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Summary: An aircraft carrier s't'inks
Review: A poor display of writing
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Summary: Slow dreary view of the possible futur.
Review: This book is the worste thing ever published, it lacks action, drama, comedy, and all of the things that make a good book. I think that it has an excellent plot but the author has written it in a slow, unoriginal way. I don't recommend any to read it as it is a poor display of proffesional expertise.
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Summary: There are much better books to read.
Review: The author makes it seem so easy to discover how one might destroy a nuclear-powered carrier and hunt down the culprits. Unfortunately, for me at least, I found the plot filled with convenient coincidences and deus ex machinas. The subplots, though few, were mostly irrelevant and unnecessarily padded the story. To cite examples would be revealing spoilers. If you want to spend time with this book (or tape, as in my case)--I recommend that you don't. There is much better reading material out there in this genre. Fortunately for me, I borrowed the tape from the library and wasted only my precious time.
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Summary: Entertaining!!
Review: This book was highly entertaining and written so that even us "non-navy" type people could understand and follow along. I loved the people in the story and hope to see them again in future books by Robinson. Also, I think I more clearly understand why it is so important for us to keep up our military budget!! It may be fiction, but the reality sure rang through!!
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Summary: An excellent edge of your seat thriller!
Review: Nimitz Class is an excellent book that I found had some irrelevant components in the beginning, but 50 pages in, it is very good, and hard to put down. It truly is a great book to read during a long vacation that you have a lot of time to read.
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Summary: Knowing details is not enough to become a Tom Clancy
Review: This book was a big disappointment, I'm sorry to say. I really like this kind of books, but I put this one away before I was halfway (and I don't remember the last time I didn't finish a book!). The author obviously knows a lot about the US Navy, but that's not enough to write a book you can't put away even if it's 3 am... Poor dialogues, unrealistic situations, etc. just give an impression of someone trying to be better than he is... Let me just say that if you like this type of books, go for the books of Tom Clancy (at least "Red Storm Rising" and "Hunt for the Red October") and if you've finished those, read Eric Harris' "WW III" and "Shut down". Not Robinson's "Nimitz Class".
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Summary: Top British thriller writing
Review: In spite of the errors regarding the A-6 Intruder(now phased out!) and some stereotypical American 'cowboy' characters(notably in the mid-west scenes) straight out of a National Lampoon spoof, this thriller moves along with impeccable pace. The British and Scottish locations are authentically portrayed, and Robinson has definitely done his research when it came to the Royal Navy's PERISHER sub training course - it proves that submariners have to be highly trained, our equivalent of the US Air Force's Personnel Reliability Program. As for the action at sea, it's every bit as entertaining as Michael DiMercurio, Tom Clancy and James Cobb! The story concerns a mystery sub launching a nuclear torpedo at a US carrier group, and although the Russian blackmarket sale angle to a Middle East nation has been done to death before by the likes of Stephen Coonts(the missiles to Iraq in THE RED HORSEMAN) and Dale Brown(the carrier in SHADOWS OF STEEL), it is still a timely and feasible angle due to political instability and a cash-hungry economy. All in all, well worth a read.
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Summary: This book isabsolutely fantastic and thrilling.
Review: I like this book because it gives a very detailed analysis of the characters and best of all its plot is marvellous. It twists around the navy of the different countries. Most of the time it is action and nothing but action.
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Summary: Mind candy reading
Review: The book is great mind candy reading, perfect for a winter day when you don't have anything else to do. The character interaction especially amongst the U.S. Naval Officers is a little silly. Lieutenant Commanders do not call Admirals by their first name period! Technically there were quite a number of goofs.. too bad the author didn't have an American technical advisor when writing about the U.S. Navy..
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Summary: Great Premise - but doesn't deliver
Review: The concept behind the book was excellent, however, it went nowhere. The first 100 pages were okay. Not great or gripping, but okay. Then the author droned on about who blew up the ship and why and how this one junior navy officer was going to figure out the whole thing. The story just did not hold my interest. I will also concur with another reviewer that the dialogue between the bad guys was hideous. I felt embarrased. Anyway, there are way to many GOOD book out there so I gave up on this one, something I rarely do. The book really needs to be a stinker before I bail. This was. Avoid it. If I could give this 1/2 a star I would
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