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Summary: Excellent
Review: I got this book for Christmas this year and as soon as i opened it up i was hooked! I read it from cover to cover in less than 2 days and i was definitely satisfied with it. Unlike most other Clancy novels, which are mostly political, Red Storm Rising ditches most of the politics and gets straight down to what Clancy does best: action. the book is crammed full of fast paced action that leaves the reader in suspense. if you are looking for more clancy or think clancy is a good action writer but his political ramblings are subpar, get this today. you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: THIS BOOK RULES!
Review: This book Red Storm Rising starts out really slow and boring but then out of nowhere it grabs you (and draws you) into the action. None could have described world war three better then Tom Clancy. The way he jumps from one person and place to another to cover several different theaters of the war at once is absoulte genius. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the book. You never know what is going to happen next. I can hardly wait till they make a movie about this book.
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Summary: Clancy's Best Novel
Review: This was the first Clancy novel I had ever read - and to this day remains my favorite. He weaves an enthralling tale of the "Third World War", with all of the drama and techno-fetishist's fare we fans expect from his novels.As always his characters are more archetype than real - but they are always enjoyable, if not always believable. No fan of thrillers or modern war novels will be disappointed!
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Summary: Great Book, But Who is the Author?
Review: I really liked this book. I also noticed the verbiage that Mr. Clancy put up front about how it was a collaborative effort with Larry Bond, etc. Some time after I read Red Storm Rising, I read Red Phoenix, which had Larry Bond's name on the cover, and inside he mentioned a Pat Larkin in a similar vein as above. What struck me as interesting was that the writing style and plot development (not the story line) for Red Storm Rising (Clancy/Bond) was almost a twin of Red Phoenix (Bond/Larkin), which led me to the inescapable conclusion that whoever wrote Red Phoenix also wrote Red Storm rising. In other words, I think the bulk of Red Storm Rising (maybe all of it) was actually written by either Larry Bond or Pat Larkin. So I will leave off with a question, which is, who actually wrote Red Storm Rising? I don't think it was Tom Clancy.
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Summary: This book is more like a technical manual
Review: This book has a great beginning, but it is more like a naval operations technical manual than a novel. Some of it is hard to follow for us laymen, and the ending is quite predictable. This book is not a part of the Jack Ryan series. This is a stand alone book. That is what makes this book interesting to me. But again, it was hard to follow because I am not familiar with military operations, weapons, and equipment. This one is for hardcore Clancy fans, submarine fans, and military afficiandos.
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Summary: The Clandestine Dawn of WWIII
Review: Red Storm Rising is an action packed book with a knack for small detail. Tom Clancy clearly shows that he has done an enormous amount of research in the writing of this book. In Red Storm Rising, Clancy gives us an insight as to what might take place if terrorists were to strategically bomb major oil rigs in Russia.
I was very entertained by Red Storm Rising and Clancy's writing keeps my attention very well. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in action books involving events that are not largely farfetched. When Clancy writes, he uses a style that makes you feel like you are watching a movie. There is a lot of dialogue and he reveals most of the plot through character communication. To make his story even better, he employs the use of metaphors in an attempt to bring to scale the situation at hand in the book. For example, in Red Storm Rising, when he refers to the terrorist attack on the oil rig he brings it into a better view by using metaphors so an uninformed reader can get an idea of the seriousness of the situation. He also uses allusions when he writes which shows off his broad knowledge of different countries' militaries and governments. Clancy also utilizes extremely precise details when he writes to paint a picture in your mind of exactly what is going on, otherwise known as imagery. If an explosion has occurred, he will tell you exactly what the scene is like, right down to the last victim. All these elements joined together make you feel like you are an expert on terrorism and weapons just by reading it. He mixes them together powerfully to make his book very poignant. The book overall is about the astronomical domino effect that one act of terrorism has on the world. Three terrorists sabotage a key oil rig in Russia to disrupt the countries economy. The terrorists are successful in their attack and they limit Russia's oil production and supply to 50% of its normal rate. They no longer have enough oil, diesel, or gas to run their country for the next couple of years. After delegations and government meetings, Russia decides that their only way out of the situation is to take control of major oil producing Middle Eastern countries. To do this though, Russia must go through NATO, which includes America and all of her allies. It is a view as to what World War III might be like in the future.
