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Summary: Interesting and exciting take on How it Might Have Been
Review: This book of course is dated, but it is an interesting play-through of the maritime doctrine of that period. Key battles, including aerial, are at sea (or depend on seapower) since the book was derived from the wargame, Harpoon designed by TC's colleague Larry Bond, a techno-thriller author in his own right.The tale is not typical of Clancy, in that he doesn't stay with a single set of characters, but there is a lot of cutting to the different theaters of war... cinemtatic technique typical of a wartime documentary, familiar to us from the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan". All in all, an easily digestible way to revisit the way in which the US Navy imagined the Big One with the Evil Empire would play out...at least this is the way they projected it to the Congressional appropriations committees. For a more prosaic, less dramatic, play-through of the view from 1978, read Sir John Hackett, et. al., The Third World War, August, 1985. The Hackett committee's style mimics the military history textbook for those who prefer that approach. It also reflects NATO's wish list as of 1978 to meet the apparent Soviet Airland threat. This "Imaginary War Novel" has a history going back to the British Colonel of Volunteers, Sir George T. Chesney, whose 1871 _The Battle of Dorking_ projected a German invasion of the British Isles. It is interesting that Tom Clancy stepped out of character to try his hand at the genre before returning to his more character-centered tecnhothrillers.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: This is my all-time favorite book! After four times, I never get bored of this engrossing story. What I love about his books is that he can show how a single incident effects everything. Don't be afraid of his long books, they are wonderful! This is a must read for all!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I Couldn't put this book down. It was nonstop suspense and action. I highly recommend this book to the action thriller enthusiasts or enyone else who enjoys a good read. It had a perfect mix of land, sea and air battles.
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Summary: Not borring, but extremly unrealistic
Review: I do think that if world war III broke out between soviets and americans AND IF nukes weren't used. The US and its allies would be the ultimate winners. But I don't believe in the extraordinary events that take place in Red Storm Rising, there are just too many coincidences. For example, when the air strike against the american carrier group takes place, a small group of F-15s en route to europe just happened to be passing by and killed some of the soviet bombers... come on people, the Atlantic is way to big for this. And I'm just sure Soviet commandos in a covert mission get distracted enough to be ran over by a car every day! Sorry, I just had to get it out of my system. The book is just full of these sort of events. If Clancy had just left them out, the book would be in one word Excellent.
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Summary: Like reading about hi-tech warfare? This is your book!
Review: An excellent novel. Fascinating millitary technology, strategic and tactical warfare at its finest, twisting and turning political plots, and hi-tech espionage. Warfare on land, at sea, in the air, and in the mind, this incredible book has it all.
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Summary: The first techno-thriller I ever read and the best...
Review: ...but, regretably, a disappointment. The real stars in this book, indeed this genre, are the hard, cold mechanisms and bloody, detailed carnage while the characters meander throughout stereotypically automated, from time to time illustrating, almost emphatically, some emotion to convince the reader they are human afterall, androgynous background to explosions and esoteric borax. This is as much an escapist, guilty pleasure for the armchair soldier as Harlequin books are for SOME housewives. What this book does it does well-give a cheap thrill.
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Summary: MAGNETIC IN MY HANDS, CUZ I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN
Review: THIS BOOK WAS EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!!!!! i Strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a book they can read that is simply a hell of a page turner and you reluctnatly put it down because sleep is a good thing...heheheh GREAT JOB TOMMY BOY!!!
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Summary: O.K.
Review: I like it because it's not like other Tom Clancy's books which are conected (Op Centre, books with Jack Ryan...). It's clear that Clancy is navy man, as ground battles are not described as detailed as naval (air battles are a bit more detailed, but not much). Don't you think, that with US involved in Europe some other state would try achieve it's goals (remember how worried US were when involved in Kosovo)? Maybe Koreans would do something. But all in all, it's good book.
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Summary: Wonderful depiction of modern world war III
Review: The page turning suspence pulls me into the book and the descriptive work is some of the best i've seen. Reading it again and again is not uncommon for me. exellent book
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Summary: The Most Entertaining Clancy Novel
Review: After reading in 6th grade The Hunt For Red October in 3 days, I grabbed a paperback copy of Red Storm Rising and began to tear through it. I finished it in 2 1/2 weeks. The book was packed with brilliant descriptions of the weapons and battles of World War III, and was hard to put down. A must read for Clancy fans.
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