Author Topic: Worst Book Ever (Read 1037 times)

FUNKED1 · « **on:** February 04, 2004, 12:59:22 PM »

Mission Compromised by Oliver North
It makes Tom Clancy look like a genius.
This thing jumps the shark so many times I have lost count.
And the errors in military details are astounding.
If you are stuck on a desert island, and this is the only book you have to read, use it for kindling. It is ass.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:02:57 PM »

LOL is it recent?

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:04:39 PM »

2002 I think.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:09:47 PM »

Ahh ok. He writes fiction?

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:20:53 PM »

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:39:10 PM »

I bet "Wingman" by Mack moloney or something like that is worse!

texace · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2004, 03:52:06 PM »

I thought you were talking about something I'd written and I began wondering how you'd gotten a hold of it.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:00:54 PM »

You sent it to me once.

But no Wingman was a real published book...

Read it in 5th grade, and even I then new more about planes then the author.

I am sitting there, at ten, reading about how the star of the book mounted sidewinder missles on a U2 thinking, man you just can not do that!

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:12:17 PM »

You haven't read a crappy military action novel until you've read about the "Mi-27" Hind in action or enjoyed stirring scenes of "F-18s" shooting down SAMs with Sidewinders, or the climactic attack with a Global Hawk (which navigates by GPS but somehow needs a laser designator to find a fixed target) making a kamikaze run on a palace containing Saddam, Bin Laden, Aidid, and stolen Russian tactical nukes. Or the daring rescue of downed aircrew by a renegade Iraqi who takes orders directly from God (Christian of course) while the wife of the primary protagonist (who of course arranges a secret meeting with... Oliver North... when he has doubts about his mission) undergoes a lengthy and unreadable "born again" conversion process back in the states. I'm not even going to get into all of the subliminal neo-con political propaganda, with obese liberal national security advisor, DNC president insisting on minority aircrew, evil UN generals (Russian of course) betraying US troops, etc etc.
It's such a **** of a book that it actually becomes entertaining at a certain point. I've seen Taiwanese nationalist propaganda films that were more subtle. I'm keeping it in the bathroom for laughs, as something to encourage me to finish my business quickly, and as emergency backup hugahunk.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:19:01 PM »

Your Joking????

Thats sounds BAD!!!

Wingman sounds better and thats saying something!!

I may have to read it just to see how bad!

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:21:05 PM »

I'm sorry, but "The Lost World" by Michael Chrichton (sequal to Jurassic Park) is the worst book ever.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:23:44 PM »

I read that on an airplane ride, it's nothing compared to Mission Compromised.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:30:31 PM »

It is nothing compared to Wingman either.

LOL

I read some book called Warthogs, fiction about A10s in the gulf and it was pretty bad too.. Far worse then the lost world but no Wingman.

I really may have to pick me up a copy of Funkies book, it sound like it would fun just for the comedy value?

Charon · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:38:34 PM »

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You haven't read a crappy military action novel until you've read about the "Mi-27" Hind in action or enjoyed stirring scenes of "F-18s" shooting down SAMs with Sidewinders, or the climactic attack with a Global Hawk (which navigates by GPS but somehow needs a laser designator to find a fixed target) making a kamikaze run on a palace containing Saddam, Bin Laden, Aidid, and stolen Russian tactical nukes. Or the daring rescue of downed aircrew by a renegade Iraqi who takes orders directly from God (Christian of course) while the wife of the primary protagonist (who of course arranges a secret meeting with... Oliver North... when he has doubts about his mission) undergoes a lengthy and unreadable "born again" conversion process back in the states. I'm not even going to get into all of the subliminal neo-con political propaganda, with obese liberal national security advisor, DNC president insisting on minority aircrew, evil UN generals (Russian of course) betraying US troops, etc etc.
It's such a **** of a book that it actually becomes entertaining at a certain point. I've seen Taiwanese nationalist propaganda films that were more subtle. I'm keeping it in the bathroom for laughs, as something to encourage me to finish my business quickly, and as emergency backup hugahunk.

I can't believe he left out the French, what's up with that?

Charon

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:50:50 PM »

I didn't finish it, there could be some evil frenchies towards the end.