Rainbow Six

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Summary: I enjoyed emensly reading this book.
Review: I thought this book was very good. I thought it was well written and continued in a long line of great Tom Clancy books.

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Summary: Worse than the Op-Center books - Utterly boring
Review: At least the Op-Center books were not as long. I thought his last book was tedious, but this was far worse. This is nowhere near as good as my favorite - The Sum of all Fears. I usually finish his books in 2 days, but this one took 10 days. I wish he would give up trying to proselytize people to his ultra right wing views and get on with writing good thrillers, and I usually vote Republican!

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Summary: Way off Clancy's peak.
Review: Rainbow Six was disappointing. On the positive side, the characters are familiar and comfortable. However, they've become so familiar, you know almost exactly what they will say before they say it. The villians were cardboard figures with no depth. I'll still read his next book. When he's on, he's great. {note: Editing was sloppy.}

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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I suffered through this book, and now remember why I swore off Clancy after "Patriot Games". PG was the FIRST time I ever recall a movie version being superior to the book. It got me wondering about who Clancy is and if he realy does his own writing. "Red Storm Rising" and "...Red October" had me by the jewels until the last page, but those two books Clancy gives a "lot" of credit to others. Is "Rainbow Six" an example of the "real" Clancy? It is boring, repetitive, and totally unbelieveable, plus it should have been half the length. The heroes are all sickly-sweet and the villians belong in comic books. Maybe this should be made into a movie, like "PG" it would probably improve it. I think I really will swear off Clancy now. I gave my copy to someone I don't like.

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Summary: If you want to remain of fan, don't even start this one.
Review: Clancy must have been paid by the word for this book. Redundancies abound! Not to mention the plot was neither original nor were the charaters believable. I think I'll give up my rule of 30 yrs. to finishing one book before I start another.

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Summary: Redundant and too long with a poor ending
Review: I was very disappointed and unfortuately wasted valuable time reading 740 pages that I would not suggest anyone else to repeat my error. Nice idea for the plot but it was too predictable. It seemed that the editor or Clancy had to wrap things up in one final chapter after writing and building the plot in over 700 pages... what a waste, and I was a Clancy fan!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Admittedly, I have been a Clancy fan since 'Red Storm Rising', and I was waiting with great anticipation for 'Rainbow Six'. However, I was quite disappointed with it. Upon reflection, I would have expected Clancy to cover more of the nuts and bolts of Counter-Terrorism (CT) Operations and the global approach towards Anti- and Counter-Terrorism, as he did for nuclear science in 'The Sum of All Fears', international finances in 'Debt of Honor', et cetera. It seems like Clancy did not put his renown effort and attention to detail into this book; as if he were checking the block, keeping the mill running just for the sake of keeping it running. Only if one were a true, incurable Clancy fan would I recommend this book but only for killing time on a flight. Otherwise, you would probably receive more entertainment value from Clancy's 'OpCenter' series.

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Summary: A complete waste of time and talent on this one.
Review: I've enjoyed Tom Clancy novels for so long. Without Remorse, Red Storm Rising, and Executive Orders are all very high on my favorite list. I KNOW Clancy has the ability to write good books, but he sure doesn't show it in this case. His super-invincible team of gi joes are completely unbelievable. I'm in the military, and I can tell you that even the best special forces teams couldn't come close to doing what Clancy's imagination dreamed up for his super team. So #1, the book is unrealistic. #2 The only character I felt Clancy was able to make "real" to me was Popov, everyone else was completely uninteresting. Half the characters in the book fall into the super-macho, 50's lingo spewing, and shallow category--which I didn't know existed until now. It really seemed like Clancy had other things going on in his life while trying to write this book, which clearly held more precedence for him than Rainbow Six did. I think Clancy should stop believing the hype that was created around him, he needs to deflate his ego (along with the egos of Chavez and the other characters in SIX) and realize he has to put some real effort forth to try and write a good book. I hope he knows how bad this most recent book of his was. He needs to stop trying to be a NFL team-owner and concentrate on what made famous in the first place, a writer. Its clear the quality of his writing has suffered from his over inflated ego, one that got too big, I guess, for him to keep his long time wife around. I saw him on the TODAY show and he came off as an arrogant bastard who didn't even want to talk about the book. I'll definately wait until I've read some honest reviews of his next book before blindly going out there and buying it. In closing, I know Clancy has talent, I just wish it he'd use it. I really feel like he's spread him self to thin with all the Op-center mini books and the cooperative books and games he's put out. Please Tom Clancy, stop all that crap and concentrate on writing books again.

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Summary: A lacklustre effort from the King of the Techno-Thriller.
Review: Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's latest novel, brings the reader back to the "alternate timeline", pseudo reality created by Mr. Clancy. Unfortunately for fans of Clancy's books, this weighty volume seems to abandon any attempt at depicting a "what if" scenario, which Clancy has proven himself adept at creating, and instead, reads like an indulgence to the author's apparent ample supply of testosterone. The macho, bravado ridden main characters walk through the pages, spouting lines one would expect to hear in a big budget action movie, and miss no opportunity to prove to the reader that they are, indeed, real men. Far from the spine tingling possibilities of Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and Debt of Honour, Rainbow Six provides nothing but a quick adrenaline fix. The plot is convoluted and not particularly believable, a dilemma which is not improved by the addition of several almost farcical characters who play key roles in the resolution of the novel. Granted, Clancy does bring back fan favorites Mr. Clark, and Chavez (not to mention a "surprise" cameo character from "Clear and Present Danger"), but they seem to be walking through their roles, and not displaying much of their former intelligence. Overall, an eight-hundred page indulgence by Mr. Clancy, which is not representative of his former work, and unfortunately, will probably turn a goodly number of readers away from a very competent writer. Better luck next time, Tom! We're all rooting for you...

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Summary: Are you sure it's 700 ? Wouldn't 70 be enough ?
Review: After reading 3 times the other novels with Jack Ryan and John Clark, and reading this one as fast as I could, I just wish it could've been faster. It seems that Clancy wanted to sell an Op-Center novel as much as the other ones, and borrowed threats from "Executive Orders" and a villain from "006 7/8" (doesn't even have a backup plan!). There's no time to think, not for the heroes, who deserved better, not for the reader. The new gadgets appear so obviously as "I'll be used" that you may expect John Clark becoming Q in the next 007 movie. A pity that the best character to appear in his books (the one who made "Clear and Present Danger" memorable) is wasted in a us-and-them-(we're the best of the best and we'll remind you every 60 pages)-bad-movie-plot. As everyone who watched "Jurassic Park 2" knows, lack of a good plot and characters can destroy a lot of good intentions. I hope that the next book will bring us joy instead of this urge to scream : "Why did you disappoint us ?"