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Summary: Eh...
Review: This book was fairly good up until the ending. For about 600+ pages Clancy builds up a suspenseful plot about bioterrorism while keeping the reader entertained by including several anti-terrorist missions that the Rainbow team goes on. However, the ending is hugely dissapointing as it is a major anti-climax riddled with cop-out coincidences (which are becoming more common with Clancy) and shear stupidity. What could have been a great book was ruined by this.The computer games based on this book are fun however.
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Summary: Tom Clancy is the man!!!!!
Review: This book was awsome. It has lots of action. The only real bad part about it was the that the story ended.
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Summary: Not up to Clancy's old standards
Review: It seems that Tom Clancy's most recent novels don't measure up to his older stories. Unfortunately, Rainbow Six seems to continue that trend. The slow pace, pathetic character development, and silly main plot prevent this book from being on the same level as his earlier novels. Without a doubt, the biggest flaw in the story is the virtually non-existant character development. The best example of this is the Rainbow squad members. I know that it's hard to give individual personalities to twenty or so different characters, but that isn't a good enough excuse to explain their total lack of develoment. They are prety much typical military stereotypes, with next to no background or personal information given about them. At the very least, I would expect Clancy to pay some attention to Ding Chavez, seeing how important he is to the story, but he also doen't have much in the way of personality. John Clark fares slightly better in this department than the other members of the squad, retaining the same personality that Clancy fans have come to love. The best character in the book is Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov, the cunning former Russian KGB agent, who is extremely greedy but still has something of a conscience. On the other side, the major villians of the story, like the Rainbow squad, suffer from lack of development, as they aren't even fully introduced until near the end of the book. For me to understantd their motivations and their ambitions, they needed to have a more deal of screen time. The end result was the shoddily developed villians you saw. The slow pace is another culprit. Most of the book's 897 page lengh is annoying filler material which should have been edited out. The pace picks up during last two hundred pages, but it's too late to sve the rest of the book. There aren't enough action sequence to fill the entire book. Also, the main plot is rather silly. A group of enviromentalists who want to save the world by killing the entire human population? I don't need to explain just how ridiculous that is... But the book isn't a total failure. The action parts were well-written, if a little bit predictable. There were alo some other parts of the book that held my interest, like many of the scenes with Popov. Altogether, the book has some nice action sequences and some interesting scenarios, but the book just wasn't as good as I've come to expect from Tom Clancy...
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Summary: A Solid Clancy Thriller
Review: Rainbow Six was not Tom Clancy's best effort, in my opinion. However, it was thoroughly enjoyable. It has typical Clancy technical detail, suspense and a realistic, "could happen today" scenario. Executive Orders was better, Debt of Honor had a more surprising ending. Solid Clancy -- worth every minute I spent reading it.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: This book was amazing. The story is brilliant. If you like spies, government agencies, espionage, and good action, then READ THIS BOOK! I admit, however, that it does take time. The first half I read in maybe a year...as it was slow at times. I just fell out of my "reading phase". But, when I boarded a plane for Minneapolis, MN last fall, I decided to open it back up. Starting with the "WORLD PARK" incident in the book, I could not put it down. All I did was read on my vacation. The first half took me a year to complete, but the second half took only days.
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Summary: Best Clancy Book
Review: This book is filled with action from the beginning to the end. From my opinion, this is definitely one of Clancy's best work. Even though this is a fairly thick book, the action and suspense kept me going and I finished this book within a week.
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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: This is a great book! It's very interesting, and keeps you reading. I like the way part of it is told from the terrorists' POV. It gives you a good insight into what they were thinking, and their motives. It also reminds people that they are human beings, and that they are actually quite smart, even though Rainbow was smarter. I'd recommend this book to anyone. Cheers, Mr Clancy!
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: I read this book a couple of days ago (after I could get it off my sister) and it only took me about two days to read because I could not put it down. It is probably one of the best books Tom Clancy has ever written. And that's saying something, because Clancy has written a heap of excellent books.
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Summary: Getting weak
Review: Starting with Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy's books seem to have been getting weak. Though the idea of a future war with Japan or a united Iraq-Iran is a bit hard to swallow, the premise of Rainbow Six is virtually implausible: radical environmentalists genetically engineer doomsday virus and engage in terrorist activity! World is saved by elite international CT unit! Well, there may be some nature-loving psychos out there somewhere, but the environmentalists I know seem rather peaceful, not exactly frightening terrorist material--they don't make very menacing bad guys. The book's extreme anti-environmentalist tone is so pervasive that it distracts one from the story--as with Executive Orders (and, I've heard, the Bear and the Dragon), I got the feeling that I was not only reading a military thriller (which Clancy writes well) but also a political thesis paper (which he does not). The Counter-Terrorism element of the book is much more interesting, but it's not up to the quality of his earlier works. Its fun to see the Rainbow guys waste tangos in close-quarters battle, but doesn't quite reach the level of "excitement." We know Clark and Chavez are invincible, and most of the new characters come out unscathed as well. It tends to rob the action scenes of suspense. In fact, I might have given this a 2-star, rather than 3-star, rating if it were not for a scene in which there is a duel between a terrorist and a theme-park guard suited up as a Roman legionary, complete with sword; it's the only battle scene in the book with any sort of tension. Clancy's much-lauded detail and accuracy are starting to slip as well, it seems; there are some minor errors (getting the name of the Rainbow submachine gun wrong, for instance) and one big one (in Australia, July is winter). The biggest problem, of course, is: how does he top this? He's moved from the defection of a lone submarine, cold war espionage, and the war on drugs to nuclear terrorism, major international wars, and now an attempt to destroy humanity itself. What's next? Alien invasion? His plots have been moving farther and farther from reality anyway. Hopefully he'll correct his current slump and start writing real military techno-thrillers again. It's not looking good so far, though.
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Summary: HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!
Review: WOW!!!!!! is the best description of this book. There is so much action on every single page. There is no book with more action than Rainbow Six. It is my favorite book of all time!
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