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Summary: Calncy's Rainbow Six is an excellent hi-tech spy whodunit.
Review: Again, Clancy brings current hi-tech gadets to bear to assist Clark and Ding on a mulinational anti terrorist team. Rainbow provides added depth to both Clark and Chavez characters, shows a more humane side of both. At times the story boggs down in detail, typically Clancy. Also, I found myself wondering about situations that were far too long in explanation, the story fragments. However, overall, one of Clancy's best and a great read!
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Summary: Taking your audience for granted.
Review: While I don't expect literary perfection in a tecno/spy/military thiller, Clancy's work in "Rainbow Six" is poor enough to insult the itelligence of even his most die hard fans. While the over the top portrayals of the environmentalist-wackos were entertaining, they were overshadowed by the weak develpment of a shallow and repetitive plot. The poor quality of the book's editing make it clear that this book was rushed to market to satisfy the expected ( and,no doubt, realized ) demand. It appears,( to use a metaphor that is repeated three times in the first half of the book ) that Clancy gave no more thought to the crafting of this book than to "zipping his fly".
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Summary: bad
Review: As a novel, this book is poorly written. As a Tom Clancy book, this is criminal negligence. It seems like whole sections of irrelevant material are stuck in just to make the book longer. This book bears no resemblance to any previous Tom Clancy novel.
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Summary: Ran out of gas in the middle of the book.
Review: I looked forward to Clancy's latest novel with real anticipation. After being bored to tears with the OpsCenter drivel, I was hoping for another Red Storm Rising, or even Executive Orders. I had gotten used to the twists and turns of his plots, and his black and white characters, and even enjoyed them, but even that seems to pale to gray and gray in the book after the first 350 pages, or so. To be honest, I missed Jack Ryan, and missed characters with the latitude to make decisions that did not impact the events of the world, just their own little secion of it. Though overly long, this was an okay read, but had none of the technological "bells and whistles" that I so much look forward to in Clancy novels. Also, when you make as much money as Clancy, you would think that he could afford a better editor, or are normal people not allowed to edit Clancy books? I am sure that I will buy the next one, but the eagerness will be a lot more tempered, and the expectations will be a lot lower. Next, maybe we will have a "Johnny Appleseed" character traveling all over the world and injecting each and every person with some monsterously addictive drug so that he/she can control the world through their addictions. The plan of the bad guys in this one made about as much sense.
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Summary: AWSOME!!!
Review: I loved this book as much if not more than Red October. John Clark and Ding Chavez are 2 badasses in a world fulluv terroism and war and they're ready to kick ass and take names. great book i loved it
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Summary: Fast paced and action packed
Review: This book not only ties in many of the characters from Clancy's past books, but also engulfs the reader in the nonstop action. There are many sub plots going on at the same time to keep the reader interested. MUST READ!!!
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Summary: Interesting, but not the best of thrillers
Review: With Rainbow Six, Clancy has written a "cookie cutter" novel, change the names and places, but the basic plot remains the same. If you have read some of Clancy's most recent Ryan novels, this one seems to follow the same pattern. Rainbow Six is still a thriller, but best enjoyed by someone who has read some of the other John Clark stories that Clancy has written. Without those, a new reader would not appreciate much of the background that is implied but never really stated.
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Summary: A page turner, but a bit long.
Review: I love Clancy's writing, with an abundance of technical details and swift, brutal justice for the bad guys. It seems that Clancy foresees actual world events as he is writing each book. Rainbow is an anti-terrorist task force and the week the book came out, there were two terrorist bombings in Africa. Too bad we didn't have a real "Rainbow" to go after the terrorist leaders as Clancy would have them do.The plot of Rainbow Six is a good one, with the task of saving the world (literally) upon John Clark's shoulders. A 20% edit in length would have made for a four star review. Some of the chapters were as routine and boring as the routine and boring training Ding remarks about.
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Summary: NOT THE BEST THRILLER I READ THIS WEEK
Review: You want believable action-- read Joe Dalton's THE OMEGA MISSILE in paperback. It's cheaper than this tome and much better. Besides, Dalton is a former Green Beret who knows what he's talking about first-hand. This book was simply too long, too unbelievable. I liked Clancy's first books, esp Hunt For Red October but ----
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Summary: Americans are always brilliant...
Review: I wish Clancy would get off his high horse. Why is Rainbow full of Americans? British snipers have represented their country in the Olympics and won medals yet Clancy reckons they aren't good enough. He rightly points out that the Special Air Service Regiment is the best unit at Anti-terroism yet the force is made up of Americans who have had little experience in actual situations. Not a bad story, I bet the tree huggers have a go at him now. John Clark is the best character he has created, Ryan is such a goody goody. By any chance is Clancy Catholic, like his heroes, and Jesuit trained, like Ryan? Red Storm Rising, Sum of all Fears and Without Remorse are his best to date.
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