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Summary: Like a lexicon of modern warfare
Review: This book was one of my first "bigger", english, reading experience. I would say it's a lexicon of modern warfare, but written as a terrifying novel. In my opinion, the big difficulty of discribing a whole world war as a novel is that the protagonist can act only at one place at the same time, whereas a world war has more important events at the same moment(because of all branches of military service). Tom Clancy solved this problem in an elegant way. He switchs the scene, for instance, from the battleship captian, fighting submarines at the Atlantic, to the fighterwing commander, who stops the first wave of russian bombers heading towards germany, and so on. This style of describing the war leads the reader through various stories, which give you a picture of the whole war.
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Summary: RSR is the War and Peace of our time
Review: I vaguely recall years ago, mid 91' I believe, picking this book up at a store. I remember taking it home and finding the first 100 pages or so a bit tedious, albeit not uninteresting. And when I got past that first 100 pages the book didn't just kick in, it grabbed me with claws and pulled me in with it! The plot has been described in previous posts, so I won't waste time going over it, except to say that it is one of the most gripping stories I've ever read. The action takes place in varous locales from Moscow's Politburo chambers to Washington DC, to the pilothouse of an ASW frigate hunting Soviet subs, to the barren rocky fields of Iceland. It is written so compellingly well that you will swear you are there, as I did when I witnessed the Russian tank charge across the German landscape, or as I watched a crippled B-52 plow into the craggy ground of Iceland as a bewildered Air Force Lieutenant and his Marine comrades watch in awe. You'll find yourself dumbstruck watching A-10 Warthogs make strafing runs on columns of T-80 tanks and you'll almost be able to smell the fumes from the rocket propellant of the dozens of anti-aircraft missiles chasing them. And if you're a red-blooded American as I am, you'll cheer out loud as Tomahawk cruise missiles streak in to airstrips on the Kola peninsula, and cry when you witness the sinking of a submarine who's crew you knew somehow by spending so much time with them. I don't know how much time passed before I finished this book. I know that I got no sleep while I read it, clenched and trembling hands rapidly shooting through pages as I devoured every detail I could. It is a long book, as too many other posters here have mentioned, but really if you're looking for a good short read, go visit the Dr. Seuss section. Think on this though. The suspense, the feeling of euphoria that you experience while reading it will last that much longer. Maybe the book should have been longer indeed. I certainly wouldn't have complained. Not one bit.
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Summary: The benchmark wargame
Review: When you put Tom Clancy and Larry Bond together, you've got an unbeatable team in the modern military genre. Although a bit dated by now, this novel really delivers. It's gripping from the start, and the action just doesn't let up. The best thing about it is that this scenario could very well have played out at the height of the Cold War. Every aspect of the NATO and Warsaw Pact military machines is masterfully depicted in full, grinding motion. It is amazing how the authors manage to keep a global scale, yet give the reader an up-close and personal tour of fierce combat. This is not a novel for the faint of heart, and an absolute must-read for any military buff.
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Summary: Frustration Rising
Review: This is not a very good book. Really. It starts off in a ridiculous way: Terrorists blow up the largest Soviet oil refinery and the Soviet government starts World War Three against NATO to seize the Persian Gulf oil. Now isn't that a bit stupid? Nobody can be THIS mad! Tom Clancy picked a very unconvincing excuse for starting a war of so great a risk. Okay, I took a deep breath and managed to go on. But then, it gradually turned UNBEARABLE.
The war begins with battles and all kinds of military operations and plans. Yes, air raids, tank battles, antisubmarine warfare and navy convoys are exciting to read about at first. But they are followed by more battles...And more...And more...Well, hundreds of pages of similar battles made me mad more than once. Same, same, same. Chapter after chapter. I thank the Lord for giving me the patience. Carriers, destroyers, tanks, fighters, helos, submarines...And the climax of my frustration was the antisubmarine warfare. Ooh. THAT ALMOST KILLED ME. That has to be the most boring thing in print today. The ASW is as bad as staring at a wall for hours. The book could have been so much better. The first 100 pages were good and the last 100 were really chilling, the Iceland part was okay, but the rest was ruined by monotonous battles. If Clancy had added some more variety, a higher rating would be guaranteed. Instead, there are lots more books that are more worthy of your attention. Don't bother.
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