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Summary: The sweetest book I have ever read
Review: This book is down right excellent. If you like military battles this book is for you. There is a new battle every page.
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Summary: His defining moment
Review: Hunt for Red October made him famous, but Red Storm Rising made Tom Clancy great. The novel is a fascinating scenario that revolves around a 1980s Soviet oil crisis that leads to World War Three. Like his first book there is a large amount of submarine scenes, but RSR goes on to include a detailed air war and ground battles. though some of the plot lines no longer ring true (the F-19), it is still easy to enjoy. The sudden end was odd and it took me a page to figure out what was going on in Moscow, but was satisfactory. I've read many Clancy novels since this book, but it still remains my favorite.
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Summary: A terrible story that uses mediocrity as it's paradigm
Review: This story lacks passion, character development, and most of all, an interesting plotlines. Their is no crucial conflict, no culmination, no threat that either side may win or lose. The story lacked intensity, and made of for it with it's exceptional reality. However, reality may work for some fiction, it did not for this one. Overall, I think this story used mediocrity as it's paradigm
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Summary: His BEST!!
Review: This was the first Clancy book I read, and as far as I am concerned, he is yet to beat it! I'm in the middle of "Executive Orders" and it may, in the end, dethrone RSR, but most likely just meet it.I can only hope that Tom Clancy returns to this sort of hi-tech war novel for us to enjoy.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read, and I've read many!
Review: I first read this book back in 1990, as I had to describe it in french class. I was hooked on Clancy from then on. Since then I've read practically all of his other books, as well as others on the military theme, but when all is said and done, none contain as much realism, clarity, sense and technicality as RSR. Of course Clancy has his faults, his later books, although being excellent, do appear quite "soap-operaish", each character is "the best in his field" and "all-American" to such an extent that he seems unaware to the fact that other strong military forces exist. eg UK, France etc. Yet RSR does show that it's not only the USA and Soviet Union that would fight WW3. The many small stories that take place around the world makes the book easier to read; they all culminate together in the end to create an overall story which tends to end rather confusingly. There is no big moment of victory, but more a confusion as to when the war ended. The Gulf war was similar, if you remember, there's so much destruction and devastation that nobody is really jubilant, but when the harsh reality of war's aftermath sets in, there's more of a relief that it's over. This book is like that. I loved the way each chapter, and section within began with the date and location, meaning that there wasn't any confusion as to what was happening. Of course today you have to read the book as though it is (and was) set in the late eighties. We know today that the Cold War is over, we didn't then. The F-19 wasn't brought into service, but rather the F-117. Warfare techniques today have even come along in leaps and bounds, so that if RSR was written today, there would be noticeable differences. It belongs in the eighties, but that's not a bad thing. Most of us can still relate to the feeling back then about the West and East. RSR summed this up perfectly. After all this time, I must have read RSR at least seven times, and each time I see something I missed before. It's not as ! if we didn't know the ending, it's more about how we get there, this is why it can be read over and over.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: RSR clearly excels, even without the beloved Jack Ryan. Wonderfully accurate battle scenarios, and the romance on Iceland, although perhaps not up to the standards of Danielle Steele, provides a touch of humanity to the hardcore military and political themes. I would recommend this book to most people, but military nuts (like myself) would enjoy it most.
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Summary: A great Clancy novel. Sure Beats Debt of Honor!
Review: I found this book having the affect of a magnet on iron to my eyes. I simply could not put the book down. From page one to 724. This book defines the Technothriller genre. I gave it a 9 because I feel nothing is perfect and because it was easy to get lost in some spots with so many characters to keep track of. All in All, a great read for Clancy fans and newbies to him and/or the genre!
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Summary: Read this book!
Review: Never before has a book with the subject of something as terrible as war been so fun to read about. I got the chills when I read this book. It was so real and near and yet it seemd so far away. Tom Clancy is a excellent writter and this was the first book I have read by him. It was amazing, I must have gotten through it in a week. You have to be fairly in to the military part before you read it though. The Russian are short on oil and plan to attack NATO and the Middle East to get some back. A dramatic and sometimes funny book. Two thumbs up.
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Summary: Exciting Techno-Thriller
Review: For a "techno-thriller", this is as good as it gets. But for a Tom Clancy novel, it lacks his usual plot twists and interesting characters. This book is really limited to those readers who are fascinated by descriptions of future large scale conflicts.
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Summary: Packed with suspense to the fullest!!!
Review: A 10 if you like stories about war. A real page turner. As the story unfolds it stays at a pretty high suspense level, so it might be a little taxing on one's nerves to read it. Some statements about Germany are false for the 1980-s, they are more from the 70-s or even earlier, but that argument is more for nitpickers than anyone else. What struck me odd was the complete absence of any references towards insubordination and desertion of forces on both sides. OK, you can't desert on a ship, but on the ground it's another matter.
The 'White Knight' part was a little out of place, though it counterweighted the hardware stuff nicely.
Just replace any references to the F-19 with the F-117. I remember the plastic models of the F-19 sold at hobby stores 'till the early 90-s, and the F-117 to appear only shortly after Desert Shield. All in all it's a pretty good book, though by far not high literature. It's pretty long, too.
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