, who doesn't survive the test of reality.
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Summary: Arnold Morgan is a class of his own
Review: Concerning strictly "narrative," Robinson's Kilo Class fails. The plot is implausible and interminably boring. The ending is a genuine letdown. However, I recommend this novel to any student of American history interested in the "military mind." Patrick Robinson succeeds brilliantly in his creation of Arnold Morgan, the rude, demanding, angry, coffee-drinking old naval officer whose life passion is "keeping an eye on" every non-U.S. submarine in the world. He is staunchly conservative, racist (using words like "towelheads" and "Chinamen") and fascinatingly paranoid -- a true relic of the cold war. Arnold Morgan made me laugh. A truly great character.
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Summary: Read it if you are under 14.
Review: I was spending a weekend away from home and the only book I could find in the place was this one. I can't beleive someone gave this book more than 1 star! Boy, people do have different tastes... Here, in my opinion, are only the obvious problems with this book. The characters are 2-dimensional: all navy men are 6'2-4'', have huge arms and legs like tree trunks. They are casual freinds of the Presidend, Admirals, bankers, etc. Their wives and girlfriends are former actresses, etc, blah-blah-blah... And yeah, they all are very rich. All senior officers and admirals portrayed as rude, dumb and ignorant jerks, although author is telling us that his characters are very smart. It is hard to distinguish one character from another - they look identical! Apparently characters of this book (even senior officers and rulers of different countries) never graduated from high school! At least that's the way their dialogs are written. The author made his helpless characters keep beating around the bush for pages on end only to arrive to the point which was obvious from the first sentence. Week writing, however, can be entertaining at times. Check out the phrase on page 103 (paperback): "Just the site of her [submarine] cruising out into the darkness seemed to cause the night simmer with peril. For someone." This belongs in the Saturday Night Live script! Enjoy!
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Summary: Not his best - but a good read nonetheless
Review: Now, before I launch into a big description here, let me make one thing perfectly clear - Patrick Robinson is my FAVORITE, hands-down, fiction author. I've read his books, I've met him in person when he came to Borders by us, and I really enjoy his style of writing. He embodies the essence of Clancy that made it so real before movies and merchandising changed Clancy's writing forever... Kilo Class is the story of an extremely real problem. The Russian Republic is falling apart financially and has one major export - military equipment. Good military equipment. The Kilo-class diesel submarine is one of the stealthiest in the world, a force to be reckoned with. The problem: China is buying them. 2 already in actice service, 5 more on order. The solution: Sink them. If China were to maintain even three active Kilo submarines at any one time, with a competent military strategist leading them, they could blockade the Taiwan Strait and cut off foreign support, successfully taking over the island. Thus, Patrick Robinson's newest novel begins with a meeting of high-ranking officials in the US Armed Forces. But the majority of the book details the special forces and submarine warfare used to destroy the Kilo submarines before they are delivered intact to China. It was a good read, but it felt like kind of a deviation from his other books...sort of like it didn't fit in the line. This would make more sense coming after HMS Unseen, before USS Seawolf...sort of laying the groundwork, if you will. But I digress. Pick up this book if you liked the old Clancy. Robinson is the new gun in town when it comes to techno-thrillers.
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