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Summary: Entertaining but with weaknesses
Review: Rainbow 6 is pleasant to read and interesting. The military are too idolized and idealized but we've come to expect that from Clancy. However, although he strains for a pretend objectivism, his distate and contempt for ecologists is a little too obvious. The suspense goes nicely up but you lose interest after the hospital crisis and the ending is disappointing. And there is something definitely spooky about the young hero already planning to make a Soldier/killing machine out of his just newly born son, wether you're pro-military or not.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I really like the realism of this book. Clancy really isn't reaching to far in his story. This book is a great action-packed thriller. The characters aren't developed massively but I think the pages he invests in a few of the characters makes it worth while. This is a book that people who want a action-packed thriller but don't want to get cought up in a massive web of deception should read.
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Summary: A Popcorn Novel
Review: Like most of those who have slammed this book in their reviews, I was once a big Tom Clancy fan, however, his latest work is mortally wounded by Clancy's overly preachy undertones, uninspired action sequences and a complete lack of development for both the good guys and the bad guys.His political views are pretty apparent, I would bet $200 he votes Republican. Though one might call some of the fringe environmental issues debatable, I don't think even the most right wing types out there view everyone who cares about the environment as a completely insane wacko. Those who like to go into the woods and make bang bang with big guns like Clancy have to admit that at least a passing concern for the environment is a must. I sometimes couldn't tell if I was reading a fiction novel or a ballistics report from an ammunition manufacturer. Also, as much as some of his more testosterone supplied readers might like to read descriptions of 10mm hollow point bullets entering bad guy's skulls, it takes away from the usually accurate and realistic tone of his other works. Reading about people's faces being turned into "pink puffs of vapor" might be enthralling for weekend Navy SEALS, but anyone with any combat experience dreads the thought of being put in any situation where such is necessary to do to someone else. I don't mind a novel or even a movie using such descriptions to enhance some sort of realism (i.e. Saving Private Ryan), but anyone who enjoys such thoughts as much as Clancy apparently does (with the sheer volume of text devoted to exploding craniums), scares me. Even the world's best counter terrorism units have amazingly high failure rates in close quarters combat... which is why most scene commanders heavily resist their usage, even under the most optimal circumstances. Rainbow seems to not have these problems at all. Other complete lapses of tactical accuracy are shockingly bad compared to the usually sharp knowledge Clancy displays in other books. As shallow as the anti extreme environmentalist plot was, it is only aided by half baked development of antagonists and protagonists which leave the reader only really caring about one or two people at the most. "Ding" has got to be one of the worst nicknames in the history of writing. Back in the cold war days, Clancy could deliver "black and white" participants who's general thinking conformed to the two main real life organizations who trained and paid them (the CIA and the KGB), however with the demise of the Cold War, much more diversification is required, and I don't think Clancy can deliver. All in all, where the classic Clancy novels got one thinking about the dreary outlook that the global political stances adopted by DC and the Kremlin, or the middle east's effect on world politics, Rainbow Six serves only as an "Popcorn Novel." Entertaining for those who don't know much about the technical aspects of which Clancy writes, but not the sort of work that ignites the mind any longer.
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Summary: This book ROCKS!!!!!!!
Review: This book kicks hard-core ass!!! The elite group executes every mission perfectly. I'm an ex-Navy SEAL and I think that John Clark is a perfect example of what I used to be. This elite force will knock you right off your feet. I read the other reviews and it seems like they didn't even bother to read the whole book. Take it from a SEAL and read this title.
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Summary: A Top-Notch intense realistic anti-terrorist novel.
Review: This is Clancy at his best (though they are almost all). Rainbow 6 brings realism in alternative world organizations once again. If you need a story to get you interested, go buy Rainbow 6 today at amazon.com (or your local bookstore)
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Summary: A MUST READ
Review: I read alot of Tom Clancey books but this is byfar the best book he has written. I have one word for those who said this book wasent all that great: I would like to see you write a better book. If u have not read this book yet READ IT.
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Summary: pure garbage
Review: I haven't read a clancy novel since Patriot Games, now i know why. How many times can we hear the same one dimensional characters mouth or think the same monotonous drivel? This book is plotted at the level of a nintendo game, first mission; handle the hijacking on the plane, second mission; handle the terrorists at the bank; third mission etc... Clancy fails utterly to invoke any depth into his characters. The bad guys (which are referred to as "bad guys" about 500 times in this massive pile of crap) are consistently the same self-deceived zealots, time after time, and the good guys after killing the bad guys move into the same self satisfying passages of supposed reflection. His portrayal of environmentalism and environmentalists is a pathetic and transparent attempt to vilify politics and ideology he clearly has no understanding of, merely to serve as the punching bag for his own right-wing longwinded philosophy. I can't believe i read this junk.
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Summary: Hands off!!
Review: Don`t read this book, it isn`t worth the time and money! No real characters in this book, just killing machines on both sides of the law trying to look at least a little human, but failing. Lots of stereotype impressions. The only good thing is the tension during the counter-terrorist attacks but everything is over soon and you have to wait for the next terrorist happening because the story between the action is so boring.
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Summary: Excellent Work!
Review: This novel continues Clancy's great writing style and finesse in his "real book" series, as I like to say. I have read some of the Net Force and Op Center series and they seem to be cheap attempts just to make a few bucks, but the Clancy "super-novels" are still his best works and will continue to be. Keep writing these "super-novels," they are GRRRREAT! RB6 grabs you and DOESN'T let you go! INCREDIBLE!
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Summary: Splendid! An action packed thriller!
Review: Please don't listen to the negative reviews posted. This book is not a spy novel so don't treat it like one. It is about a anti-terrorist "S.W.A.T." team. It is exciting, action packed, and detailed. Give it a chance please, I loved it ! If you like the game Rainbow Six, this is the book where it all started.
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