Red Rabbit

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Summary: Clancy was trying too hard with this one
Review: I guess this is one way to tackle the problem with what do do with a character who's climbed all the way to the top, won two wars, and made peace in the world. I got the impression that this book was never edited. Catch phrases are overused, and sometimes multiple characters describe an event or person in nearly identical language. It seemed as if some sections were included with the contingency that another, similar one, would be removed. They just forgot to do the removing.

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Summary: Hate to say it.....
Review: ....but I agree with the folks who gave it only 1 or 2 stars. I've always absorbed his books in a limited number of seatings (to my wife's dismay -- she never sees me until I'm done). With this one, I read the first quarter of it....put it down....and never picked it up again.

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Summary: Very Disappointed Clancy Fan
Review: I have read and enjoyed almost every TC novel that he has created, and can honestly say that this is the most disappointed I have ever been. The plot was predictable and without incident. The culmination was not intriguing. It took me two attempts to actually read the book. The first time through, I couldn't even make it through the first hundred pages, the story was very boring.

On a positive side, if you are new to clancy try reading without remorse or the cardinal of the kremlin. don't waste your money on this book though.

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Summary: Red Rabbit
Review: This book is slow to start and generally verbose. It is very straight ahead with nothing from left field to give the plot a few twists.

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Summary: What's happened to Tom Clancy?
Review: I read Hunt for Red October in two days...but it took me nearly two MONTHS to drag myself through Red Rabbit. It takes hundreds of pages to lead up to an outcome that is obvious from page 50. Because everything has to play out a certain way to match historical fact, there's no suspense whatsoever. And Clancy has turned Jack Ryan and his wife into flawless superpeople who are already the best in the world at what they do (spy/analyst and surgeon, respectively) in their early 30s.

I'd thought "The Bear and The Dragon" was bad, but it's a masterpiece compared to "Red Rabbit".

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Summary: Are you sure this isn't Clancy's first book??
Review: I think Clancy has ran out of books to write and he's just fulfilling his contract with his publisher for another book and so many words each year. The writing is so clumsy and boring it would fail any freshman English course. There is no action, nothing really interesting happens and once interesting characters have had a lobotomy. Clancy and his publisher should be ashamed of this one!!

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Summary: Red Rabbit
Review: This book could have been written in 50 pages. It is the worst Tom Clancy book I have read!

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Summary: Red Rabbit
Review: I consider myself a Tom Clancy fan and have read all of his books to date including, "Red Rabbit". this was clearly one of the slowest, most boring books that I have ever read. The characters spend hour after hour discussing things that have little to do with the plot.

The hisotircal accuracy of the novel is laughable. Not quite as laughable as the "Bear and the Dragon" where the historical facts were so wrong as to be rediculous. Here they just show an insulting lack of research. If Mr. Clancy is going to charge so much for a book, he could at least spend some of the money to have his historical facts checked out. He has Apple computers in use that were not available at the time of the book. He makes several references to Starbucks stock which was not available at the time.

The historical problems are only more evident because there is little in the entire book to keep your interest. At lest they give you something to think about while wading through the useless drivel.

As far as the suspense of the book. There is none what so ever. A communications officer in the KGB suddenly and inexplicably decides to defect. It makes you wonder why none of the other things the KGB had done previously had bothered him. He is spirited out of the Soviet Union in an infantile uninteresting way with no difficulty at all.

I feel terrible that this will be my last Tom Clancy book. So long Tom, I will miss reading your books.

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Summary: Tom Clancy? Not !!!
Review: The person who wrote "Red Storm Rising" and "Hunt for Red October" could not have written this book. The dialog is stilted and endless, the story is utterly boring, the characters (except maybe the rabbit himself) are shallow and just go through the motions, and NOTHING goes awry. Everything just happens, from the first contact with the rabbit to his arrival in the U.S. I'm thankful I got my copy at a used book store for ten bucks (and I get five back when I turn it in). If this was Tom Clancy, he's contracted the "Jean Auel" disease. (Read "The Shelters of Stone" if you dare, and you'll know what I mean.)

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Summary: BORING BORING BORING
Review: I am also, like most of you, a big Tom Clancy fan. I just finished Red Rabbit an hour ago and I was so peeved about it that I could not wait to go to Amazon.com and write this review. Unfortunately for all of us, this book is just plain boring. There is no suspense, no action, no nothing. I do not read Tom Clancy books to get a history lesson, so I don't care about whether or not the plot to assassinate the Pope was originated by the KGB. Even as a pseudo-historical fiction book, it lacks spice. Clancy has failed to capture any excitement in this book. Every time you think something is about to happen that would increase the action a little (say, something actually going wrong in the CIA's plan that would cause a little bit of adrenaline to flow), oops, all goes right according to plan without a shot fired or even a raised voice. I guess the history lesson learned is that all you needed to succeed with your spycraft in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s was a pair of red Reeboks. Clancy has used about 600 of the pages to establish Jack Ryan's character as a young early 30-something CIA analyst and another 50 pages to establish his wife, super-doctor eye-cutter Cathy as the world's best opthamologist (presumably, also in her early 30s - what, there are no 40 or 50 or 60 year old doctors in the entire world who are more experienced??!!!!!). Who Cares?!?!?! But I digress. And so has Clancy. The book jacket says "This is Clancy at his best - and there is none better." PLEASE! What a joke. I really cannot stand the direction Tom Clancy has gone with his last few books. The last book that I actually would bother to read again is Executive Orders. I suggest we read our Amazon reviews carefully next time and vote with our wallets.