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Summary: Fun
Review: This was the best book I have ever read. I like how the spies where those special Uniforms. the characters did many exiting stuff. I gave this book 1 star because it taught children bad stuff. This is the most wonderful book I have ever read. cheap too! I would recomend it for you.
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Summary: Not too hot on details
Review: I found this book a good read - just like all the other Tom Clancy novels and I have read most of them - but being from Australia I found myself huffing at the lack of accurate detail about Australia and the Olympics. I understand the book was written some time before the Olympics was due to happen and well before the release date of 1999 (obviously) but it wouldn't have been that hard, surely, to find out a little bit of information about Australia's political and police structures before writing it into the book. Bill Henrikson flew from Sydney to Canberra for a meeting which should have taken place in Sydney with the New South Wales police commissioner and authority being granted from New South Wales' Olympics Minister! I enjoyed the book despite the fanatical Americans are the best attitude but the lack of correct detail on Australia - which would have taken five minutes on the phone or the net to get right - was a bit hard to swallow.
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Summary: Outstanding. Hard to put down.
Review: T. Clancy has been dissed for writing in too much detail. But in Rainbow Six, he has seemingly found a fine balance: He has been able to avoid too much technical minutae which led me to skip whole sections of other books (like The Sum of All Our Fears). At the same time, he has still included enough information to give the feel of authenticity. This combination makes for a very informative and still entertaining book. This cannot be read in a day, or on one plane trip. But it is great to take on a vacation, when one has several hours over several days to devote to it.The story has been discussed above. Suffice it to say that Clancy has put together a string of plausible ideas (save perchance the eco-terrorists overall grand design). Unfortunately, we are so used to terrorism these days that each of the other terrorists acts are things we have come to expect on the evening news. Like another reviewer, I find Domingo Chavez and John Clark to be a couple of engaging recurring characters. I wonder what will happen to them next, and worry that like John Ryan, they may get to the place where there is nothing left for them to conquer. We ain't there yet, though, and like thousands of others, I anxiously await their next adventure.
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Summary: An action packed book
Review: This is a very unique concept. Bringing all of the special ops people together to fight terrorism This book had a very good plot. Raising a villain from the KGB to spearhead the plans of the evil billionaire was a very good idea on Clancy's part. John Clark proved himself very competant playing the lead role in this book. The Rainbow Six groups confrontations with the Terrorist factions (including the IRA) made for exciting reading. A very good book. I certainly hope he does a sequel.
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Summary: NO JACK RYAN, BUT STILL A GREAT READ!
Review: Tom Clancy once again shows he's the "master' of adventure thrillers. This is scary stuff, luckily "Rainbow Six" is up to the task. May be not quite as good as Clancy's "Jack Ryan" books, but Mr. Clark and Mr. Chavez handle the situation, barely in the nick of time. A fine novel with a fitting ending.
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Summary: Tou Lee's review of Rainbow Six
Review: This lengthy action-packed novel by Tom Clancy is a must have in everyone's library. Greatly detailed, with many great characters, and with many little sub-plots that all come together at the end to form the main plot, this book will have the reader into the book constantly. If you need a great book with a little bit of everything-espionage, sniping, terrorism, and plain good guy versus bad guy, than this book shall not disappoint.
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Summary: Glad I read it
Review: This was my first Thomas Clancy novel, and it was definitely a commitment to complete 900 or so pages. Fortunately, that was not a problem. This novel, though flawed, is still impressive. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Special Operations, training, technology and techniques. I personally found myself MORE interested in the development of the biological weaponry, though, possibly because I hadn't read any of Clancy's other works. I understand from several of these reviews that this particular plot device has been heavily recycled from his other efforts. The themes are skillfully interwoven into the story but the answers are left up to the reader to ponder, for example: (1) How does one come to choose between dedicating one's life to doing good (ie, working to prevent/cure disease) vs. evil (destroying 99% of the world's human population)? How is the decision impacted when the so-called good choice has negative consequences (further increasing the population) and the evil has positive ones (saving the planet)? (2) Does the end justify the means? Is it OK for hunters to kill if they use the meat? Is it OK for counter-terrorists if they save lives? Is it OK for scientists if they save the animals and the planet? When all was said and done, I enjoyed the book, but I had the following minor quibbles with the writing: First of all, certain characters are presented, somewhat developed and then completely dropped, never to be heard from again. For example, whatever happened to Dr. Barbara Archer, Skip Bannister, Kevin MacDonald (President of the Sierra Club)? Secondly, when some of the good guys are killed off, they are tangential to the story at best. In fact, after finishing the story, I couldn't have even told you their names. Thirdly, the odds are heavily stacked in favor of the good guys from the beginning and the story thus fails to generate a great deal of suspense during the terrorist take-downs. Although the confrontation at the Olympics was not the climax of the story, it was a letdown. The only real question was whether Team-2 would get the necessary information in time, and the alternative was just not plausible. Fourthly, the story tries too hard to cover all the bases, but it just doesn't gel. The only way a former KGB intelligence agent like Dmitry Popov could take SOOOOO LONG to figure out the scheme was if it was so farfetched as to occur only to a madman. However, the author takes great pains to point out that John Brightling was NOT a madman, and that he had legions of people devoted to the same idea. I had trouble swallowing these contradictory positions. Finally, the entire environmental movement was portrayed in a negative light. Just what is going to happen to the planet if we don't wake up and start taking care of it? All-in-all, an engrossing, action-packed read. Enjoy!
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Summary: Best Tom Clancy Book Ever!
Review: I thought that this book was just about one of the best action books that I have ever read. It was full of action and was very, very life-like. I thought the details that Tom Clancy included were spectacular. And once again he used a great writing style that made you feel like you were one of the members of the "Rainbow Team." The plots that we interwoven throughout the book were some of the best that Tom Clancy had ever written. They never got boring and were full of facts. This book even inspired me to go out and buy the computer game that was based off the book. Overall I give the book a perfect 5 stars!
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Summary: Brilliant! A real page turner!
Review: I have always loved Tom Clancy's writing but 'Rainbow Six' was absouletly brilliant! I didn't want it to end! Since finishing it, I have not been able to find anything else that satisfying? Can anyone recommend anything?
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Summary: Good idea, but too many words
Review: I liked the plot and the characters. It's a good premise with fascinating possibilities. Clark and Ding Chavez are two of Clancy's best creations. But the book is just way too long. It would be a solid hard-to-put-down read if Clancy could be a little more concise and spare us having to read every single little detail about each character, weapon, locale, building, vehicle, thought, device, action etc. Puh-leeeease! I like the techno-babble, but he's losing control! Clancy is getting to be like a person who loves the sound of his own voice. He should take a lesson from Elmore Leonard and keep the story moving. Or better yet, think back to the books that made him famous such as The Hunt For Red October and The Cardinal Of The Kremlin - Both less than 600 pages. This one has too many words!
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