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Summary: Clancy is still the best techno-writer around!!!
Review: The only book I have not read by TC is Red Storm Rising. I could not put this book down. It amazes me how detailed and informative all Clancy books are and this is no exception. Departing from 'spy' novels unlike before, each character in the book I can easily imagine seeing. The depth of each scene is suspenseful. Just by reading a chapter's title I can tell the progression each paragraph takes the reader throughout. It's almost as if Tom Clancy himself is a spy with the details involved in each sentence. If you haven't read this book then your not prepared for the future of technology.
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Summary: Should really only get half a star.
Review: Repitious, boring, techno-babble that makes you want to skip pages. If I read the word "double-tap" (Dings' favorite word) I thought I might puke. Plot was too anticipated. It always seemed that I knew what was going to happen a chapter before it actually did. And by the way Tom, since your Rainbow Six warriors had had four or five missions in row, in a three month period, don't you think they'd be a little suspicious about the Olympics? I could think of a better way to release an airborne contagion than that. Australia is a little too isolated from the rest of the world to let loose a plague that is going to wipe out humanity.
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Summary: Clancy nails another one.
Review: Clancy wrote today's news yesterday. Clancy has an uncanny ability to look ahead and identify tomarrows issues and to write a novel based on the inteligence he has gathered. As with Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears and many other of his books. He writes a very plausible novel on issues that could be tomarrows headlines. He takes many subplots and blends them into one story. Rainbow Six while not one of his best books is still a must read.
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Summary: Entertaining...but lacking
Review: Tom Clancy, yet again, brings out a masterfully written piece of literature. From beginning to end it screams adventure, but that's about it. The characters lack depth (along with the plot), and the book is way too long, even for an espionage story. All in all, Rainbow Six is a great book to read when you have exactly nothing to do.
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Summary: Review of Rainbow Six
Review: I only give this book 3 stars because, although it is a good read, it still follows the Tom Clancy formula. For the first 200-300 pages, the read does not know what is going on. The next 300-350 pages shows the reader what is going on. In the final 50-150 pages the good guys learn what the bad guys are doing and save the day.
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Summary: What a scary eco-terrorism scenario!!
Review: Have read all of Clancy's solo fiction works, and this is very good, but not best ever. Could call it 4-1/2 stars.The plot is realistic enough to make you ask "Could this really happen?" Typical Clancy in its clever use of the latest hi-tech gadgets, only a few pages after the good guys get their hands on the new stuff. The story line gets off to a very fast start, and keeps up a good pace from there. I really like to get "hooked" in the first 10 pages of a book, and he did this masterfully. Eco- and other terrorists/crazies are clearly the greatest threat to the world today, and he paints an extremely scary scenario that makes you see how vulnerable the world can be. Can't wait for the next novel... keep up the good work Mr. C!
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Summary: Not the Clancy I knew & loved
Review: Rainbow Six is a long, drawn out, way too wordy, lousy clancy book. The plot is intriguing, but the book could have been written within 200 pages instead of 700+ pages. I have read all of Clancy's first 8 or so novels, and they were great. Then the next few I read, it seemed as though he had others writing for him, because the style, and especially the content, changed. I would not recommend buying this book. It is not worthy of the time it takes to read it.
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Summary: Rainbow Six, I love it !
Review: I have allways loved Tom Clansys books expecially Ruthless.com and Op-Center but they are nothing compared to Rainbow Six. The book is amazingly realistic in all ways and the plot is also very exiting. I read the book in about 4 weeks and couldnt stop until i was at the end. I recomend this book to all Tom Clancy "lovers" but also everyone who is interested of those Tom Clancys fantastic future visions.
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Summary: Full of factual errors
Review: This must be Clancy's worst book ever. He is rumored to have herds of researchers working for him - if so, they all should be fired. There are so many factual errors in this book from an author that is supposed to be extremely accurate in presenting the workings of special military operations. It starts with the supposedly German language bits (I am German) that are mangling the language to the extreme - you should only do this if you know what your doing. It goes on with the absurd misconceptions in virology and epidimiology - no, you can't help infected people with symptoms showing by vaccinating them, just to give one example. It goes on with all sorts of operational errors connected with aircraft - one of them is that no British Airways 737 will make it across the Atlantic. And then there are all those editorial errors in the form of "I want to meet you at one p.m.... so I'll be there at eleven... Ok, eleven it is." From a Tom Clancy we have come to expect accuracy - and that's why I'm dissappointed not to get it.
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Summary: Has Clancy sold out for a port to a computer game?
Review: It's no surprise that the Rainbow 6 computer game came out around the same time as the book. The book seems to have been written to make a computer game of it really easy, sacrificing a good deal of suspense once you realized his formula. Also, the book was too easy. No surprise that good defeats evil here... pretty boring read. Oh, the editing was lousy too. For all the eco-conscious verbiage in the novel, Clancy could have easily pared 100 pages off the final length w/o the reader noticing.
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