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Summary: Rainbow Six:Lots of Pages
Review: Wait for the paperback folks. The Clancy well is going dry. Old Tom should read other works like Lady President, Blind Mans Bluff or Fortunes or War.
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Summary: HAS GREAT DETAIL IN EVERY ASPECT OF ANTI-TERRISOM
Review: THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST OF FAST PACE READING. CLANCY HAS BEEN ABLE TO WRITE A BOOK THAT IS HARD TO PUT DOWN AND IS GOOD ON FACTUAL INFORMATION. THIS IS A 5 STAR BOOK IF I HAVE EVER SEEN ONE.
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Summary: Worst Clancy Work Yet!
Review: This book should not be read unless you have read ALL of the others first(not includining OP CENTER). Failure to take this advise will cause you to miss out on some truly fantastic writing. This book should only be used for kindling to start a fire, it is truly horrible! The story line begins slow, as with most Tom Clancy. The characters are well known to those who have read the other books, so interest is kept in this regard. The story never gains momentum to keep the reader interested, it is truly an effort to finish. In my humble opinion the climax of the story is about 2/3 of the way into the book. The ending is totally unexciting. Where is Jack Ryan?
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Summary: A decent story, but far from Clancy's best effort
Review: While John Clark and Ding Chavez are two of my favorite charactors in the Clancy stable, the story of Rainbow Six was among the slowest, most laborious books I have ever read. I have read all of Clancy's novels (including the Ops Center series) and concluded that this story was more a rip off of the Ebola-scare plot in Executive Orders than the fresh storyline each of his other novels have been. Even the sequel nature of Debt of Honor/Executive Orders was fresher and more interesting than Rainbow Six. I have normally finished each of his other novels in one or two weeks because the stories grab you and you can't put the book down. I took me months to finish this one. The only reason I did finish the book was out of loyalty to Clancy.I will buy and read his next one, but I hope it's much better!
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Summary: What has happened to Tom Clancy?
Review: I've read six or seven Tom Clancy novels, and this was by far the worst of the lot. I could barely finish it, and when I had, I donated my copy of the book to my local library. "Red Storm Rising" was great - moderately plausible plot, interesting characters, shades between good and evil, enough technical detail to keep one's interest. This book had a totally implausible plot, a collection of cardboard characters (GOOD/BAD), an absurd ending filled with shooting fish in a barrel... It is hard to imagine that this would have been published if it had been written by an unknown author. Very disappointing!
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Summary: An exercise in flat military machoism
Review: Well I hate to say this, but the companion computer game that followed the release of the book held my intrest and kept suspense more than this 800 page flatliner from Tom Clancy. The book focuses on an international anti-terrorist team that gets caught up in a corporate conspiracy to destroy the world in the name of Nature. The characters were dull and boring and, unlike Clancy's previous work, the book didn't seem to keep much suspense. The way he tackled the pending doom of the planet seemed dull and unimportant. The weight of man's power to justify his own actions as the right ones seemed to be lost. The characters of John Clark and Ding Chavez seem grosely macho and had that I-embody-every-virtue type feel to them. It almost seemed like I was reading a pamphlet praising the army, like military propoganda. By the time I reached page 500 I was ready to throw it aside but found the will to finish it only because I wanted the sense of accomplishment. In the end, Clancy brings up a chilling concept that seems real and devistatingly possible but destroys it by not examining the other sides of the fanaticism that is quelled by the Rainbow team. I'd say this is an easy one to skip and definatly not up to the standards of a decent Clancy read.
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Summary: This is inane --almost funny! - Clancy'e worst novel.
Review: I've read all of Tom Clancy's novels and have enjoyed most of them. This book features a completely illogical plat - poor character definition - inane dialoque. If this had been Clancy's first novel - he would not have had a second - don't waste your time or the money.
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Summary: Not his best, but still good
Review: As much as I have been a Tom Clancy fan over the past 10-plus years (I've read every one of his books at least twice, and my personal favorites of his are "The Cardinal of the Kremlin", "Clear and Present Danger", and "Debt of Honor"), this was probably not his best novel. That's not to say it wasn't good: it was definitely vintage Clancy, but not with as much depth as we're used to. One problem I had with it is that he neither portrayed Peter Covington's team as much as Ding's, nor did he develop Peter's character effectively enough. Yes, we know who Peter Covington is, but we know very little about him. I understand that this was a story centered around Ding and Mr. C, but we could have (and should have) seen more development both of Peter and of his other team characters. On the other hand, however, the premise for the story, I thought, was frightening, to say the least. In describing the virus the way he did, how it was developed, the delivery system, etc., he turned that part of the story up quite effectively, in my opinion. I was impressed by that aspect of the novel, and it had me on the edge of my seat. The only thing that I would probably take issue with was that he portrayed the people involved with this (the Brightling's, Popov, et al.) as one-dimensional characters; not enough development there, either. I suppose he'll just have to work on that next time around. Despite the flaws, I found it overall to be a solid Clancy novel and I would still recommend it.
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Summary: Clancy is getting a little too arrogant for my taste.
Review: He believes we will buy any schlock with his name on it. Unfortunately, it appears true. But not for me anymore. I have a very short list of authors who I will buy in hardback, rather than wait the usual year for the paperback. Clancy has been dropped from his list as of Rainbow Six. I should have dropped him as a result of the Operations Center series. A friend of mine, a retired Marine officer, and myself made a list of factual errors (we stopped at six pages adn they were easy-to-find and correct for the most part)from that novel and concluded that either Clancy didn't do his research or simply allowed his name to be put on the book for money. I don't think he ever read at least the first two books; he just sold his name to make a buck. Reading an interview with him on the Internet several months prior to the publication of Rainbow Six, it seemed evident that the book's draft was being provided to the publishers with way too little time to do a decent edit. He even seemed to take some delight in this fact. It also seemed that the book title should paraphrase the title of an album put out some time ago by a rock band: "The Contracturally Required Album." This looks like "The Contracturally Required Book." His right-wing rant is revved up full speed in this one as his hit list turns from political terrorists into environmental extremists, so-called "tree huggers." Whatsamatter, Tom? Did someone stop your from building a heli-pad at your Maryland redoubt? Clancy needs a strong editor big time. His books are becoming increasing turgid and even boring in places. Lack of precision, repetitive phrases and situations, and lack of cohesion abound. Rainbow Six (and Debt of Honor) were about 300 pages too long. IMHO, Clancy has made his big bucks and is now taking us, the readers, for granted. While his narrative skills still exist, as shown by many good pieces in even these books, he's riding his ego hard in not letting an editor make it a good read all the way through. BTW: did anyone else notice that Jack Ryan is (apparently) not mentioned by name anywhere in Rainbow Six? he is always "the President." understand his soon to be ex-wife is asking for a share of the "Jack Ryan" intellectual property rights as part of her divorce settlement. This is the same ploy the USNI attempted to use when Clancy took his books to another publisher. They lost; will his wife? Want a consistently good read with a huge backlist? Go over to W.E.B. Griffin.
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Summary: Too bad the Project didn't succeed, sparing others from this
Review: Although not as awful as Executive Orders, Rainbow Six confirms that Clancy's basic formula is worn out. I am left questioning whether or not we need a new cold war to get something tolerable out of this fellow.
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