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Summary: Atrocious. My last Clancy book.
Review: How very sad. I've read all of Clancy's non-fiction (not counting the ghost-written pulp he puts his name on) and they have steadily declined since the Sum of All Fears. His right wing paranoia has overtaken his ability to write a plausible plot. Character development has never been a strong point for Clancy, and here he has taken his least interesting, most one-dimensional character and surrounded him with a *team* of uninteresting characters.This isn't a politically based review. One *can* write a book on eco-terrorism, however, Clancy's villains here are completely wrong and I can think of no real world equivalent. This is not just a book to be set aside and put away; it is one which must be hurled as far as possible, while yelling as loud as possible.
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Summary: Beware of the "tree-huggers"
Review: That first novel I read by Tom Clancy and after the first pages I knew his books will soon dominate my private library for English books. They style he wrote is quite weird. Sometimes you think: "hey, I could have been writing that" But Clancy really has a feeling for details that makes "R6" become something very good to read even for people who's mother language ain't English (like me). The multi stranded way of telling many story that melt together into one big story is amazingly well done. At the beginnig it might a little hard to remember everybodies name and function. As soon as everything goes together the book ties you into your chair and doesn't let you go until you finished. By the way, don't let your self be scared away by those 897 pages because you will be through them even earlier as you actually want.
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Summary: A review of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Review: Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy is an exiting, thrilling book because there is a great deal of action, there are many thrilling fights and brawls, and there are many dangerous situations with bombs, guns, and firearms.One of the dangerous situations was when one of "the banks glass doors opened and a man in civilian clothes dragged a body onto the sidewalk. It seemed to be a man but his head was a red mess." A place in the book that had action was when "they heard a loud metallic crash that shook the whole world." A good fight was when "the phisician reacted by dropping away from the gunman behind him with his hands over his head." In conclusion the book held my attention and was an action packed thrilling book with fights and many dangerous situations. The book also taught me all about terrorist attacks and how they are handled.
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Summary: First class!
Review: This is Tom Clancy at his best.The plot continually develops itself in a logical and compelling way and the descriptions of action are extraordinary for realism and sequence.I truly believe that Tom Clancy has the writer gene in his DNA and he costantly proves this!5 stars!
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Summary: Ranibow Six Review
Review: My opinion of the book is that is was a great one. All of the characters in the book are the best the world has to offer. This includes the best troops from the US Navy SEALs, US Army Rangers, US Delta Force, The highly trained British SAS, French Special Forces, US Special Ops. Aviation Unit, and the German GSG-9. This book also brings the return of two of my favorite Clancy characters, Domingo Chavez and John Kelley a.k.a. John Clark. The book also brought in the newest arsenal of counter-terrorist weaponry and technology. I could hear the gun shots from the H&K MP-10's. The new 10mm version of the MP-5. By far I think this is the best Clancy novel and suggest you read it. I loved this book so much I even purchased the game, and hopefully there is a movie in the works.
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Summary: A greatly detailed and realistic book
Review: Tom Clancy gives so much detail in the story that you almost believe you are there. You can practically hear the gunshots, the orders, the helicopter overhead, etc. Tom Clancy puts you there and allows you to almost perfectly understand the life of a secret anti-terrorist group and the life of terrorists.
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Summary: Another Strong Performance
Review: Tom Clancy continues to come up with topics that are not the "run-of-the-mill". He has set such high expectations for his work that I expect a masterpiece everytime. This book comes off as close to his other strong books. I would recommend this to any other Clancy Fan.
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Summary: good but lags some
Review: all in all a great read. I felt that some parts lagged but other parts had non stop action and I coudnt put it down. I would reccomend this book. Also I would recommend BLACKHAWK DOWN. it tells a more realistic tale of war in somalia in 1993.
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Summary: Bizarre and unbelievable plot, long, but somewhat enjoyable
Review: Aside from the contrived and ridiculous plot, "Rainbow Six" is too long. I would guess that at least 300 of the roughly 900 pages should have been edited out. It is, at times, painfully redundant. Everytime some important (or not-so-important) plot element is mentioned, the same multiple-page explanation is given. The plot: A conspiracy lead by the radical-environmentalist head of a biotech company and the president's science advisor to "Save the Earth" by killing off the world's human population with an Ebola-derived bioweapon. They are foiled by our heros, the Rainbow para-military antiterrorist group, led by "Rainbow Six." The details are even more ridiculous involving the olympics and a live virus "vaccine." The characters are shallow and the subplots simplistic and predictable. I expected much more from the author but I did enjoy reading it.
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Summary: Limp Ending, Farcical Plot, Wooden Characters
Review: Now, we all know that Tom's not the greatest at building three-dimensional people for his novels. In the past, I would have answered that criticism with a cheery "Who cares?" In "Sum of All Fears", the protagonists weren't exactly what I'd call fleshed out, but who gave a hoot? The suspense and plot twists just kept on coming, and I'll take a solid plot over elegant characters any day if I'm in the market for a thriller. Alas, the suspense I've come to enjoy never surfaces in Rainbow Six. The climax of the book - a guy gets busted in a utility access closet? But even after ending the story, Tom can't muster the decency to euthanize the project. Instead, he just dribbles on for another hundred-odd pages so the evil environmentalists can get their comeuppance. Which brings me to my second beef with the book. Let's see, if you are concerned with complex environmental problems, you are . . . an environmentalist? No! You are a homicidal maniac with ambitions that would make Stalin blush. This is especially ironic given Clancy's wealth of military knowledge. Two recent military interventions (Haiti and Somalia) were responses to social collapse in those countries. The cause of social collapse? Environmental problems - deforestation, topsoil loss and crop failure in Haiti, droughts, floods and crop failure in Somalia. Throughout the book, Clancy maintains his anti-green rant in a tone which suggests Rush Limbaugh with a toothache; unlike Rush, though, he's not even funny. Ah yes, almost forgot - characters. Women (provided they're gestating) are saints straight out of Dickens; otherwise they're bitchy zealots; ze German Kommando ist big und muscular, and the whole cast is just wooden enough for employment on the nearest chessboard. In short, an eminently forgettable entry, contrived, shrill and unforgivably dull. If you want the real thing from authors who can write (or at least plot), try John LeCarre or Fredrick Forsyth.
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