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Summary: Disappointing
Review: For some reaon I feel compelled to add my voice to the resounding call of disappointment found in the preceding reviews. I have loved Clancy's work from the start. However, this lengthy novel seems contrived at best. I got the impression that Clancy has run out of new ideas (using biological warfare a second time in as many books) and character development. Given the choice, I'd rather re-read "Wtihout Remorse".
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Summary: Classic Clancy! Detailed, accurate, absorbing.
Review: I am a Clancy fan and impatiently await each novels arrival in the bookstore window. Rainbow Six was my first Clancy novel on CD. I have been so enthralled with the novel via this medium that I have missed my exit on the expressway twice this week. David Dukes commands each character with a unique voice and compelling individuality via use of accents and inflections. Listening to this book as given it a dimensionalilty I have never experienced before. It is filled with the rich detail I seek in a Clancy novel. No one else can narrate a bullets journey in slow motion from barrel to head piercing and make me savour every moment. I recommend the novel, but for those of you fans who have never listened to one, I recommend letting David Dukes be your first. I have actually begun to look forward and enjoy my commute to work!
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Summary: Thumbs-up
Review: I would have to give Clancy the thumbs-up on this one--even though I agree with several of the above reviewers in that there are several editorial errors, and many repetitions. Come on, though--why do we read rather than watch TV? In order to leave a bit to our imaginations. The theme presented in this novel is staggering, and presents anyone with a shred of imagination with a riveting read. On one hand, it is easy to commiserate with the tree-huggers who want to wipe out the entire human population and start from scratch (albeit I'm not a tree-hugger), but one must also side with Clark's Rainbow team in their endeavors to stop Brightling and his Horizon Corporation. In addition to all this, Clancy makes the bio-war hazard seem quite plausible. Again, thumbs-up, and it'll probably be even better once we get to the second and third printings, sans errors.
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Summary: Is Clancey Really Writing This?
Review: What has happened to the man who wrote "Hunt For Red October" and "Red Storm Rising?" This unbelievable plot about enviormentalists trying to rule the whole strain credulity. With all this militia stuff happenings all over how could Tom ever believe that anyone why find this story interesting. Unfortunately, this is the last Clancy book for me.
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Summary: While entertaining, I was less than impressed
Review: Rainbow Six, while it had a strong beginning, simply failed to carry through on its seeming promise of a well plotted story. As usual, Tom Clancy gives us a well crafted and intricate beginning, planting questions in our minds and setting the stage for what could be a truly exciting story. Instead, it turns into stagy, set-piece sequences that develop and unfold with a plodding similarity and degree of interchangabilty that leaves the reader cold. One of the biggest problems with this story is that when you establish a group of characters as being the best in the world at what they do, then there isn't going to be any situation that they get into that they won't be able to handle and then overcome. Also, aside from a few key individuals, you never get a feel for the rest of the Rainbow team as little more than interchangable, faceless good guys. It seems to me that writing about such a team needs to define any and all members who are in the story. Sadly, even the main good guy characters themselves are not that interesting. I found that I was more interested in the character development of Popov, the Russian in the employ of the antagonists, than with any of the real Protagonists. But I did give three stars, and that is because Tom Clancy, as always, writes great, heart-stopping action scenes, which lend themselves well to this story. I was just disappointed because this time the story in between wasn't as good as I have come to expect.
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Summary: Suspenseful but slow. Good ending for political correctness
Review: I have been a fan of TC for several years. I thought the introduction of Clark as a main character was great. Clark is definitely not one of today's perfumed warriors. The reading was a bit slow but still kept me interested. The ending does show that even dark warriors have to obey some of the political correctness of todays modern world. If not all technically factual it does have plausibility and gives us something to think about. Looking forward to his next.
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Summary: Probably the worst book Clancy has ever written
Review: Reasonable first chapter, then an incredibly repetitive remainder, not least of all copying vast chunks of Executive Orders (also not one of his best !) High time he abandoned this cast of characters, and tried something new !
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Summary: A poor effort by Clancy-- recommend others.
Review: With this overly long book, Tom Clancy is opening the door for other thriller writers to gain the prominence they deserve. I personally prefer to read writers who have some background in what they write about, not those who invent everything. Stephen Coonts is a former combat pilot who knows whereof he writes. Bob Mayer, whether writing under his own name or the pen names Joe Dalton and Bob McGuire, is a former Green Beret who has a bunch of very good books out there begging to be read. Check them out.
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Summary: Just terrible...enough said
Review: Slogged through this one; too many hours of my life I'll never get back. I used to be a fan.
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Summary: I almost hate to admit I enjoyed this book
Review: I did enjoy reading this somewhat predictable book with a familiar plot. Why did this top secret, elite, counter terrorist combat team have to rely on a civilian British Airline to transport them to their terrorist targets. The ebola aerosol plot sounded really familier to me to. But it was fun to read in any case. Maybe in his next book he could have a president who's caught in a sex triangle in the oval office launch a cruise missile attack on an aspirin factory in Sudan!
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