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Summary: spectacular as usual
Review: Another great book by Clancy, a must read for all fans and a perfect book for everyone that likes action and speed.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!
Review: I've never read a book with so much action and suspense. Some people think that reading 900 pages is a waste of time but you can't pass this opportunity. I wish they make a movie out of this and show James Bond who the real action heroes are. It's worth every minute you spend reading Rainbow Six. This is a really really good book if not one of Tom Clancy's best books ever. Read this book before you play the game!
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Summary: Foolish, dated, poorly researched, lazy drivel
Review: The greatest problem with this book is it's dire predictability. From the start, we are given a series of absurdly contrived 1970's style terrorist operations that are thwarted by Rainbow, an unbelievable counter terrorist group made up apparently of the toughest soldiers on the face of the planet.... Meanwhile, a bunch of loonie environmentalists have decided to kill of just about everyone on the planet with a hardened version of the Ebola virus.I could have put up with the sexism, ignorance and the complete stupidity if it had been written with any verve, style, humour, irony or, indeed, inventiveness. Instead, the story proceeds like a train. It starts, it progresses to obvious, well sign posted points along the way. And then comes to a sputtering halt. Throughout its 890 very ordinary pages, there is not a single digression, red herring, plot twist or surprise. And if Clancy is going to write about Sydney and Australians, the least he could have done is visit and talk to some of us. According to Clancy, we all talk like Englishmen. There is no more detail about Sydney than you could pick up from a travel agent - he could have at least looked up a Frommers, a Let's Go or a Rough Guide (well maybe not a Rough Guide - probably too left wing for him...). He also fails to mention any significant detail about the Australian SAS, in particular their recent tragic history. All in all this book is a failure. It's plot is ridiculous and predictible, the writing is barely functional, the characters and situations are shallow and cliched. The saving grace is that it was well manufactured - after a week of reading it there were no creases in the spine.
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Summary: Terrorists vs the good guys
Review: Rainbow Six on my Clancy scale was a 7 out of 10. Reviewing a novel is better understood by comparing it to others that most of us have read, so prospective readers have something to measure it against. So I would say that Rainbow Six could be best described as a spellbinding novel of suspense and intrigue, it has the relentless pace and stunning power of The Triumph and the Glory, the behind the scenes military realism that is Clancy's trademark, the vivid imagery of Cold Mountain, and the style and flavor of John LeCarre at his best.
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Summary: Something familiar about the plot...
Review: OK, so I haven't read all the nearly 1000 reviews, but in the first 100 or so, I saw nothing about this, so I'll make my point. So, there's a big international conspiracy involving bio-war with several key incidents around the world connected to a horrific genocidal plan aimed at drastically (perhaps cataclysmically?) re-ordering world power, and all of it is stopped at the last minute by a series of heroic actions by the stars of the story. Along the way, there is maybe a cheap shot attack on the hero's wife and children, and even a top level traitor inside the White House. Have we seen a plot like this anywhere before? I was anxious to read this book after Debt of Honor and Executive Orders, but was disappointed to find that the above plot line fits both Executive Orders and Rainbow Six almost perfectly. The similarities between the books could be even greater, though since it has been over two years since I read EO, I can't point out more. While I realize that sometimes it is necessary for an author to re-use a plot device, I didn't expect such a fullscale copycat job from Clancy. I only gave the book 2 stars because of the way Clancy can tell a story, but I'll be very disappointed if the next book is the same as the last two.
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Summary: Not Good
Review: I just finished the book and I was disappointed. The realism of the plot, technology and the real-life type characters (that were hallmarks of his earlier books) have given way to story that is dumb. Not only are his books getting really fat --Tom: as a helpful hint, let an editor do some trimming-- but it is now populated by characters who are all super men, super dedicated and fighting to save the world on a just in time basis. While that formula may work for Robert Ludlum, it detracts from the believability that have made the earlier Clancy novels so entertaining, engrossing and keeps you eagerly waiting his next book.
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Summary: Rainbow 6
Review: Rainbow 6 was the greatest book I've ever read. It deals with a great amount of action for the SWAT team lover. It made me go out and buy the computor game.
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Summary: Tom Clancey has done it again.
Review: I personaly think that Tom Clancey has written another action/adventure masterpiece.
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Summary: Clancy returns to form
Review: Not his best, but Clancy is definitely getting back in the groove after several disappointing efforts. Thankfully, the ever annoying Jack Ryan barely rates mention here. Instead, the book focuses on a small band of environmental extremists and their plans to "save" the planet from mankind. The plot is well presented, and to his credit, Clancy takes his time in revealing the full extent of the connection between a series of terrorist attacks and the environuts master plan. We, the readers, get to savor the way the suspense and mystery build, and then are finally resolved. Of course, there's the usual Clancy trademarks - two dimensional characters and far fetched premises (one wonders how realistic the environmentalist wackoes plans are, but the same applies for a sub full of defecting Soviet officers (Red October) or a war on the US declared by Japan in the mid 1990's (Debt of Honor)) but the basic premise is an intruiging one - namely, what if a bunch of people as utterly devoted to extreme environmentalism as people once were to Hitler or Marxism decided to pull out all the stops to achieve their goals? The ending was mildly disappointing, with a Clancy-esque shootout as opposed to exploring the deeper philosophical issues at hand (namely, how should mankind deal with people whose ideology overrides their basic humanity), but overall the book hit the spot. And it was certainly an improvement over the past few Clancy efforts, which seemed to be little more than caricatures of earlier Clancy works.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This was on of the best Clancy novels I've read. This book starts out exciting and doesn't stop. I've read all of his books and I've yet to read one with this much action. You WILL enjoy this book if action is your thing
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