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I stopped reading Goodkind's Sword of Truth series after book 5 because I was sick of the same thing, and everyone tells me it just gets worse from there.“Tom & Jerry” is a live-action/animated hybrid that takes place in a world in which all animals are animated but all humans are real. To be fair, Clancy isn't the only one to get all preachy and moralizing.
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I've actually just been re-reading RSR this week. That said, I did enjoy Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, even if the characters are pretty one-dimensional. Of course, if we lost all the time then I suppose nobody would buy his books. For more of this sort of inanity, see Bear and the Dragon. But 10:1? 20:1? I don't think we're going to prevail against odds like that. I'm sure our tanks and training are good enough that in an open battle, given even odds or even 2:1 against us, we'd have a chance. Take the tank battles in the middle east in that book, for example. That, and it was getting totally unrealistic. I've read everything up to Bear and the Dragon and I would have to say it started downhill after Executive Orders - that's where he started (IMHO) getting too preachy and moralizing on political issues. Yeah, go join Michael Crichton in that special place in Hell for authors that write books just so it can be converted into a movie.įor me, he started sucking when I realized his books were mindless "rah-rah, yay America, we're invincible!" dreck.
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Oh, and he officially reached hack status when Sum of All Fears the movie came out a couple years ago, and he decided to start writing books with a younger Jack Ryan (or maybe his son?) JUST so there would be more movie fodder. It was especially bad when he tries to paint the flat tax as so completely superior to anything else, that opponents just sort of roll over in the face of his "it's just better" explanation. It was basically "Tom Clancy explains his political views". And again, without the Soviet Union, he had to stoop to "uh, okay, Japan, China, and India gang up on us."Įxecutive Orders was the last one I read. I especially liked how he kept using the term "zaibatsu", even though those organizations were dissolved at the end of WWII. I found Debt of Honor to be somewhat entertaining, except that he showed that he had no clue as to Japanese culture. Without the Soviet Union as the boogie man, he had to start making up tag-team combos. The Soviet Union collapsing dealt a real death blow to the spy novels. Fun to read and a real page turner, I think this novel is probably my second favorite of his, behind Red October. Most of the characters are simply stereotypes you'd see in a typical military blockbuster movie.īut other than that, a good believable yarn. Reading this novel now, 15 years after I first read it, I note a stunning lack of character depth and development. I only ask because I just picked up a mint condition, first edition hard cover of Red Storm Rising from the local Goodwill store for $0.99. I guess the book about Jack Ryan as a young man working on the pope's assassination attempt story was okay. Eco-terrorists developing a bio weapon to kill off the world? Inject politics into your books much Mr. War between China and Russia? You sure weren't accurate on that one Tom, those guys are allies against the US now. Perhaps Without Remorse? Executive Orders was good too, but unbelievable.Įverything after that is basically crap. I've read all his books, and I honestly can't remember the last one in the series that was really good.