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Summary: This book was excellent!!!!
Review: Rainbow Six was probably the best book I've ever read. Honestly, as soon as I picked it up I knew I was about to read something special. My favourite characters were John Clark and Ding Chavez. It scares me to think that there are people that are so commited and so deadly like these guys. In one word, I would say this book is AWESOME!!!
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Summary: Rainbow Six best used as a doorstop
Review: What a McNovel. The same phrases and cliches were repeated several times (why do people complain about the food in England......have you tasted this bread?), the characters never develop, what a shallow piece of trash.
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Summary: Action Packed Thriller!
Review: This is a great book except for the plot being repeated over and over again. I tould my friend's about this book,after letting them borrow my copy and they loved it. They all bought a copy of it. Go out and buy yourself a copy.
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Summary: (Just) 10 exciting pages
Review: When I read the book "Hunt for Red October" I became fan of Tom Clancy. His best one is "The Sum of all Fears". But when I bought "Operation Rainbow" (thats the name of this book in the german version) I really was bored. This book starts a little bit interesting. The kidnapping of the millionaire in Austria is written good and the Austrian Police is described, how it really is. But the large middle part of the plot is not very exciting. Some pages are really boring. Just the last 10 pages are exciting in the book.Not a very good book at all...
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Summary: Tom must have written this book in the back of a cab.
Review: Shall we rate the Clancy books? 1- Red Storm Rising; 2- The Hunt for Red October; 3- Clear and Present Danger; 4- Without Remorse; 5- The Sum of All Fears; 6- The Cardinal of the Kremlin. In the second division: 7- Patriot Games; 8- Debt of Honor; 9- Executive Orders; 10- Rainbow Six (Popov, at least, is an interesting character). A note about Clancy: I really wonder about some of his facts. I'm a geologist, and I've noticed how he gets geologic information wrong. In Rainbow Six, he has a geologist talking about how gold is found in a "quartz formation". "Formation" has a specific meaning in geology, and no real geologist would speak of a gold/quartz occurrence in this way. By the same token, in "The Sum of All Fears", he states that basalts have high background radioactivity, which is exactly wrong. This is not nitpicking. It makes me wonder how careful he is with the rest of his facts. I'd like to hear some comments on his accuracy from people who actually know military hardware and tactics.
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Summary: This is the worst TC book ever written! Like a bad sequel.
Review: So far, I have read and enjoyed all of TCs other novels. However, 'R6' ranks rock-bottom. After finishing the book, I began to question whether this book was even written by THE Tom Clancy I've come to know and admire. Over the years I have read other books on counter-terrorism, and the plot for 'R6' lacks plausibility relating to the subject. The plot and the characters seem to be out of a comic book. There were also technical inaccuracies to types of counter-terrorist weapons and tactics described in this book. The idea of having a powerful villian with the ambition to wipe out most of the world's population in order to create an eccological utopia is just too much like a generic 'James Bond' movie. Like my other TC books, I bought this book in its original hardcover edition. However, I am quite disappointed in this book. Cmon TC, I know you can do better!
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Summary: Not what you would expect
Review: Here's a quote. There are some questions in this life that we never can answer properly. Fortunately, the chicken or the egg question about the Rainbow Six game and book that's gone around the block in this space a couple of times in the past couple of days is not one of them, as Red Strom Entertainment's Jeff "Mad Samoan" Wand, modeler/artist on Rogue Spear, sends along what's hopefully an authoritative explanation of which is the cart and which is the horse here: The book was based on the game. The original concept for the game was conceived in a brainstorming session with Clancy. The original idea was that it be a 3D first person SWAT game, but Clancy threw in the idea of taking it on a grander scale and giving it an international antiterrorist angle. Some time later after the brainstorming session, he decided it was such a great idea that he'd make a book out of it, tie it in with the game, and maybe someday, a movie. Hopefully starring me.
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Summary: GUNS AND GOOD ACTIONS mixed with some boring parts.
Review: The actions and training scenes are great and at times explosive. Unfortunately, Mr Clancy's habit of adding(and repeating) too many sub-plots hurt the flow. If he can cut the lenght by 300 pages, this will be one of the best thrillers.
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Summary: IT WAS GREAT
Review: If you put this book down you are a BIG FOOL PS.YOU ARE ALSO CRAZY FOOL IF YOU PUT THIS BOOK DOWN
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Summary: This book was a complete bomb.
Review: Our Writer's Guild decided a few months back to discuss current fiction works by best selling authors. I had the misfortune of selecting Clancy's new book for review. I can't tell you what a let down it was. The characters are weak, redundant, and have too much irrelevant background information. The plot is boring, twisted, and has unresolved issues at the end. I also agree with the reviewer from Denver who read Brad Steiger's new book, Alien Rapture. It's the talk of our fiction group and is a gripping fast read with characters you'll never forget. Try anything by Steiger, Connelly or DeMille instead.
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