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Summary: I've never read the first draft of a novel before.
Review: This is a novel that may be worth more in the second edition -- after Clancy and the publishers hire an editor. References to a "Kansas tornado" twice in 20 pages; using the idiom "faster than zipping your fly" more than three times; referring to a character as both "Tim" and "Tom" in the same paragraph. Not to mention all of the completely ridiculous military and medical errors in fact. I actually started hiliting errors until my pen ran out of ink. You'd think an 800-page book would have rich character development and meticulous detail. All it had was glib references and redundancies. Tom, I know you needed this one done in a hurry, but you owe me $30. I would, however, like to thank you for giving me strong forearms and biceps. That's about all I got from what was far and away your worst book ever. I hope you're as embarrassed about writing it as I am about reading it cover to cover. One bad one in ten isn't a bad average. If you're planning on making it up on your next one, that's great. If not, then please, don't bother sullying your once-impeccable reputation.
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Summary: Not up to Clancy's standards...the formula is over used..
Review: I have read all of Clancy's novels. I even buy them in Hardback because I can't wait to emerse myself in his world Jack Ryan etc. This anticipation magnified my dissappointment with Rainbow 6. This is a formula book with way too much formula. I found reading this book like jogging, you have to push yourself not to give up.
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Summary: Great promise, but a disappointment in the end.
Review: The main strength of the novel is its main idea - an all-out war on terrorism. Clancy focuses on John Clark, Domingo Chavez and other characters who have had minor roles in previous novels. While the action scenes were exciting, there was not much transition between them. Finally, the book appears to be targeted to the general population, and thus appears to be more of a financial endeavor on Clancy's part than anything else. In short, I did enjoy reading the book, but its quality was less than many of his other books.
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Summary: The best Clancy book yet!
Review: Rainbow Six was a cunning novel which combined Clancy's skill as a military historian with his knack for writing engrossing fiction. Definitely the best book yet!!
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Summary: Please, before this is released as a paperback...
Review: ...*somebody* needs to edit it for spelling and punctuation. The errors are glaring. It's distracting to read.And here's an idiom that is used too often: "for him, killing is as automatic as zipping his fly after taking a leak." Interesting the first time. Do we have to repeat it again and again? I always expect the best from Tom Clancy, and he should hold his editors to the same high standards. I remain an avid Tom Clancy reader.
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Summary: Absolutely Terrible
Review: Tom Clancy has gone from bad to worse. Both "Executive Orders" and "Rainbow Six" have basically boiled down to Republican manifestos and Clancy's own paranoid delusions. In this book, the Rainbow team is basically invincible and the battle sequences are all the same. The end of the book was too short and was not very satisfying. Clancy's books have become longer but lack the character development and plots of his earlier works.
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Summary: VERY GOOD. BUT NOT GREAT
Review: It's really a good story. But I like it when the end of a book is the best part. This is not the case with Rainbow Six. The best part is the first half. After that the story is a bit boring. The book would be the best if the syory was told in 600 pages instead of 800. But it's good to read.
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Summary: Third Class Clancy
Review: I've enjoyed all of Clancy's other works, especially the concise way he changes venues and characters. This had very little of this. Muddy character descriptions, almost no plot, just vaguely interconnected scenes, (some that don't appear to connect until 2/3 through the book), and the worst villians I've read in a long time. His book reads like half political diatribe and half like the first draft of Executive Decision. This one should be missed completely and allow Mr. Clancy a chance to try again, this time without the political undertones.
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Summary: Non Stop from Front to back!
Review: Everything about Clancy's work is fanitasic. The characters, the story, sub plots, and more. I found it difficult to put down on many occaisions. A must Read!
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Summary: Clancy outside his realm of expertise-Weak in the extreme.
Review: Proof that Clancy is extremely stale. I was left with a feeling that he threw this one together on a whim without much, if any, forethought or research. This was stunning in that Clancy is THE master of research and detail. Having come to expect that bit of realism Clancy usually achieves by a mastery of technical detail, Rainbow Six was an utter disappointment and waste of time. The story was so incredibly farfetched as to be fantasy. This, in itself, would not be fatal but for his failure to develop that fantasy in anything but the most rudimentary way. Rainbow Six is simply shallow. Even in that puddle, Clancy waded in way over his head with Rainbow Six. Where his research and detail usually provide an ample life raft, this time he sunk like a hefty 700+ page bore.
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