Tom Clancy

[FLOOB]

Without Remorse is my favorite of Tom Clancy.

[Oldman731]

Why didn't anyone tell me that Without Remorse is probably the most depressing book ever written? 

....why....because you didn't ask, and because it isn't!

Far More Depressing:

365 Days (Glasser)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
A Soldier's Story (the Guy Sajer version, not Omar Bradley's)

There are probably more.  Should be a separate thread.

- oldman

[branch37]

Well I finished Without Remorse.  Very good book, and thanks for the recommendation.  Knowing his back story now, it is very surprising that he didn't go into a PTSD episode and snap during the hospital episode in Rainbow Six.  But then again, he is a very cool customer.   

Now I want to finish the rest of the Clark story.  Which books finish out his story? 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Well I finished Without Remorse.  Very good book, and thanks for the recommendation.  Knowing his back story now, it is very surprising that he didn't go into a PTSD episode and snap during the hospital episode in Rainbow Six.  But then again, he is a very cool customer.   

Whow, whow settle down buddy. You do remember it's a fictional character, right?

[branch37]

Lol yeah. Just got into this book a little more than others 

[bcadoo]

This.

His later stuff gets a little wonky, and I have found his spin-off books titled "Tom Clancy's whatever" written by other authors to be largely garbage.  The sum of all fears and Debt of Honor are ok, and with debt of honor you get to read his somewhat prescient vision of what 9/11 would have looked like if they hit DC first or chose a large political gathering instead of the twin towers as the symbol of the western great satan.

Without remorse was pretty good too.

I had the old PC game red storm rising, and it was super fun.  I wish it would run on current PCs but it talked directly to the video card so I couldn't even find emulators that would run it.  Then I lost the floppies

I've got it running in Windows 7 using dosbox

[Dichotomy]

Well I finished Without Remorse.  Very good book, and thanks for the recommendation.  Knowing his back story now, it is very surprising that he didn't go into a PTSD episode and snap during the hospital episode in Rainbow Six.  But then again, he is a very cool customer.   

Now I want to finish the rest of the Clark story.  Which books finish out his story? 

he's in them off and on until the end of the series. 

[800nate800]

Read All of his End War Series. Some Great Books.

[Mano]

Red storm rising. +1

Read almost all of his books.

Clear and Present Danger was good but,

The Hunt for Red October was my favorite


 

[branch37]

So far I've read Rainbow Six, The Hunt For Red October, and Without Remorse. I think RB6 is my favorite so far. Just ordered Patriot Games, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear andPresent Danger and Red Rabbit.

[xbrit]

I first picked up a copy of Red storm rising during the early 90's and was hooked on Clancy after that.
Another book I really enjoyed by a different author was "Eagle in the sky" by Wilbur Smith, it's got a bit of everything
between the covers.

[Gman]

Wow, Xbrit, I thought I was the few who has read that book, it was my father's favorite, Eagle in the Sky, he read it when I was 1 year old, and gave that copy to me when I was first into Clancy and Red Storm Rising at 13 or so.  It's one of my favorite books, both the content and the sentimental value.  Apparently in its day it was hugely popular, but few folks today have heard of it, at least among those readers I know.

[xbrit]

I did have quite a collection of Wilbur Smith books.