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Offline pugg666

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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2003, 01:52:17 PM »
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That pretty much describes all his books. He actually does the things he writes about in real life and whilst his Dirk Pitt char makes James Bond look like a no tech unlucky savage the stories are great reads. I would highly recommend almost any of his books.


I agree.

It's good escapist reading and his books are based for the most part on historical events.
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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2003, 02:14:14 PM »
Man those Clancy books make me root for the (fictional) terrorists.
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« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2003, 02:45:36 PM »
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Originally posted by medicboy
Tom Clancy's new book.  Just finished it, one of his best, it is the latest one in the Jack Ryan line up and takes place post Iraq War.  Anyone else read it?


I haven't read any Clancy, I'm currently working on some older stuff first: Lovecraft, Dunsany, Tolkien, Austin, Hugo, etc.

Someday I'll get more current, but I find prose of today to be a bit dry in comparison.
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« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2003, 07:26:04 PM »
I'm currently in the midle of it. Don't really care for the fact that everyone is somehow related to Jack Ryan Sr.... but so far so good. Much better than his last two works...

For a great read try: Proud legions : a novel of America's next war, by Antal, John F
a fictional account of the next war on the Korean Peninsula. GREAT read, sufficiently technical and realistic, I highly recommend it!
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« Reply #19 on: August 20, 2003, 08:58:27 PM »
I liked "The Bear and the Dragon", My favorite book is "Arc Light"  It is now out of print and can't remember the author's name.  He wrote 3 books about WW3, 3 different senerios, all staring China, Last one was called "Invasion".

Synopsis on TC's new one?  Basicaly before leaving office Jack sanctions a new privetly funded intelligence service that does not exist on paper.  Not hampered by politics and not having to get congressional oversight and approval of ops, they gather and act  on intel using descrete methods and trained specop people.   Only weird part is 3 of the main people are related to jack (2 nephews, and Jack jr)    The head of the largest Islamic terrorist group joins forces with the Columbian Cartel to smuggle terrorist and weapons into CONUS.
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« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2003, 03:06:40 AM »
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have you read, "War in the Air"?

If you like Coonts, you should try W.E.B. Griffin.  I've read all of his books.   They have very similar styles.


Yep I have "War in the Air". Havent gotten a chance to read Griffon yet, mainly cause they don't have anything from him over here yet.




He kills Robby off? That sucks, he shoulda just retired them after The Bear and the Dragon. As well as chopping out the first half of that book. Red Rabbit was pretty good however.
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« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2003, 04:28:33 AM »
Hunt, Red Storm, Clear and Present Danger, Rainbow Six were all excellent books....I thought Bear was sooooo slooooow, the middle of the book was excruciating.

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« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2003, 10:32:46 AM »
If you thought Bear and the Dragon was slow you will hate Red Rabbit.
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« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2003, 10:37:58 AM »
Red Storm Rising is the best Tom Clancy has ever written (i can live with the small technical errors) imo, rest is good but far from Red Storm.

Gonna have to get his latest for the autum holidays.

Does he have a website?
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