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Summary: If Newt gives It 5 stars...?
Review: Newt-ster. Come on!! This was not Clancy's best work. It's a pale reflection of the man's work. Cardinal of The Kremlin was 5 stars. Patriot Games was 5 stars. But this? Is dredging up the Cold War with a boring scenario the best he can do when the world of spying and intrigue has so much fodder to offer today?
To think they might make a movie of this. Groan. This one even Clancy's rabid fans have to shudder with.
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Summary: major disappointment
Review: As a huge Clancy fan, this is by far the worst. No suspense, forced dialogues and a feeling that Clancy needed to somehow fill 700 pages. Look at the large letters as a means to make it look "big".
If Clancy does not come back on track with his next book, he will loose lots of - still - loyal readers.
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Summary: Red Rabbit - latest Jack Ryan adventure.
Review: This book is out of sequence with the others, going back to the time just after the scenario of Patriot Games. Jack Ryan, after having burned down PIRA terrorists in the earlier book, is gun-shy in the field, totally out of character at this point in his "life". It is almost as if Clancy had left most of the work to a ghost-writer, collaborator, or editor, as in his series of Power Center books. The plots are good, as are the characters in snapshot. Unfortunately, few of them are recognizably developed, including Jack Ryan.
Overall, an interesting read with a good twist to the plot. I just wish Clancy had written it.
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Summary: The Young Jack Ryan
Review: Tom Clancy takes us back to the early days of Jack Ryans life. He is married and has a daughter and apparantly has saved the life of a member of the royal family of England but has not yet begun his political career. This book is based on the attempted assassination of the Pope but Clancy presents the reasoning and thinking of the perpetrators and the interceders. It very well could have happened as Clancy writes. Of course, as he lived to become the President, Ryan perseveres but how he does it makes interesting and true Clancy reading!
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Summary: Rather Tepid, Predictable and Unexciting
Review: This book was quite a dissapointment. Not that it is bad, but it was not up to Tom Clancy's usual standards.
There was no primary character or sense of danger, no real twists or turns, no excitement. Just a Ho-Hum narrative.
The book concerns Jack Ryan just after "Patriot Games" but before "Red October".
I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. It never did.
The book is worth reading, but check it out from the library.
If this is your first Tom Clancy book, you will feel cheated, and wonder what all the excitement is about.
Any of the following would be a better choice for a first timer: "Patriot Games", "The Hunt for Red October", or "The Sum of All Fears".
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Summary: Not the best but still worth it
Review: This is by far not Tom Clancys best book. It followed an extremely linear storyline without much interest to continue reading the book. Many of the charcter descriptions were extremely repetive especailly the fact that Ryan used to be a Marine, which Clancy feels that is necessary to repeat every chapter.But this is a book that you must read. The ending leaves itself open for a sequel that Clancy is undoubtbly already working on. I just hope that he fixes some of the many problems that plagued Red Rabbit.
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Summary: Zero stars for the rabbit
Review: Someone saw I was reading this and asked me how it was. I replied, "America GOOD! Russia BAD! Capitalism GOOD! Communism BAD!" I am a member of the 'read 'em all since Red October' club and I, too, am wishing I had read some reviews first. Stunningly bad dialogue. Heavy-handed jingoism. Blustering machismo, we've got it all. The Starbucks reference was when I almost stopped but I hung in there. Why I don't know. Really feels like Clancy phoned this one in.
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Summary: Run Rabbit Run!!
Review: RED RABBIT is a dreadful prequel to the other Jack Ryan books. If Clancy had written this before RED OCTOBER maybe it would be forgivable, but this is 16 years on; and the second lousy novel in a row from him. The plot concerns a young Jack Ryan attempting to foil an assassination attempt on the Pope, or that's what RED RABBIT is supposed to be about. What the reader gets is page after page of hot air and rambling and pretentious drivel. We all know that without the extensive research Clancy is just a lousy writer,with RED RABBIT not even the research can save him. At only 650 odd pages it's a lot shorter than some of his books, but it could have been edited down to about 300 pages. Don't expect to see this one filmed any time soon. It's still slighter better than BEAR AND THE DRAGON, but surely Clancy couldn't get any worse than that. Tom, maybe you should consider going back to selling insurance and leave the techo thrillers to the new blood like Matthew Reilly. Now HE is really good. Check out Reilly's ICE STATION or AREA 7 instead of this abomination.
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Summary: Clancy Creates New Levels of Boredom
Review: I've read college textbooks that were more entertaining than this book. It's amazing to me that the author of Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Rainbow Six, and other excellent novels also wrote this book. Most of the book seemed to be setup of Jack Ryan's life and the history of other characters that appeared in the other novels. Reading over six hundred pages to get twenty pages of actual excitement and adventure made this book a huge disappointment. Based on this novel, he is no longer a 'Master of Suspense' and should stick to writing his histories of the military services. For those of you that must read all Clancy novels, I suggest you wait till your local library has it or to buy it off the paperback table at your local used bookstore. I'd have given it zero stars if that were an option.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've got all of Clancy's adventure books, and I've enjoyed them all up to now. This book was, utterly predictable, slow, and boring. At no point was there any suspense. Now that I think about it, this may be the closest any of his spy vs. spy novels has ever approached reality. I prefer his escapism.
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