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Summary: Terrific plot, with lots of hidden clues.
Review: Clancy has again come up with a truly believable scenario for evil vs the rest of us. I really like the solution to the problem posed for extremest environmentalists.Furthermore, the plot raises some questions we all should ponder about our relationship to environment.
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Summary: Lively plot, boring prose
Review: Mr. Clancy's previous two books Debt of Honor and Executive Orders were excellent. This time, however, Mr. Clancy was obviously preoccupied during the writing of this book -- a divorce, an attempt to buy the Minnesota Vikings. This book would have benefited from some serious editing. The 740 page book should, by rights, be about 500 pages long. The excess is constant repetition. If I had to listen one more time to the summary of the bad guys' plan of action, I would have screamed. If I had to hear one more character say one more time that someone has "been there and done that" or any of another dozen cliches, I would have puked. Clancy's strength is drawing up an exciting plot. His weakness is trying to present interior monologues from his characters. He should concentrate on the plot and give up the monologues -- they are so boring. As for the plot, he is starting to rehash old ones.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: To put it simply Tom Clancy latest offering is just plain bad. Rainbox Six is basically an international version of Tom Clancy's Op-Center. The over all plot is totally unbelievable and something that you would expect from a James Bond movie, which one of the main character points out when after discovering the villians plans says "Who thought this up - Spectre?". Along with the ridiculous plot the villians in this book have the brains of Willie Coyote in a Warner Brothers cartoon. I am rating this book at 1 star only because I can not rate it any lower. My advice is not to by this book but go back and re-read any of Tom Clancy's previous novels.
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Summary: Good detail, OK concept, overdone politics
Review: OK, let's start with what was right. Once again, Clancy's eye for detail carried the book. The detail in the action sequences was up to his usual standard, and the book didn't drag in getting started.The concept, was OK, although he'd done bio-warfare once already, you can only find so many Big Bad Threats. I can accept that. However Clancy's politics were overpowering. A good author should be like a teacher. You know their politics are there, and if you think about it, you can see them, but the points are subtle and don't require hitting you over the head. Come on Clancy, give your readers some credit for an IQ larger then our shoe size. We handled Hunt for Red October, we don't need to be spoon fed the point! Additionally, it's not neccesary to write ONLY about Clark or ONLY about Ryan, you can include them both in a novel successfully.
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Summary: 5.5 out of 6.0
Review: This one's in the upper 87 percent of Tom Clancy's books. Althought I missed seeing a lot of Navy action in this one, there's another excellent mind-tweak as the plots come together!
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Summary: Tom Clancy's worse book yet.
Review: Unlike most other Tom Clancy books, this one is not well researched nor well thought out. The plot is almost regurgetated from part of his last book. He is extremely redundant throughout the book - he repeats parts of the plot so many times you cant help but skim though portions of the text. Usually Clancy is dead nut's on technical accuracy. This time however, some of the technical aspects of the book are pure fantasy - ridiculously so. Is it a good book? Well its fair as books go, but its well below par for Tom Clancy.
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Summary: Too much like Op Center
Review: Tom Clancy has written a hard cover version of his Op Center series. He uses his familiar characters but does not develop any new plot ideas. He borrows the Ebola virus from his previous book and sets Clark in an Op Center look alike. It looks like this genre may have run it's couse.
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Summary: Real Clancy, but going downhill...
Review: I don't know what's going on these days, but several of the good thriller writers are beginning to let their personal political beliefs get in the way of creating great fiction. First it was Clive Cussler, whose latest book is a nutty paen to xenophobia, and now it's Clancy (a much better writer) who lets his extremist anti-environmentalist views screw up what could have been another solid book in the Ryan/Clark series. What's really a shame is that Clancy is such a good writer that you cringe when he comes up with a preposterous book like this one. While the action scenes are up to his usual snuff, the plotting, characters, misogyny, conservative rhetoric and even some of the technology are just awful [sigh]. I've read all of Clancy's own books, and until now the works, while of somewhat variable quality, have generally been worthy of their length (unlike the godawful OpCenter and other series to which he lends his name just to make a buck.) Rainbow Six, however is the first Real Clancy from which I came away disappointed. Tom, PLEASE get an editor to go over the next book and go back to well-crafted thrillers...instead of this well-written but poorly crafted piece of polemic.
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Summary: Shalow, shallow, shallow
Review: Geez, Everytime Clancy writes a new novel it seems things get more and more the same. He seems to take marvelous characters and cut the heart out of them. Then just to top everything off, he appears on the back of cover looking like a fighter jock ready to launch off the Eisenhower. Has he perhaps become a "wannabe?"
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Summary: Good reading, but Rainbow 6 has weaknesses
Review: Good reading, Rainbow Six draws the reader in nicely. However, the plot has some weaknesses, the ending is a bit on the ludicrous side, and Clancy's "good guys" seem to be saying that anybody who cares about the environment is a complete nut and to be a "good guy", you've got to only want to exploit the environment. Clancy -- you should keep your politics out of your writing. It's a lot more interesting to read when you stick to what you know.
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