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Rainbow Six

Rainbow Six

List Price: $31.95
Your Price: $21.09
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Nothing New
Review: Nothing different than other Clancy books. Something new would be good

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Read This all Tom Clancy fans!!!!!
Review: I got the game Rainbow Six for Christmas and it is the best first person shooter ever, so I got the book. It turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read. Tom Clancy draws you into the action with his description of it all. It's that good. Many people complain about the length and the price of it. But who cares if it is this good. Tom Clancy drew me into his book and I think you should be drawn into it too.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Slow paced, technically inaccurate story.
Review: I had heard many people say that this was one of Clancey's best books. In reading it, it is a slow paced story with many technical innacuracys and one could take out a couple of hundred pages and not miss anything. Would not recommend this book to anyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IF YOUR A LOVER OF TOM CLANCY, THIS IS A BOOK TO READ
Review: This was my first Tom Clancy book i ever read. I picked this book, because i have the game Tom Clancy's rainbow six. I thought the game was very good so, i thought the book would be too.

I have a subscription to PC Gamer magazine, and they had the first chapter of the book. I read it and i was amazed, by the visual picture Clancy can put in your mind! The next day i went and bought the book and started reading.

This book is a great book if you feel like you need some action in your life. It's my favorite book I ever read. If you read "WITHOUT REMORSE" you NEED to read this book, trust me. It stars John Clark, and his son Ding Chavez. This is a thriller, read it forget the high price it's great price here on amazon.com.

BYE IT- I READ IT IN ABOUT 2.5 MONTHS, FOR A 16 YEAR OLD YOU THINK IT WAS GOOD, IT WAS. 740 PAGES IN THAT TIME. READ IT!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was awesome!!
Review: I have read just about all of Clancy's books and this one is one of his best!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: sweet!!!
Review: This book is incredibly suspenseful and action-packed

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best book I've ever read!!
Review: The best of Tom's latest works. Unparalleled. Kept me on my toes the whole book!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Clancy doesn't care, so why should I?
Review: When, many years ago, I read my first Clancy work (The Hunt for Red October) I was thrilled. I expected, as the author developed his writing skills, that his natural storytelling abilities would make for utterly fabulous books. For a time, this seemed to be occurring. But then Clancy's books began to get fatter while his characters became thinner. In the middle of one book I realized that every person spoke exactly the same way (why does everyone in his stories call doctors "Doc"?). Likewise, other than basic motivation (some are good, others are bad) the supposed people in the Clancy universe all act the same way.

As a result, I stopped reading Clancy about five years ago. While not exactly personally insulted by him, I felt he didn't respect me very much. Am I dumb enough to spend $20+ per volume and the value of the time it takes to wade through 700+ pages when he can't be bothered to envision and create unique (read: real) characters to people those books? I decided there were better writers (even within Clancy's genre) and I would focus my time and money on them. Ever read Gabriel Garcia Marquez? A little light on the gadgets, but he doesn't repeat his sentences and the characters lead complex lives that motivate them to do strange and human things.

Which leads me to "Rainbow Six." I have a sister who works for a book club. She got a copy of this book for next to nothing and gave it to me for Christmas. So I read it.

Clearly Clancy hasn't lost a step when it comes to story concept, gadgets and scripting action sequences. During some passages of the book his natural gift in these areas overcomes the actuarial nature of his prose. But I kept wondering what motivated the men of that elite team (all of whom, despite their varied ethnic backgrounds talk the same way). All seemed to be just supermen, dying for the opportunity to serve king and country. They didn't seem to think about the whys of their jobs or have any emotion (other than post-conflict elation) regarding the results of the triggers they pulled. Can you really kill men, even really bad men, on a regular basis without the least bit of moral stress? But Clancy doesn't write those kind of books, I told myself. If you want self-examination, read Camus.

So I fought my way through the whole book. Amazed when Clancy gave a glimpse of the skills I once thought would become as much a strength as his techno-fetish. More frequently I was dismayed at the many examples of careless writing, poor proof-reading, and discontinuity.

But what put me off Clancy forever was his handling of the fate of the Rainbow team. I hope I am not giving away too much when I say that toward the end there is an ambush and several members of the team are killed. Not a single member of the force shows an iota of emotion over the loss of their comrades in arms. In fact, none of them ever mention it. They barely seem to notice despite months of living, training and nearly dying together.

Maybe that is the kind of men they are, you might say. I don't know, Clancy has given us no glimpse of their psyche. But I think he gives every reader a glimpse of his own when he fails to even name the team members who die. It is apparent that these men were not characters, just cardboard cutouts to be trashed after being used for target practice. And if Clancy doesn't care about his people, why should I?

Clancy has huge potential as a writer and a storyteller. He continues to squander his abilities because he earns tens of millions for the slipshod work he does now. He gets that money because people continue to buy his books. And that is probably why each book he writes reads more like an exercise in commerce than in creativity.

As a footnote, I would bet the audiobook of "Rainbox Six" is better than the unabridged "dead tree" version. First of all, the script for the tape has been edited (which probably can't be said for the book manuscript) and any half-decent actor could add more personality to Clancy's characters with an accent than Clancy has attempted with his writing. With a decent director, screenwriter and cast, "Rainbox Six" (like most Clancy works) would easily make a better movie than book.

Bottom-line: If you like Clancy or aren't discerning in your reading habits (take my mother, she'll read anything available at the used book store) "Rainbow Six" may suit you just fine. If you like books that make you think and feel, or are just well crafted then spend your money elsewhere.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This was the best book I have ever read!
Review: Tom Clancy out did himself this time with this fast paced novel, I couldn't put it down it was so great.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great
Review: This is one of the best books I have read


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