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Summary: An unbelievable windy techno-thriller.
Review: I waited until Rainbow 6 came out in paperback and I'm glad I did, not just for the sake of my carpal tunnel but also for my wallet and sense of having my time wasted. Mr. Clancy should next try writing about Spanish galleons and clipper ships: his long-windedness and tortured writing would propel those ships along at great speed. In this latest epic macro-series, Mr. Clancy has the world being threatened by those liberal tree-hugging vegetarians who want to save the world by killing all but a few thousand of the planet's residents. Do you hear faint strains of something like "we had to destroy the village in order to save it?" The incredulous plot has a team of scientists working for a major biochemical company producing an ebola-based bioagent (does this sound familiar) that will kill everyone on the planet. We have the usual cast of FBI, CIA, KGB, MI6, MI5, SAS subjects and other assorted acronyms and numbers who are blissfully unaware of this menace until the very last minute when our heros rush to the rescue. I'm sure Mr. Clancy intended this book to be a thriller, but it's far more enjoyable reading it as a farce. No mas.
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Summary: Has Tom Clancy fired his editor?
Review: You have to wonder if Tom Clancy has fired his editor. This book is much too long. Which is too bad, because the basic story is good and the action sequences are very good. However, it would have been a much better book if it had been boiled down to half its size, or even less. In order to get at the story, you have to wade through page after page of pointless introspection, needless description, and unnecessary dialog. As a long time fan of Clancy's work, I was dissapointed. == Come on Tom, you can do much better than this.
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Summary: Tooo....much reiteration.
Review: Don't get me wrong, I love Tom Clancy novels but this one had a couple of hundred pages of discribing stuff that everbody knows already, and more than once, instead of developing the story. This could have been a great novel. Sadly it was far below Clancy's best. The only reason I finished it was because it was written by Clancy and I wanted to see how the stars of the story did their thing, IE Clark and the boys. The real star of this story is really Popov
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Summary: Sickenly verbose
Review: This was my second attempt at reading Clancy and it will be my last. I've read thru boring, repetitive, slow, drawn out submarine chases in "Hunt for Red October" awhile back and thought maybe this would be an improvement but no such luck. This book is just a slow and drawn out and wordy. After drudging thru 500 pages the plot finally starts to unfold and makes sense but it's still disjointed. The other pieces unfold after another 100 or so. What's worse is that he's not even a great story teller. He definitely knows his stuff, I give him credit for that, but when it's overdone it becomes banal so how interesting can that be to read. You might as well read an encyclopedia.
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Summary: Clancy is still GREAT
Review: I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN READ IT RIGHT AFTER 'THE TRIUMPH AND THE GLORY' ANOTHER WINNER, BYT HE WAY, AND CONSIDER IT CLANCY'S BEST BOOK SINCE THE SUM OF ALL FEARS READ IT, AND ALSO TRY 'CUBA' AND 'ENDER'S SHADOW'.
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Summary: Better the second time
Review: On second reading, about a year after the first reading, I am much more impressed with RAINBOW SIX. Perhaps the 4 or 5 novels by Clancy-wanna-be authors I've read in the meantime have effected my perspective. Simply put, no-one comes close to Clancy in this narrow action genre. RAINBOW SIX may not be quite the equivalent of WITHOUT REMORE or EXECUTIVE ORDERS, but it is miles ahead of anything written by the copy-cats. In RAINBOW SIX Clancy added a new element, a mysterious conspiracy. The action sequences alternate with the unveiling of the mystery. Unfortunately, much of the mystery plot is implausible. Readers thus rush through the action and character-development sequences, not fully appreciating them, to get to the mystery sequences, which are ultimately unsatisfying. As a result, readers are disappointed with the entire experience. The action sequences and character development, are good by Clancy standards, terrific by comparison with anything else in the genre. As to plausibility, as one of the creators of the very first Earth Day, I do not find the fanatic environmentalists in any way implausible. I've known such people, intimately. The science too, is perfectly plausible. It is other, relatively irrelevant, plot elements which are implausible.
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Summary: Clancy is a disturbed individual
Review: The meat heads depicted in the Rainbow six team and their review on how it's miller time after we wack the whacky terrorists is a little disturbing. Here's a uestion to all you readers: Has mister clancy ever been shot at before? Better yet has he ever shot at any one before? With real bullets? Well boys and girls if he has, he's badder than rambo. If he has not he's a wanna be meat head. Having seen things in real life like the counter terror crap depicted in the book we can honestly say it is not all that "hurrah lets go kill some bad guys master cheif shit." it is about human life and someone's remains on a concrete wall, not a pretty thing. It smells bad, it's messy and it is hard to forget about. Little bits of teeth brains, you name it all that was once a living thinking human being who happened to be in the way of "state policy." Where I grew up, people disapeared all the time and demonstrators were killed on a regular basis. Ever seen a body after something like that? Clancy makes it sound it's WWF followed by a Dorito's comercial and monday night football. "With a handy dandy squeeze of the trigger of his berretta..."- NOTICE a Berretta. For all you who didn't know, these pistols suck, the slides break all the time and they jam, but here we go with a classic Clancy sell out- he was paid by the beretta corporation to market their 45 acp pistols. (like Marcinko and HK in his books)It's sad how clancy uses Berretas for his macho meat head ultra badass I eat cornflakes out of your skull frosted with government grade PCP GIJoes on crack charecters) "The FBI guy splattered his brains out maaaan like it was so cool master cheif" -pathetic. If he ever saw something like that for REAL he'd be horrified. So if you want to be part of the meat head mentality, and fall into the dillusional society that brought us two teenage kids who went to school to kill some jocks with shotguns and trench coats and if you beilieve that might is right and all that flag waving I want to be in the navy crap crap read Rainbow six you might like it. PS his british accent charecters sound like four weddings and a funeral.
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Summary: By far not Clancy's best.
Review: For the most part it was a pretty good book, but was way to involved. For example, when they talk about John Clark's house( main character) they go into three pages of the houses history. Mostly it kept me wanting to keep on reading, though, but some parts were so boring that I wouldn't pick the book up for a week. If this was his best, It would take me about one half the time it took me to read. The story was very exciting( unlike anything anyone has ever writen), but could have been writen in about 400 pages not 740 pages. If you haven't read this book and your a action packed kind of guy( or girl) this is a good choice, but just good.
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Summary: "Filled with non-stop long range sniping action"
Review: If your a Clancy fan, this is a must read book. Not his best, but you still can't put the book down. The suspense, action, and overall excitement is fantastic
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Summary: well crafted theme of rain and light
Review: Clancey's use of instinctive notation registers his reader with facination. An awakening to the now. A plot that hits close to home, he confronts the harsh political reality of our current world community.
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