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Summary: Rainbow Six is A book a movie could do no justice too.
Review: Rainbow Six starts fast and keeps moving until the end. My first full tom clancy read. when a book starts the way it did it's bound for greatness. the first book in my new clancy collection. so great is the book rumors circulated that The U.N. was going to start a similar group.
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Summary: Is it me?
Review: or Executive Orders and Rainbow Six are almost the same? I mean, if you substitute Jack Ryan with John Kelly, add or substract a plot or two, it boils down to almost the same thing. Or it's me? I gave this book three stars - one for the effort, one for the lenght and one for the weight, as TC seems to be producing door-stoppers. Maybe he's paid by weight? Word count? He ain't getting paid for the plot, that's for sure.I think TC should take a deep breath and think long and hard whether he wants to write another monster (Executive Orders, Rainbow Six, The Bear and the Dragon). I love books, I love to read, I can read almost anything and I don't mind reading good books twice, but boy, I'm really not sure I want to add another TC to my book collection.
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Summary: A correction
Review: This is for the previous review entitled by 'A Reader.' I think they have some bad information here. It DOES get cold in Australia. Did you know they have penguins in Australia? It also snows there too? Australia has a diverse climate, depending on where you go. Much like America.
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Summary: Would have been good at 500 pages.
Review: I had only read one other book by Clancy (SSN), when I decided to pick this one up. I expected something action-packed, but what action there was, was dull and repetitive. It's the same "aamericans are better than everyone else in the world" plot, and it seemed that the terrorists never really stood a chance during any of their missions. This book also should be clipped down to about 500 pages, and it probably would be much more effective.
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Summary: Suprisingly bad
Review: Formulaic garbage. Major errors in the plot (i.e. Gives one character the knick name Bear and names another Oso (Spanish for bear) who is sometimes called Bear, it's cold in Australia in the summer...DUH). Clancy, who used to be cutting edge, should have retired about three books ago. What an embarrasment.
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Summary: Good Story
Review: This book is good because it is something that could happen. John Clark and Ding Chavez return in this story about a multi-national counterterrorist team. Clark, whom you remember from Without Remorse and every Ryan book from The Cardinal of the Kremlin on, is the leader of the team, which is headquartered in Hereford Air Force Base in England. This book is simply excellent. The action sequences where team rainbow takes down the terrorists are great, and the story is good, and makes you wonder what will happen next. The mail problems are the lack of character development and the Australia Olympics scheme. It is cold there in our summer, that is why we had to wait several months, for it to warm up there. Nevertheless, an engrossing story.
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Summary: As Good As Jack Ryan
Review: After the very good series of books about Jack Ryan, I didn't think Tom Clancy had it in him to produce something different on the same level. He just proved me wrong. This one is GOOD. It has all the right elements of suspense. There are few enough casualties, so that it looks (barely) believable, but doesn't depress. The good guys win, of course. International terrorism (and this time the arch-villain is, believe it or not, an American !) is defeated once again. The world is saved by the efforts of a few good people, with Clancy, Clark and Chavez orchestrating it all.
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Summary: Not a chance...
Review: I thought I'd give Clancy a try - after all, so many people read his books on the train that I am taking to work. What a disappointment! The writing is poor, the characters are 2 dimensional. I suppose "Rainbow 6" could be a comic book.
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Summary: Forecast: Mildly windy with occasional gusts
Review: Ever since I was little, I've had to be completely swept away by a book. If it didn't manage to grab my attention within the first few chapters, I am sad to admit, that I couldn't force myself to finish the book. This was part of the reason I loved books that had multiple sub-plots. In Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy does an excellent job of keeping my attention while developing the characters with each mission. The problem comes when Clancy tries to tie everything together. Although the sub-plots are marvelous, this novel lacks substance and believability when it comes to the major plot. Through the minor plots, Clancy displays his knack for story telling and development. As with his previous novels, Clancy writes in a way in which the reader feels like they actually know the characters and can sense their emotions. By the end of the book, these fictional characters are like close friends or confidants. This leads me to my first problem with this book. Just when readers know the good guys, they are ambushed and several of them die. This is fine in the development of the plot, but Clancy fails to expand upon any emotion relating to this incident. He spent most of the book letting the readers get to know them and then once they have a bullet shatter their skull, it is time to move on. No grief. No emotions. While military personnel may be able to accept the fact that they are gone and move on quickly without a second thought, most readers, myself included, would like to see at least some reaction. By failing to acknowledge that the characters were people, Clancy leaves the readers with the impression that everyone in his book is expendable and their death would be and is completely inconsequential. The sub-plots are the highlight of this book. As Clancy's successful attempt at keeping readers on the edge of their seat, they are well thought out and action packed. While the main plot is highly predictable, anything can and will happen in the minor missions and plots. The transitions are made very smoothly from one to the next and aid in at least a little believability of the major plot. They help ease us into wondering if it is possible for some psycho tree-hugger to destroy the human race and the world as we know it. If nothing else, the book is thought provoking enough to be entertaining. Although engaging, the one primary flaw, or rather let down, in this book is the conclusion. Clancy spends the entire book building and building, but to what? The climax had no climax. I was able to predict (correctly) everything that happened in the last 200 pages. Even the bad guys, who were intelligent enough to create a virus that would slowly and painfully kill every human, were not smart enough to carry out a simple plan. Also, while the ending in South America was amusing, the true climax should have been in Sydney. It was as if Clancy planned on ending the story in Sydney, but that didn't quite tie up all the loose ends, so he dragged the book on further. With a story over 700 pages, quantity does not necessarily equal quality. Clancy could probably have written his conclusion more effectively in fifty pages. That is how simple the ending is. The conclusion almost destroys the positive aspects this book has to offer. The anticlimactic conclusion was the final straw to make this book merely mediocre. While many points in this book are engaging and enthralling, there are several passages that could have been written by a 10-year old. All the child would need is a vivid imagination and a desire to draw out a plot. This is a shame. Clancy is a good writer who seems to have been caught by a deadline. The majority of the book is expertly written. If the conclusion had been more entertaining, other minor flaws could easily be over looked. But, even with the pathetic ending, my prediction for this book is generally enjoyable with some exceptionally entertaining parts.
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Summary: Wonder what happened to Clancy
Review: It seems Clancy is getting into his slump period, unless this book is written by his ghost writters. Clancy has written theose wonderful stories in his earlier books like "red storm rising", "cardinal of ...." and etc... This "Rainbow 6" makes Clancy fan ,like myself, wonder if this is the time to wander away from his new writings. This book is like a Elton John's "Blue Moves" album. Ater those series of shining brilliant works, this book was giving signals that the talent of the writter is finally start showing the sign of waning. My hunger and thirst to Clancuy's new books is drying up as well. Unlike before, unfortunatly, the time has come that grabing his new books without consideration could be a total dissapointment. I hope this is just a temporaly set back, and expect his come back with books with edges.
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