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Summary: Avid Reader
Review: Another winner from Tom Clancy. Just what you need for an end of summer read. Noboby writes like Clancy does and he remains the master of the post cold-war intelligence/political intrigue thriller. The combination of real and imagined characters and events coupled with plausible scenarios makes for fascinating reading.Buy it now and be prepared to be engrossed immediately.Enjoy.
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Summary: Look at it as modern "Juvenile Fiction"
Review: Return to the days of Tom Swift, Tom Slade, Rick Brant, the Hardy Boys and Ken Holt. Tom Clancy has started a modern series of Juvenile Fiction where consequences don't have to logically follow unless they are essential to the plot and coincidental occurences are not astonishing.
This is not a "Clancy" novel as we've come to expect but I don't think it was written to be. It's an enjoyable read both for the simplistic activity leading to a quick read and for prompting thoughts on how differently the actions would play out in real life.
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Summary: Cirrusreview
Review: Now that I've read so many reviews panning Clancy's latest I'm starting to wonder if I need to get an IQ test before adding my thoughts. While its not Ludlum (even Ludlum hasn't been Ludlum for a while), its still a fun read and well worth the $17.95 or whatever it costs now. I do like Jack-the-Younger, lets face it, the senior has to be in his 60's and suspension of disbelief only goes so far with action figures (read: Harrison Ford). A litte flag waving about offing terrorists is also a pleasant escape from our present political enviorment. And yes, sometimes the dialogue is pat and even silly but I'll accept Tom's lack of poetry for his technical description the latest covert poison injection systems any time. I mean, we're not reading him to get all teary-eyed anyway, are we guys? (and you three girls out there who are reading this).
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Summary: Bring back the old characters
Review: These new characters are like old Clancy lite. Watered down versions of everyone's favorite characters, Clark, Jack Ryan, the Foleys, Ding... I did not like this book...
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Summary: I'd give it less stars if I could...
Review: To be fair, I thought the idea of a clandestine, vigilante group to be intriguing. (Why not level the playing field? After all, we can't win 'til we're all playing by the same rules.) But after reading Teeth of the Tiger, I've sworn off anything new from Tom Clancy (especially since this is the second stinker in a row). This was barely worthy of a soap opera / sit-com writer. The dialog is mostly unbelievable and annoyingly repetative; the plot is so contrived that F.W. Dixon--who wrote the Hardy Boys--would've reconsidered it. ("Let's see, we need an intel weenie to go help the twins. Has to be somebody young, someone they trust..." Hmmm, who will it be?)
I don't know if it's because of the successful movie versions, but it seems like he's "dumbing down" his books for a wider appeal. How about we just get smarter readers?
This wasn't even palatable as a propaganda piece like the ones produced during the 1940's.
If you've run out of ideas, take a break - you must have enough money by now.
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Summary: A bad fall
Review: This looks like the "OpCenter" novels -- short, dumb, and a far cry from previous Clancy's books. The plot is flimsy, the heroes (all family) do away with all enemies without any problems, and a bad guy is left over (a Bond-esque Blofeld) for further novels... I'm not certain whether I'll read the next novel.
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Summary: Teeth of the Mutt
Review: How disappointing. This book desperately needed an editor to throw it back at Clancy for a rewrite. It was, in many ways, stupid. Loaded with utterly unbelievable events. If the world of international espionage really functions like this, we are all in big trouble. I don't remember any previous Clancy books being this childish. Foolish dialogue, especially between the Caruso twins. I never got to like them because they talked like such idiots from start to finish. And those nicknames were utterly annoying. Jack Jr. is not much better. In fact, there isn't an intelligent person in this whole book, which tells me that it's actually the author who lacks intelligence. One glaring example: The rookie spook, Jack Jr., talks openly in public to the twins about top secret info he's learned on the job, naming names of someone who will be their first "target." I immediately assume that Jack will soon be in big trouble for his "loose lips." Nope. Clancy never deals with it at all, even though the twins tell their superior that Jack filled them in. (Oh, you told them about this super-classified info without authorization? No problem, kid.) What nonsense. And there were many other similar flaws. Like them ID'ing their target in Vienna by happening to remember seeing him in Munich. "We're not certain he's the guy, but we're pretty sure so let's just go ahead and kill him." Just stupid. And get this: The 20-something Caruso boys, when comparing Ferraris to women, refer to Grace Kelly and Maureen O'Hara. Grace Kelly and Maureen O'Hara ?! Is Clancy out of his mind? They were both dead before either of these kids were born. Maybe Clancy himself fantasizes about those gals, but it's ludicrous to think his young characters would ever say such a thing. Obviously his editor: A) is afraid to question anything Clancy writes, or B) never reads any of it, figuring if the name Clancy is on the cover, it will SELL, and that's all that matters.
Someone at the Penguin Group should lose their job for letting this dog get into print. A major let-down.
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Summary: Clancy slippage
Review: I have all of Clancy's books and have been a fan since his first, the genre classic "Hunt for Red October." He hit a peak with "The Bear and the Dragon," and his works since "Bear" have shown a slow decline in quality. "Teeth of the Tiger" is almost a caricature of a Clancy novel. His development of the one-dimensional characters is heavy-handed and even his description of action sequences--long a Clancy strong suit--is lacking the force and eloquence of his previous work.
I'm currently re-reading "Red Storm Rising." The distinction between the quality of that earlier work and "Teeth" is striking. As a Clancy fan, I come not to bury him but to praise him--his earlier work, at least--and hope that he can return to that level of writing in the future.
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Summary: was my copy of the book missing the last 150 pages????
Review: this is probably one of the worst endings to a book that i have seen. i was certain that the last 150 pages of my book were missing. this is like building a house and forgetting to put a roof on it. and this from a guy who packs more action into the last 150-200 pages of a book than anyone. i honestly cant believe that he wrote this book -either that, or this book is simply the preamble, and he is setting us up for an unbelievable sequal where we will see the "teeth" of the tiger.
also, whats with the the 2 names per brother- i was back and forth trying to remember "which one was what one, or what one was who"(dr, seuss). please mr. clancy, read these many, and consistent reviews before you write the next book. thanks.
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Summary: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH CLANCY?
Review: I am so glad I checked this out from the library rather than buy a copy. I won't bother to go into the details of the "plot" or "characters" because other reviewers have given you enough. The last Clancy novel I read was "Cybernation" back in 2002. It was actually written by a ghost-writer, and the plot was a joke. I decided to give Clancy one more try for plane flights from Oregon to Georgia. A mistake. Mr. Clancy, please, please, get your attorney to get you out of your book contract. You are disrespecting your readers and you don't need the money. I liked your first books a lot.
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