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Summary: Seems forced which creates a dull cast of characters
Review: Though Clany is usually a master of creating complex, real to life characters, this work strikes me as dull. As the dull plot progresses, the characters encounter Monolith Software, which is accused of illegal marketing practices(he should simply admit Monolith is Microsoft) as well as other hideos deeds. I would only reccommend purchasing this novel if you are intent on reading all of Clancy's work.
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Summary: The worst book Clancy has written, very dissappointing
Review: The story moves forward terribly slow. Found the characters weak, the story line slow to develop. Had to force myself to finish the book. Clancy, until now has always been one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: Corporate action, adventure story satisfies
Review: While not great literature, Ruthless.com is a good, light action adventure story. While the part about the attempted highjacking of a nuclear sub with the President on board is far-fetched to say the least, the part about the attempted ruthless corporate takeover rings true to fact. In this day of all too common "hostile mergers", i.e. takeovers, a corporate head willing to use any means, including murder, is all too believable.
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Summary: Ruthless.com is an action packed thriller!!!!
Review: I like all the action in the book and how Tom Clancy goes into great detail. I also like the plot of the story. The idea of one men trying to keep a group of terrorists from acquiring the controll of super weapons The one thing I didn't like was all the talk about buisness and stocks. Alot of it went way over my head. I would reccomend this book to most guys because I dont think girls would put up with any killing or military stuff.
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Summary: never fully develops the story line
Review: The back cover talks about the encryption issue, yet this subject is never fully developed in the book - it is alluded to here and there, but how it all fits into the major scheme of things only becomes somewhat apparent towards the end of the book. Additionally, I found the whole story line to be lacking. Not the usual Clancy suspense and elaborate story line.
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Summary: This book would make great kindling for your fire.
Review: A nice comparison for ruthless.com would be a pre-fabricated house. This book is boring and probably took less than a month to write. Trite dialouge, with a lot of techno-babble in between makes this the dullest, Clancy book yet. The characters are poorly developed as is the plot. Would somebody please bring back Jack Ryan? Even the OP-Center series were better than this book produced from a video game.
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Summary: Underdeveloped storyline and characters
Review: Sorry, but this is one of the worst "Clancy" books I've read. The characters are some of the most paper-thin personalities Clancy has created to date. Also, the plot took forever to unfold, then rapidly wrapped up in the last 15-20 pages or so. This left me feeling cheated, especially because the first chapters of the book were well done. Overall, I would have to say that if Clancy writes or "creates" any more books like Ruthless.com, I will stop reading his work. One caution, although this book is a techno-thriller, I found the descriptions of wounding/killing much more graphic than what I'm use to with Clancy's work.
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Summary: Not Clancy's best
Review: The beggining was very boring and some parts confusing, but, like most Clancys once I get through the beggining I couldn't put it down
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book had Tom Clancy's name on it. However, it did not have the look or feel of a Clancy novel. The story was marginally developed. The conclusion was not worth reading the book for.
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Summary: Lame dot-com thriller
Review: This book centers on a US company's refusal to market its encryption software to the worldwide market. It is written as if the government was OK with that, but these high minded software companies don't want this powerful encryption technology to fall into the hands of EVIL (apparently any non US citizen would be that, but of course there are no bad guys here!). Anyway, this is pretty funny because in reality the government was the one without a clue and was blocking encryption software from being sold outside the US, even though much of it was freely available from many places outside the US already. Another funny bit is the "stock crash" news clipping: the stock fell over $15 down to $45 over a week. Heh, for a tech company that is doing pretty good -- it is still at $45 a share after all :-)
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