Red Storm Rising

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Summary: The best one yet after The Hunt for Red October
Review: this is one of Clancy's best books. The senerio is possible and the plot is brilliant. The American , Russian and British forces and weapons are spectacular.

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Summary: A real page turnner!
Review: This was the first Clancy book I'v read,and I could NOT put this book down!I must have stayed up till' 3:30AM every night untill I finished it. Excelant reading!

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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
Review: This was the best book I ever read. It explained everything I ever needed to know about war and military tactics. This is a must-read-book!

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Summary: What a great book.
Review: Never have I read such a perfectly realistic, exciting book about war. Clancy's military knowledge is incredible - and his writing is so good that it leaves little to the imagination. Reading the book is like watching a eight-hour long action movie. I can't believe no one ever made a movie out of this - I guess the budget would have been too high before the age of computer graphics and the like. The only possible way I can think of making it better would be to make the war more widespread instead of being pretty much confined to Europe and the Atlantic. The first Soviet attack on the U.S. Navy is perhaps the best ten pages of any book that I have ever read. Anyone who likes books about war of any kind, this will become your Bible once you read it. What a great book.

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Summary: A Excellent Book!
Review: Red Storm Rising is a must buy! A very thrilling, frighteningly believable, and an all around great book! The WWlll scenario it incorporates is very beleivable. It is a awsome book for the price. Tom Clancy's best!

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Summary: Very good, but too long.
Review: When I saw this book,and bought it, i thought that it would be an achievement, if I read it all. And I did. One of the best books Iread, it took me 1 and a half weeks, to finish it.(That is not short time, but I had homework, to do too.) I recommend this book, for Clancy readers, and people that are interested in war scenarios.

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Summary: My first Clancy book, it was great.
Review: Clancy did a great job explaining what was happening at each moment. I enjoyed the way he used characters which were connected through the past. The attention to detail he incorporated made it possible to picture the activities occuring. The possibility of WW-III as being a conflict over oil and subsequently power is a realistic scenario. I recommend this book to anyone intersted in nonstop action at the turn of a page.

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Summary: BEST WAR EPIC EVER
Review: Simply the best war epic ever. Clancy's best. A must read

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Summary: Disappointing and Contrived
Review: This book fails as a novel because it can't make up its mind. It tries to be both a "techno-thriller" (a phrase invented for Clancy) and a traditional novel. Clancy is trying to portray a major European war in 1986, yet half the book is spent describing the budding romance of an Air Force lieutenant and an Icelandic maiden on the run. When a hackneyed and contrived romance gets far more scope than combat between NATO and the Soviets, you know the author has lost his sense of his strengths. This is a disjointed book. I would have much preferred that Clancy had the guts to write an 800 page novel that explored in depth what a NATO=Warsaw Pact war would have been like. Instead, we get a preposterous plot about the Russians invading Germany to create a diversion to later invade the Middle East to mitigate the destruction of a single oil refinery. Not only that, we get about 400 pages of the soap opera on Iceland. Before the howls of protest begin, let me say I am a closet Clancy fan. I also am a military historian and Navy buff. This is a topic that, I suspect, Clancy could have handled much better had he stuck to the war and left the dime store romances to others.

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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: This deserves 50 out of 10! Once the politics are out of the way, which incidentally, when the Soviets discuss the war strategies, are superbly done, this book kicks butt! Splendid action scenes on land and sea, and under it, great setpieces(Iceland in particular!) and laden with entertaining characters. A MUST READ> BUY THIS BOOK NOW!