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Summary: This is a terrible book.
Review: Tom Clancy should be ashamed of himself. Its' (too few) action scenes are suspenseful. The part of the book, however, that surrounds these minor sub-stories is absolutely lacking in plot, character development or focus. It's almost as if it were dictated as free-association , with little or no thought given to story elements beyond, of course , reaching (in as many unnecessary words as possible) Clancy's morally depraved ending.
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Summary: Clancy's worst effort to date
Review: I was extremely disappointed by this book. After slogging 700 pages into it, I gave up the effort and gave the book away.Fundamentally, the entire premise is flawed. First, Clark and Chavez aren't very interesting people unless you like government sanctioned killers. Unlike Jack Ryan (who, while obviously president, is never mentioned by name), they have minimal ability, or more importantly, disposition to effect their environment. Consequently, Clancy's efforts to build the story around them becomes an exercise in tedium. His effort to include their wives only exacerbates the situation as this leads to the obvious comparison with Patsy Ryan. Secondly, it's a one idea book. To wit: Look, Ding, Look.... See the terrorists.... Kill, kill, kill.... Train some more. Finally, I found the politics frightening. Clancy's last two books have evidenced a particular fondness for police state tactics. Some examples which spring to mind were: the press misreporting Waco and Ruby Ridge, Oso expressing amazement when the terrorists were read their rights and arrested (instead of being summarily executed as implied)and Clark's statement that they were not bound by the niceties of the law. The depiction of the environentalist movement was so absurd as to be farcical. Overall, it was sloppy, wordy, mercilessly overlong and just downright disinteresting.
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Summary: A Superb Story Teller!!!
Review: To the reader from Rock Springs, Wyoming: If you never finish Clancy's books, then why do you continue to buy them and critique them? I thought this was an excellent representation of Clancy's talents. The action never stopped. I can't wait untill his next Jack Ryan book. I read that he already has a couple hundred pages written. Clancy is the Supreme Writer of our time.
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Summary: This book is made for motion picture
Review: My anticipation has turned into disappointment. The first hundred pages seemed to be very exciting then it stopped. I find the book to be very long-winded... Instead of 740 pages, the book could have been cut to 540 pages. I am very disappointed. His best book is Clear and Present Danger. Would I recommend this book? No.
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Summary: Miserable & disappointing
Review: This reads like a wooden Ops Center book, where we at least expect ghost writers. The characters have no individuality; the dialog looks like it was generated by a "Mad Lib" process (how many military types from different countries use "Fair enough" as a standard rejoinder?). The plot is beyond silly: not only do we have 3 basically similar setups to bulk up the book, but we also get the obligatory and pointless attack on Clark's family. The center in Brazil for the bad guys is only created in order to make the closing plot joke possible, and has no other reason to exist. Altogether, this was very disappointing. I've already stopped buying the Ops Center books. If Clancy can't be bothered to do a decent job, he shouldn't keep churning them out - he ought to have enough money by now.
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Summary: Detail overkill for 700 pgs, then rushed & sparse end.
Review: Clancy's last several books have been interesting reads, but not the well rounded efforts of Red October, Clear & Present Danger, and Without Remorse. When Clancy is on top of his game, you find the exhaustive detail-work of his lengthy set-ups to be fascinating and enhancing. It leads to a climax, a or series of them, that are equally detailed and thorough. When he's not, as in Rainbow Six (and his previous two efforts), the details are just formalities that come as Clancy-style literary baggage. I didn't throw the book down in anger when I finished it. But I was left with the feeling that the author had run out of energy and didn't want to devote the same attention to the books conclusion that he had to the massive text that preceded it, ... AGAIN!
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Summary: Clancy needs an Editor
Review: Clancy doesn't know what "bad guys" think, so he writes what good guys think bad guys think. His black and white view of the world works best when he minimizes character development and maximizes action. Unfortunately this book is loaded with the interior thoughts of his characters. Chop 200 pages off this book and it would be a passable thriller. For Clancy's next book, the most important "good guy" would be a competent editor.
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Summary: Disappointing plot and character development.
Review: I have long been a Tom Clancy fan. I have read all of his books, except for the OP-Center series. Executive Orders was and is a personal favorite. Rainbow Six is a disappointment. There is a formula feel to the book along with a manipulation of the reader to Clancy's political point of view. It is all quite obvious. The characters lack depth. The plot is contrived. Finally, at a time when we could do with some reasoned discussion of serious environmental issues, couldn't Tom have found other villians than "tree huggers" bent on killing off the human population to save the planet? Instead, Mr. Clancy has chosen to polarize the debate in a poorly written book.
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Summary: And he used to be such a good author...
Review: Poor Tom Clancy. The Evil Empire is no more, and he has to go looking for villains elsewhere. First Japan, then Iran, with plots becoming less and less believable. And now something that reeks of James Bond's standard "saving the earth from the evil madmen" scenario. I have read, re-read, and re-re-read pretty much all of Clancy's work, I own it all, and I dearly love most of it, but it's going seriously downhill. I will continue to buy his books, I guess, because I like the characters (even though I did miss Ryan in this one) and I like his writing style. I guess I'm a sucker for really thick bricks when it comes to books. But this one was the least enjoyable so far.
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Summary: I bet the video game is more exciting...
Review: While I would consider Tom Clancy one of my favorite authors and will probably buy his next book, I was pretty disappointed in Rainbow Six. I've heard that it is tying in to a computer game with the same name, and I'll be darned if it didn't unfold just like some adventure game. You have your "easy" levels (i.e., the bank, the mansion), "medium" levels (the amusement park, the hospital), and "hard" levels (the Olympics, the Project in Brazil and the mother of 'em all, Project Kansas!). I've loved all of his previous books, and consider myself an unabashed Tom Clancy fan, but the shallowness of this one left me somewhat disappointed. Still a page-turner, but not Clancy at his best.
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