Rainbow Six

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Summary: Tom Clancy's best book
Review: Of the Clancy books I've read, I thought this one was best. The action is superb, the plot is involving, and there is good character development - especially when one considers the sheer quantity of characters that are followed in this book.

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Summary: Rainbow Six-He's Done Better
Review: When i saw tom clancy's newest book, Rainbow six. I was excited. I'd just started reading his books and was looking forward to reading one with everyone else. Ok, now the book. The book was a standard clancy novel with the big letdown in the middle just to make the book longer. I has no mention of Jack Ryan at all whatsoever. The plot was decent when you didn't know what it was but it gets really really bad. The mission parts were fairly decent but confusing at times(like in most of his books you need to re-read stuff). The ending was ok but clancy doesn't seem to be willing to let some of his characters go. Even Price,Loiselle and Weber were untouchable. He doesn't talk about the past of anyone at all. The only really significant character he introduces is Dimitry Popov, who you should pay attention to from page 1. Unfortunately though the book is much too long to make a whole heap of sense afterwards. It doesn't leave any loose ends and if your really don't want to read it but still want to be able to follow the Jack Ryan Storyline then you can safely skip Rainbow Six.

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Summary: So, You Want to be a Commando?
Review: Having read all of the Jack Ryan novels, as well as No Remorse, I think this book is a marvelous addition to the series. In fact, along with Executive Orders, this book I bought when it came out in hard cover, and feel it was worth the wait and the price of admission. With that said, I should go into why I liked the book so much.

When I was in the army, my S-4 1lt., a real go-getter, always had a Tom Clancy book under his arm. At the time, 1990, I had no idea why someone would read a Tom Clancy book while they were living the "real thing," so to speak. However, after being discharged, I am able to read on of Mr. Clancy's books and suppress the occasional longings I have for the military life I departed. I read and re-read the books often, and I get the same feeling of fun, excitement, and suspense each and every time I do. Not too many books of this nature can make this claim with me.

I also admire Mr. Clancy's research and detail. I am no techno-weenie, but being a historian who has researched counter terrorism, I enjoy what he is able to provide to the reader in understandable language. Specifically, highly plausible and factual information within a grand plot.

So why four stars instead of five? Well, to be honest, this plot borrows too much upon continuing a theme brought forth in the book, Sum Of All Fears. Namely the means by which the terrorists use to attack the United States. Also, with Clancy, I see a reluctance to allow bad things to happen to major characters within this last book. Yes, the terrorism hits close to home, but that is all, just close. I understand an attachment to characters, but these people are the luckiest people in the world to have all of this danger strike so close yet never hit a major character.

In the end, I am hooked, for good reason I might add. To this end, Rainbow Six is a wonderful book, even if you have never read any of the other Jack Ryan Books.

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Summary: Damn good action scenes
Review: This is my second Clancy book I have read, and yet again I find myself wanting to read more of him. Being the teenager that I am, this book taught me a lot of useless information, which is always good to know. I have not yet fininshed the book ( I am on 720 give or take) but I find this book very interesting and entertaining. These 50 page action scenes keep you hooked on the book, and the plot all finally started to fit together around page 500. I want to read more clancy because of this book, but I cannot for I must get to that stupid summer reading list...The Count of Monte Cristo...ehhhhh

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Summary: great story and action
Review: This is the first Clancy book I've read and I really enjoyed it. The action was non-stop and the story was very engaging. I especially liked the way Clancy details the battle scenes. Even though the vividness may seem gruesome it makes the action seem real. One beef though is that Clancy backs off on detailing the battle episodes as the book moves on. It almost seems like Clancy felt the book was getting to long so he cut down on the description. All in all this being my first Clancy book, I will probably eventually read the rest of them. If you like stories about covert government or paramilitary action this book is an excellent read.

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Summary: Clancy = Marcinko - Readers Digest
Review: I'm the kind of guy that'll gladly read any spec ops novel. When I saw R6 at the bookstore, I salivated at the thought of a long, fat, juicy, Clancy spec ops extravaganza.

This novel has great potential, but the writing is a little underwhelming, as if Readers Digest had whitewashed it.

Clancy's main problem is that he makes his lead characters too proper, too polite, too middle-class. As in, "let's shoot up some tangos (with regrets of course), then let's get back to cornflakes, barbeques, and apple pie."

This Americana formula has served Clancy's bank account well, but it robs his novels of sass and of psychological complexity. Compare R6 to any of Richard Marcinko's or Ralph Peters' novels, respectively, and you'll see what I mean.

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Summary: Great book
Review: This book was full of suspence and over all a great book.

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Summary: I guess Barney helped write this story, because it's stupid.
Review: I'd read one Tom Clancy novel before this one: NetForce. I found NetForce to be quite interesting but I never quite got it. What is Clancy's point? What is he trying to show? Though NetForce held my interest (ever so barely), this one was just plain old trash. Maybe I'd read it again if it was either this or Barney Goes To Town or some other 4 year-oldish book. And the two books aren't far apart. Both have childish and disorganized plots (keep in mind I've never read Barney Goes To Town, I'm just trying to prove a point), both have stupid characters that seem to be able to do more than any normal human (or dinosaur) could. And both authors must have been drunk or unaware that they were making such a horrible book.

This is usually the section where I tell the plot, but the plot's so dumb (as well as the characters) that I think this book doesn't even deserve a section for it (the plot). Basically there's a bunch of super human guys who work in some SWAT-like team, shooting everything in sight, whether it be acutal threat to civilians, or a dog on the side of the road (I'm kidding, but seriously they attack people who really don't need to be attacked).

Once again, I find my self after reading a Clancy novel, What are you trying to say, Tom? Is there any point to your ridiculous stories? Or do you want to make a complete fool of yourself in front of millions of readers? Please answer A.S.A.P.

Don't read this book, that's the bottom line.

A. A.

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Summary: The Book is Better than the PC Game
Review: I originally played the Rainbow Six computer and N64 game, so I thought the novel would be a great read. I wasn't disappointed and Clancy delivered a knock out novel. It starts off like all of the Clancy novels I have read, with a plane hijacking of ex-CIA agent John Clark and his new son-in law and his partner Domingo Chavez. Clark is the leader of a new black counter-terrorism outfit code named RAINBOW. Chavez leads one of the two teams located at the SAS base in Hereford, England. Clancy weaves a great plot involving a huge bio-technology company, a security agency handling the 2000 Olympic Games and an ex- KGB agent. The world gives RAINBOW lots of work and they rise to the task. This is one of the best novels I have ever read, great action, it keeps its readers on their toes and unable to put this awesome novel down.

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Summary: 'Rainbow Six:' Another Action-packed Tale From Clancy
Review: In 'Rainbow Six' master spy John Clark is the head of an international anti-terrorist task force with his sidekick and son-in-law Chavez at his side. 'Rainbow' starts with a bang and doesn't let go. From thwarting an attempted hijacking to stopping the kidnapping of a Swiss banker to Battling baddies at a Spanish amusement park, 'Rainbow' is unique in Clancy's novels as it is almost non-stop action. This is both a plus and a minus. While the pace is fast and the story riveting, some of the humor and political intrigue that marked his previous novels are missing. Also, President Jack Ryan wasn't even given a walk-on appearence. Even mention of him was restricted to only 'The President.' Reguardless, 'Rainbow Six' is must reading for all Tom Clancy fans.