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Summary: The Greatest Book, Rainbow Six
Review: This book is about an antiterrorist group called Rainbow who gets caught up in the biggest terrorist plan ever. This thrilling novel lets you meet the best soldiers in the world. Tom Clancy is an ex navey seal so he knows what he's talking about. This action packed book is the best I have ever read. The story pulls you in from the start and keeps you reading till the end. If I were to rate this book from 1-5 I would give it a 6 if I could, but 5 will do. The only bad part of this book was having to finish it. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Clancy Displays His Arrogance
Review: If Clancy had cut about 300 pages of repetitious internal monologues it might have been at least readable. He didn't. Clancy thinks quantity makes a good book. He proves that wrong. The plot was unbeliveable. The characters flat and poorly motivated. Clancy is obviously not a student of human nature--not even to the extent of creating believable villans. The premises in the book are completely implausible. Thousands of people banding together to kill off humankind--with almost perfect security? Right. He doesn't even bother to check the tempertures in Sidney in July. It's winter there, John. It's cold. It's not 97 degrees F. He proves that all it takes is a big name to sell a book. I'll never buy another one of Clancy's peices of trash. I've been burned once. I won't be a fool and be burned again.
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Summary: One of Clancy's lesser efforts.
Review: For anyone else, this would be a pretty decent techno- and action thriller. From Clancy, I expect more. _Rainbow Six_ is flawed but OK and enjoyable on the first read, but it has almost NO "re-read" value whatsoever, and that's a first for this particular author (at least in the Ryan and Clark series).You know, there are two things that particularly disappoint me about this book. Until reading this, I used to compare Clancy to Charles Dickens for the way in which he developed the minor characters in his works, and I got laughed at by a lot of people for doing so. If the characterization in _Rainbow Six_ is going to be par for the course for Clancy, I might just start laughing at myself very soon for making such a dumb statement. The characters in _Rainbow Six_, aside from the fascinating Popov and perhaps Ding Chavez (whose character, however, is developed and analyzed far better in other books in this series) , are extremely shallow and unbelievable. Clancy has somehow managed to turn what was once an overwhelming strength into an obvious weakness. And, Tom, while you're at it, could you perhaps come up a form of central disaster other than an Ebola or "Shiva" epidemic? If Clancy's next Ryan or Clark book contains any reference, except in passing, to biological warfare or bioterrorism, he's going to have one less reader. While _Rainbow Six_ is preferable to any of Clancy's non-Ryan/Clark oeuvre (other than _Red Storm Rising_), it ranks dead last in that series. One can only hope that his forthcoming continuation in the Ryan series is a return to the previous and recent high standards he set with _Executive Orders_ and _Debt of Honor_. For Clancy completists only. DEFINITELY not the first book by Clancy to read, and if it was the first Clancy book you read and you were disappointed, you may want to give him another chance - he's usually not off by this much. :-) Any of his other books in the Ryan/Clark series would serve as a better example of the REAL and considerable talent of Tom Clancy. This is just me talking here, but my least favorite Ryan/Clark novel besides this one is a tossup between "Without Remorse" and "Patriot Games", both of which are about 10 times better than this book. As a final aside, this may be the only time in history that a computer game based on a book is more interesting than the book from which it was adapted. :-) Sorry, Tom, but it's the truth. Better luck next time. :-(
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Summary: Read the book NOW, or you'd be missing a writing masterpiece
Review: This is a great book. From the opening hostage situation with the Spanish Ambassador's wife on the 767, to the whole great plot to kill everyone in the world, Clancy clearly knows how to write a great thriller. It was a great idea of his to write another book with John Clark, and it was good that he brought back Oso Vega and Domingo Chavez to work together. Between the bank robbery, the rollerpark incident, and the Brazil invasion, Clancy has written a masterpart.
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Summary: Not bad, not great but decent enough for a read.
Review: I think the title sums up my views here. It is a good book, but nothing spectacular. It's at it's best during the terrorist takedown scenes: these scenes are fascinating and exciting. Finding out about the men's training is also extremely interesting. When the book is doing this, it's a page-turner. However, the character aspect is kind of week, I never felt that Clancy wrote very good characters. But thats okay, because that's not what this book is about (i feel he goes way too deep into his characters in this.)The book is also bogged down by severalt pointless waste-of-time subplots. So, overall, a good read, but nothing special.
