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Summary: Former Clancy addict.
Review: Terrible!! Clancy sold out? It seemed as if he had a minimum page count he was trying to meet and saved the story for the last few chapters. I don't expect action on every page but at least something besides a history lesson in the 1st 600 hundred pages would have been nice.
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Summary: BLECK!
Review: I have read every book Clancy's written (not those ghost written Op's Stuff)-this is not worth the paper it is written on. Seems like he was showing off his knowledge of the 80's - not impressive that he remembers an Apple 2+ cost $3,000 originally and spent a lot of time talking about those new "VCR's". Zero action...zero intrigue. Not even anything to keep your interest. I threw it across the room when done-I felt better.
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Summary: come on amazon, make a 0 star option
Review: the tom clancy books are great and action packed, but this book is just a discrace its DEFIDENTLY nto worth 20$, maybe its worth a dollor, but not $20 theres 0 action until your about 20-30 pages from the end of the book basically, its like the first 400 pages are slow and all say the same thing i'ld recommend any tom clancy book accept theis one to anyone if your going to buy a tom clancy book, get a good one
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Summary: This book should of never been published...
Review: Red Rabbit....well there have been a lot of bad things about this book, so I am going to add more fuel to the fire. Red Rabbit takes place in the early 80's, we dont know because Clancy does not tell us, and by page 20 we know the plot of what the Soviets wanted to do; they wanted to kill the Pope because they feared if he retired the papacy and returned to Poland, then things could get a little hairy for the pro-Communist government there at that time. So comes in Jack Ryan; a younger and more enegertic man, and it takes place after Patriot Games (A great novel). So he comes back to London to work for the British government thanks to Admiral James Greer and Sir Basil Charleston. In Moscow, we then meet Mary and Pat Foley where they are keeping tabs on the Kremlin thanks to CARDINAL. So now as the book DRAGS on, we then meet Rabbit; a data-entry clerk who works deep in the Kremlin who then discovers the plot of the assassination of the pope. So now with this information, Rabbit then slips Pat a note telling him what is going on, it then goes back to Jack Ryan which he has to sneak out Rabbit out of the Soviet Union which went smootly. So now Rabbit tells Jack the plot since we have known this from page 20. So now it is off to Rome where the pope is shot, but not killed. So now as the ending feels rushed, Jack then feels stobbed because he could not stop the failed assassination.
So he heads back to London. There is no suspense, and the book should of been 200 pages instead of the 620 pages. The editing is done HORRIBLY and just reading it left me in disquist and I felt I was robbed of my money when I brought this. Dont buy this novel.
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Summary: Rabbit Roadkill
Review: This is the worst Clancy book I've read to date and I think I've read every piece of his fiction. (That doesn't include the books that have his name on the along with a co-author which are clearly written by the co-author and his name is just window dressing.) Clancy's strengths are in the military strategy, the combat techniques, and action elements of his other books. I'm 1/2 way through the hardcover version (bought on discount from a discount table) and so far the entire book has consisted of people sitting in their office cubicles and homes. If I thought that was action, I'd peer outside my door at our office cubicle farm instead of reading. His attempt to make Jack into a stock market genius by "predicting" in the early 80s that a small Seattle coffee start-up would be a good investment or the constant creation of back stories to match the minor characters' histories from other books just comes off as clumsy and silly. I hope he sticks to what he does well in the future. I do applaud him for the courage to try something different but I hope he can see this was a weak effort.
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Summary: Pleeaaase get an editor with a full red pen!
Review: I have not read a Tom Clancy book since "Patriot Games". I thought this would be a good one to pick up since the chronology comes after that book. Wrong! What a waste of time. Is Clancy so big that he doesn't have an editor to redline his redundancies? There are so many references to Jack Ryan being a marine that I felt like I went to Paris Island. Reading Red Rabbit is like having dinner with a man who had once been somebody and now had to bore you to tears with the same stories you heard from him just 5 minutes before.
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Summary: Not worth the 97 cents
Review: At the time I write this review Red Rabbit is being offered for 97 cents for a used copy. Please believe me - it isn't worth it
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: Generally speaking I am a Clancy fan, but Red Rabbit has me wondering if Clancy has ran out of ideas. This book has been the hardest book for me to finish. If it was not for the fact that it was a Clancy book, I would have stopped reading it before the halfway point of the book. I kept waiting for the story to kick in to full gear, but it never did. This book, by no means is a thriller; it is more like an epic tribute to angst. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because it did save me money on sleeping pills.
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Summary: Clancy's Nostalgia
Review: Red Rabbit seems to be a nostalgic return to Clancy's roots. I suspect he misses the thrill of writing The Hunt for Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin. He certainly refers to the latter enough times although they never touch base. I read the Penguin edition which is over 900 pages and disappointed me from page 200 on. The back cover states that "he quickly finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story to tell...." I am not sure what they mean by 'quickly' but for me it meant sooner than page 800. I kept waiting for Ryan to interview the guy so we could get on with the suspense but it never happened. The first 700 pages dragged on repetitively and finally Ryan meets the Rabbit only to learn what they guessed 400 pages earlier - the KGB wants to assassinate the Pope. Off to Rome we go for a quick wrap-up and some linguini. What was the point of this book? It wasn't suspense - we knew before we started that the Pope's life was in danger and that the Rabbit would convey that information. Hence we knew the Rabbit would escape the USSR. Certainly the conclusion couldn't have been the point because it lacks cohesion and any sense of suspense. Shouldn't we be worried about the Pope being assassinated? It seems that in writing about the past Clancy has become trapped in his alter ego of historian and tells this story as though it were history. History may be decided upon but suspense novels should create the illusion that anything is possible. Even the small details of the subplot fail to find resolution. Clancy spends 20 pages complaining about the British medical system but we never learn the result of Lady Ryan's complaining to the supervisor about the other doctors going out for lunch in the middle of an operation and having a few beers. If you are going to include such vindictive at least make it appear to be part of the plot and tell us what happened. This book made me want to read Cardinal of the Kremlin but I doubt I will bother picking up The Masque of the Red Death which will surely be the title of his next book. I'll stick to Poe. Overall a disappointing return to Clancy's past glory. They say you can never go home. Clancy tried but got waylaid somewhere in Bulgaria.
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Summary: Typical Clan$ey
Review: A 100 page, marginal, novel 'compressed' into over 600 pages, apparently to ju$tify the $8.00 price. Perhaps worth 99cents - or the value of a sleeping pill. Long, long LONG, needless descriptions of ...... nothing. Repetitious. Boring. Slow moving. He wants to convey to the reader (the few suckers there might be of us) that he knows about the ..... one time pad! And it's not a Maxi-pad. This is a 600+ page book that you will get mad about reading about page 200, but since you've invested all of that reading time, you'll keep hoping for somethng to pique your interest. You might get it in the last 50 pages or so. Maybe. I wasted my money. More importantly, I wasted my time.
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