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Summary: This looks like it could be gravy!!!
Review: This book is what you can call a epic. Well it least I think of it that way. You seem to know the chacters better and better and they are like you best buds when you get done with the book. But I should stick more to the plot. The plot is very very good and it does not really become apparent of whats really going to happen to about page 400. The boom!!!! put on your seat belt for one hell of rollercoaster ride of suspense, terror and tears!!! -Daily World
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Summary: Why is it rated so low?
Review: I have read all of TOm Clancys books so far. My favorite before this one was Without Remorse. Usually in his books I feel that I could have had just as good a book with 100 or so less pages. BUT NOT IN THIS BOOK. I had read all the reviews and noticed that the average rating was a 3. and I can not understand why. His last few novels have been longer than needed, and maybe not up to his high standards. Alot of authors fail to reach the heights they reached earlier. John Grisham is one of those...Once a great author, now a horrible BORING one. I feared that Mr Clancy was heading the same direction after the last two novels and the reviews here, but NO SIR! he is back with avengence! I can not think of editing out a single word of this novel. Do yourself a favor and pick it up... And while you are at it, grab Vince Flynn, and Steven Hunters latest... both are first rate thrillers..
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Summary: Rainbow Six-the action
Review: I don't know how this book got an average og 3 stars. It deserves 5. None less. If you only like Clancy books with Ryan in it, this isn't a book for you. Out in Great Britain they made a camp for Rainbow, an ant-terrorist group. This book has Clark (leader of Rainbow) and Chavez mainly. There are also many other people on the team, including Oso Vega (the biggest weight lifter). If you don't like this book, you don't have taste. I'm sorry. Nothing beats pure realism with explosive non-stop action. It also has an awesome plot. This book should have 5 stars.
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Summary: Tom Clancy does it again
Review: 740 pages? "Do I have time for this?" you might think. Well, you should make time for it or miss out on a great action novel. It goes at a fast pace, slow pace rhythm until it picks up at the end. Clancy goes to great pains to describe the thoughts of the SWAT team like members of RAINBOW and their surroundings. Going to all sorts of locations around the globe, RAINBOW finds action that is incredibly well written for them. The plot is fantastic and leaves you heaving for breath after a particularily tense part or one of several amazing plot twists. Clancy even puts all thoughts of a "tough to get into" book by starting out with a suspensful action part. In the end I found this book enormously satisfying even though it was indeed long winded at times. Final thoughts are this: if you want a book that will amaze you and be glad you spent up those hours reading it then you've found it.
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Summary: A good book, with minor flaws.
Review: Rainbow Six is one of the best books i have ever read, bar none. But hear me out. First of all, i have a great interest in secret ops and military/government operations. Secondly, I found that the plot was quite well constructed. While long-winded at times (repeating information, etc, hence the 4 instead of the 5), this is definately a great read- provided that you can find the time to get through it all. Overall, though, a great book worth the purchase.
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Summary: Rainbow Six
Review: I think Rainbow Six was Clancy's best. I loved the non-stop action. It's a book you just can't put down. Executive Orders has a better plot but Rainbow Six has better action parts and more of them.
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Summary: Another great adventure for Mr. Clark
Review: If you have never read a Tom Clancy novel before this is probably not the one you should start with. In my opinion, Clancy is the master at character development, which both good and bad. I love the way he develops his characters, but I hate that it takes so long to do it, but by the end of each book you will be glad that he took the time. "Rainbow Six" is yet another great story in the life of the infamous Mr. Clark. John Clark first rose to fame in the series of Clancy novel featuring Jack Ryan, and from the time he made his first appearance in "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" he has fascinated readers with his adventures. "Rainbow Six" finds Mr. Clark as the head of a top secret, elite, multinational anti-terrorist group. I must admit that I was riveted to the pages as the many characters began to come together in the fast paced climax of the book. If you have read all of the Clancy novels featuring Mr. Clark, then this is one you must read. If you haven't read a Clancy novel yet, I would start with my all time favorite "Without Remorse" and then move on to "Clear and Present Danger". But if you read this book, just remember it starts off slow, but then you better hold on.
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Summary: 97 degrees in Sydney in July?
Review: The book was fine (if you're a Clancy fan), but quite predictable and repetitive. The worst part, though, was the poor research. The Summer Olympics are being held in Sydney in July, and it's 97 degrees? I don't think so. Down under, it's winter, and in Sydney the temperature ranges on average between 46F and 62F degrees (according to my National Geographic atlas). This would eliminate the need for air conditioning and defeat one of the main premises of the book! This book was written way too fast. Clancy should be forced to re-read The Hunt for Red October five times before writing his next book.
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Summary: You Know You're Doing It For The Money When....
Review: I've been an acolyte of Tom Clancy since he was still selling insurance. My uncle, a Navy Sea Systems guy, got me _The Hunt For Red October_ when it was still a hardback you had to get from the Naval Institute Press directly, OK? But if the badly ghostwritten and error-laden drivel of _OpCenter_ and his other little "series books" weren't proof that fame has finally ground the cutting edge off of the poet-laureate of America's warrior class, he manages to come up with a goofy, convoluted porker of a book like _Rainbow Six_.OK, a multinational spec-ops unit would be a nice idea, but he had to put Jack Ryan in the White House to make it even vaguely plausible. Unfortunately for the bookish Clancy, this is NOT the sort of warfare that you can get out of _Jane's_ or a couple VIP tours at Quantico or Fort Bragg, and it just falls flat. You get the impression this one was done just to pay his alimony (Wanda still around or no?) or pay off his part of the Baltimore Orioles. Most of the new characters (can't badmouth Clark or Chavez, I've been through too much with both...) have all the life of the _Rainbow Six_ computer game and there are technical goofs and factual errors he would NOT have made when research was still his religion. This is the only pure-Clancy novel I finished at 0200, nine hours after I bought it, and asked myself "I stayed up all night for THIS?" I await his next one, in hopes the once-Master will redeem himself. Meanwhile, check out Steven Hunter's _Point of Impact_.
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Summary: The Best Book I Ever Read!
Review: This is the best book I ever read. I recomend the book and the game. But that is my opinion. So read it!
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