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Summary: The movie for this book will be in black and white.
Review: "They made me write it," or so Tom Clancy would seem to imply. Perhaps he is disinterested with his past style, or maybe this book fulfills a contract. Rainbow Six is analogous to Beethoven played on a Casio toy keyboard -- the talent is hidden somewhere, but the result is too mechanical to be enjoyed. Those who have read his other (very good) stories must, of course, read this superfluously opinionated sermon/novel. A word of caution: be prepared to bulldoze your way through every tedious, exhausting minute of seemingly never-ending verbiage. As a die-hard fan waiting with sweaty palms, this book was most disappointing and irritating.Rainbow Six belongs at the grocery store next to the "Bran Flakes," with a stark white cover displaying in large, black letters only the word "CLANCY."
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Summary: Too long, but somewhat exciting.
Review: This book is really a great thriller if you havent read Clancy's other work. The book is too long to be an excellent thriller. Some parts are excellent but other than that this is a book to skip.
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Summary: Deja Vu all over again
Review: Having enjoyed his books in varying degrees, I found Rainbow Six to be Clancy's weakest written effort to date. A repititious (from past novels) and predictable story line. IRA terrorists, biochemical terrorists, dumb terrorists and super hero good guys. I was always waiting for the "bad guys" to get killed, so that I could be surprised in the next chapter. But, I never was. The most interesting character in the book was Popov, whose background and previous lives would be worth a few hundred pages. In the past, I found Clancy to be worth the while when he was describing the intrigue, the passion behind both good and bad, the political maneuvering, spy. vs. spy, and his ability to start with 10 story lines and weave them together to a page-turning finish. With Rainbow Six, he seems to be setting up a firing line for which Rainbow practises upon. One dimensional characters with inter-changeable names whose prime focus in life is to train, shoot, kill, train, shoot, kill and look manly at one another in the way that those who look manly at one another can only understand. The ending was the worst part. Mass murder through blips on a screen, the stripping of the survivors (to which Carol Brightling didn't seem to mind or shy away from...oh boy), and cleanliness of how everything was wrapped up (the lack of judicial process, the restructuring of Horizon, and our Russian entrepeneur). All this within....5 to 8 pages.... even the flight from Vancouver to Washington by the Air Canada jet took longer. Buy the book (at discount or in paperback) only if you want to belong to the group of those who read it, who didn't like it, and get to write about it.
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Summary: If You Like Clancy, Then Get This Book!
Review: Unlike some of Clancy's other books, Six reaches out and grabs you right away. From beginning to end this book intelligently entertains the reader. The missions of Mr. Clark's special counter-terrorism team will have you on the edge of your seat, and will keep you turning pages. Rainbow Six is one of Clancy's best.
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Summary: This is not Tom Clancy's best work.
Review: RAINBOW SIX is not a classic Clancy. After reading it, I felt that I had been burned by a new author. The fresh perspective is gone. If you loved the "OP-CENTER" novels this is for you. If you expect a quality novel this is not it.
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Summary: First Clancy novel read...Magnificant
Review: First Clancy novel ever read. First, I was not sure about the length (740pgs.). Once started reading, I could not put it away. I was greatly impressed with his writing. He gives great discriptions and uses exact teminology. I loved it so much, and plan to read as many of his other novel as possible. Highly recommend!!
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Summary: I agree with earlier reviewers-- read someone else
Review: My recommendations after reading quite a few thrillers this year: Bob Mayer's special forces books. Try CUT OUTor DRAGON SIM-13.
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Summary: Private Ryan with live amo aimed at ...You!
Review: Tom Clancy is at his suspense filled best. This time I really ask myself how'er they (Clark & Ding) going to get out of this one? This makes Flash Gordon, Tom Mix, Hoppalong Cassidy and John Wayne look like pikers! If I had to pick which book was the most thrilling of the decade, I would have said The Firm, until I read Rainbow Six. I found myself yelling at a book! ...Look out! ...Duck! Get the long un-abridged version ...it's the only way to out Clancy, Clancy.
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Summary: A boring, repetitive imitation of Tom Clancy
Review: As a die hard Tom Clancy fan from his first book on, how disappointing it was to discover this re-hash of Clancy standard themes that is mostly fill. I have my doubts if he did all the writing himself -- it smacks of pay-by-word. The plot has absolutely NO credibility and is slightly silly that he would ask us to suspend belief to this degree. Clancy was an embarrassment on the Larry King Live show. He seemed to have absolutely nothing to say -- just like his latest book.
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Summary: Not up to Clancy's abilities
Review: Quick synposis of the book: Clancy builds bad guys out of straw and shoots them in the head. Poor characterization, zero character development and a very predictable plot make _Rainbow_Six_ a tedious read. The bad guys are written as just plain evil and seem to be a punching bag for Clancy's political views. The good guys have no flaws, are super wonderful and never lose (or really even make mistakes). Only "red-shirted" ones we've never met get killed. They seem to solve all of their problems through lucky breaks and via direct revelation from the author. I'm expecting the next novel to be about evil, rabid, Ebola-infected kittens which the Rainbow team will spend the novel running over with steam rollers. Clancy has done well before so I thought that the awful _Executive_Orders_ might have been a fluke. This one was even worse. Maybe the problem is that Clancy is now so popular that he doesn't believe in editors anymore. _Rainbow_Six_ looks more like a draft than a published novel.
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