Rainbow Six

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Summary: Rainbow six gets my pick
Review: Tom Clancy rainbow six was one of the greatest and most memorable books I have ever read. Hi my name is Master C and for the following I will explain to you why I enjoyed this book. First off there is the main characters consisting of John Clark, Domingo Chavez, Ding, and Alistair Stanley. Firstly I liked this book because they are always either off doing some mission or they are getting ready for a mission or even reflecting on how good they did on their last mission, and personally that's what kind of stuff I would enjoy doing any time of the week. Even when they are not on a mission they are always involved in a action and dangerous situation. They are always getting ready for missions by practicing and practicing, practice makes perfect that's what I always say. I also like it because they always are traveling places like Switzerland and Germany, and Russia and by the sounds of it they are not there for a holiday it is serious mission involved trips. I also liked it because when they are doing their missions they don't just storm in there and try and kill as many people as they can without dying. They have lot of pre mission practice and when they get there they wait in till they now the coast is clear and then they throw bombs (non-explosive off cause) to either blind them or make them delusional so they can not react to the special forces flooding in and securing the area. Finally I liked this book because it was not just all fighting and killing it was also like real life situations that either us or some one we now has been in, so I kind of connected with the book in that way.


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Summary: If only all terrorists were as stupid as these
Review: Clancy fans should enjoy this counter-terrorism novel that's inspired a line of video games. And the doomsday scenario that's the heart of the book is interesting and exciting (until the very end). Some problems:

1) The terrorists are aggressively stupid. I could take down most of Rainbow Six's bad guys with a pop gun and a half-empty packet of Kool-Aid. The supposedly brilliant villains are hired by a former KGB agent. The villians then proceed to a) Lock themselves in a building, b) leave all doors and entrances unbarred, c) walk out of the buildings expecting transportation waiting for them and d) get gunned down. You would have expected the Russian to pull one of his hires aside and say, "We might need to change our thinking -- locking ourselves in the bathroom hasn't sparked the revolution."

2) The characters (save for Popov) are thin, and often serve as mouthpieces for Clancy's views on the media, the environment, military life, and the government. The main villains, in particular, talk at academic-paper length. I thought a Brookings seminar would erupt during a few battles.

3) The ending is lame. Clancy's strength has always been his action sequences, and the battles, even noting the stupidity of the terrorists, are exciting. The doomsday scenario is great, if implausible and dependent on things working perfectly at one location in the entire world (The stock market must have affected EvilCo's travel budget). But Clancy's heroes save the world in 100 pages of the worst payoff in his career. I won't spoil the ending, but it's hard to spoil a climax that doesn't come off.

Still, if you can tune out Clancy's editorializing, and accept the stupidity of the terrorists, Rainbow Six chugs along at a decent pace. It will help you pass time in the airport, at least.

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Summary: What a huge disappointment
Review: I used to like Tom Clancy's books. But it seems to me, and a lot of other people, that the newer stuff is just crap.

Where do I start with this one? The characters were two dimensional, they heroes were more like superheroes that could do nothing wrong. The story if so repetitive it borders on funny. The villian is an oxymoron, he's the president adn CEO of a corporation, yet he's a tree-hugger. And to make it worse, he has an idea for world domination that looks more like something out of a bad James Bond movie. Then to top it off, Clancy obviously didn't do his research when he was writing, because he seems to have forgotten that when it's summer in the US and England, it's winter in Australia.

Overall, the book is lacking and seems to be on the collapse of a once good writing career. If you want to read a book written by someone who knows how to write an anti-terrorism unit book and not as long, go get OMEGA FORCE: THE GHOSTS OF WAR.

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Summary: great book, ending could have been better
Review: This was my first Tom Clancy book, and the first book I have read in awhile. I read this book off and on for quite some time, but when I really got into reading it regularly, I could barely put it down. The descriptions of the characters were very good and made it feel like I really knew them. It was suspenseful and made me sit on the edge of my seat. This was one book where you really root for the good guys and wonder what the heck the bad guys are thinking. The ending seemed too easy compared to some of the missions throughout the book. I was expecting a more exciting ending, especially with the length of the book, and that is the reason for the 4 stars. I do, though, highly recommend reading this book.

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Summary: A Classic Good Guy/Bad Guy Sruggle
Review: This was the first Tom Clancy novel I read and it got me hooked. I had looked at some of the back covers on his other books and thought that they looked kind of boring but this one looked interesting. I have now read all of his books and this is still my favorite. Personally, I get kind of sick of reading about Jack Ryan all the time and I'm glad that Clancy branched off into another topic. I will admit that the ending is an anti-climax but the rest of the book has as much action as any book that I have read.