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Summary: The Man is a Genius
Review: What can one say about Tom Clancy? His writing may not live on throughout history with the likes of Shakespear, but it will hold a small niche in our society. Clancy is a brilliant man, whose plots are as complex as enjoyable to read. The review by "A reader from Europe" should be totally disregarded. S/he is simply angered by the fact that America has such a prolific author, who by the way has written a number of non-fiction books and is quite intelligent, and that that author tells the truth, which contradicts that readers own narrow perceptions of Europe being superior. Please, no one run from this book because of that one person, it is simply brilliant, and quite enjoyable. I recommend it to anyone with enough free time to get through it.
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Summary: Bad, Bad, Bad...
Review: This is the first, and surely the last, book written by Tom Clancy that I read. The book is realy predictable and boring. And even worst, it seems that we, the Europeans, are so dumb and incompetent that we need a superman called John Clark (a USA citizen of course), leading a suposed international team (essencialy a USA team), to solve our terrorism problems. I don't see the reality when an European country needs a US-controled team to solve their problems on their territory. Austria does have an elite police team, Spain also, but in this book seems that this teams are completly useless. And in the case that an EU country needs police aid, they surely would ask to the EU members, not to a US controled team. This makes the book completly ridiculous, but there are also a lot of research mistakes. One of the terrorist actions take place in Port Aventura, in Spain. The Port Aventura that Tom Clancy describes is absolutly imaginary, stupid, and realy insulting for the Europeans, including the ridiculous attraction "The Stuka". Also the image of Basques is insulting, it seems that all Basques are terrorists, but Tom Clancy perhaps don't know that only a few Basques are terrorists, and this terrorists are not stupid(despicable of course, but not stupid). In the book the Basque terrorists have Spanish names, not Basque ones. And the Basque terrorists never make terrorist actions outside Spain and South of France. In resume, a total waste of time and money.
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Summary: Clancy gets better and better!
Review: When I finished reading this book I was only left with onethought; AWESOME! That, and when is Clancy's next book due out? Thiswas an incredible work of fiction and a great enjoyment to read. I love Clancy's other works but this is my favorite by far. He has really spun a great one here. The characters here think and act like real people, and while this can be boring in some novels( who wants to read about real people? just kidding) it is a treat in this one. The plot is great and the bad guys are bad. Great beginning, holds you the whole way, and the conclusion completes it all. (What else is a conclusion supposed to do?) A very good book that you must buy if you seek huge entertainment.
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Summary: Rainbow Six
Review: Action. Excitement. This book has it all. This book is about a group called Rainbow. Rainbow is a group that stops terrorists and rescue hostages. The members in Rainbow are highly trained and come from all over the world. This book has a lot of action and is very exciting. The detail in this book is amazing and makes you feel like you are in the book. All of these things make this book very interesting and good. This story also has a very well written plot. The book takes you on very realistic missions that will excite you. All of these things make this book one of the best I have read in years. I enjoyed this book and I think other people will enjoy it too. I would recommend this book to people that enjoy action books, because I believe that this book is very exciting and action packed.
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Summary: Bloody Excellent!
Review: "Rainbow Six" was the first book of its genre that I have read. In fact, the book had been sitting on the shelf for nearly eight months before I even touched it (which I did only at a moment of great boredom). However, after getting to page 300 or so, I devoured the rest in 2 days! The complex plot branches off in amazing, mostly unforeseen ways, and Tom Clancy spares no details - Graphic or otherwise - and that is guaranteed to make this book as close to a roller-coaster as a book can get... The closest thing to a flaw I could point at is Clancy's stereotypical characterisation - All characters are stereotyped - The "All-American G.I. Joe", the sly, conniving Russian spy, the German "Arnold Schwartzenegger" ironman soldier, etc. However, rather than look at this as a flaw, I found it rather amusing - It gives the plot a slight comical aspect. All in all - A good read.
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