Tom Clancy's Power Plays : Politika

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Summary: Can't be Tom Clancy !!!
Review: To this point I have ever been a rabid Tom Clancy fan, but this work, if indeed it was penned by Mr. Clancy' falls so far below the standards of excellence set by his previous novels that I find his authorship doubtful. An awful waste of time and paper.

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Summary: Power Plays is power-less
Review: Although Tom Clancy is highly regarded as a adventure writer, I found "Power Plays" limp and unrewarding. The characters jump from one place to another in such disconnected fashion that I found myself not caring for any of them. To me the story was predictable and--dare I say it--boring. There is none of the depth that early Clancy books possess. I had the feeling, like with Michael Crichton's "Airframe", that this book was written for one reason: to make money via sequals, cd ROM's, and a movie. This does not make for good writing!

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Summary: A good yarn, but too many errors
Review: //From an unacknowleged letter to the publisher about the paperback edition// Page Erratum Comment 18 Bashkir...Far Eastern I think you mean "Siberian"; the Bashkirs are not in the Far East. If "Bashkir" is not an ethnic Bashkir, why does he have this name? (There is a famous pianist with the name Bashkirov) 30 Romual Perhaps you mean the Polish first name Romual'd (the apostrophe indicating the Russian soft sign, that being how the name is spelled in Russian) 43 Bishir yetso Neither I nor another experienced Russian linguist have any idea what this means. 62 vor v. zakone The period is not necessary (it's not a middle name!); rather than "godfather", such a person is more like the Mafia "made man" or, simply, "professional (as opposed to petty) thief", who subscribes to a code. See "Soviet Prison Camp Speech", by Meyer Galler, based largely on Solzhenitsyn's early works, for an excellent reference on this subject 110 Republican convention ?the previous summer"; in 1998? 181 Gorbachev He wasn't president in 1992 235 MIDI MIDI is a digital protocol governing the transmission of musical data between sound modules/synthesizers and computers or other sound modules/ synthesizers 261 Zgranitsa etc. Za granitsa (SIC) is a prepositional expression; no native Russian speaker would use it as the subject of a sentence like an English speaker might. 337 Mercedes Wold a rabid Russian nationalist/ Communist be seen in one of these? Bad image. . 343 Komerade ??? You mean "tovarishch"? "Komerad" is what German soldiers traditionally say when about to surrender 364 IL-76 This is a cargo plane, not a passenger plane. Although it is used to carry paratroopers, they don't sit in "passenger seats" any more than US airborne units do.

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Summary: Clancy's Politika
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone out there who doesn't currently know a great deal about strategic and corporate warfare in the 21st century. The book is a rather grand book for those who haven't read a Tom Clancy style book before. I say his style as it's not truly his writing, at least the majority of it. The plot of the book is not overly complex while still offering enough complexity for those who have already ventured into the depths of Clancy-ness. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a "Tom Clancy style" book.

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Summary: A Great Book!!!
Review: The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian federation into chaos. If you've read any other books from the Power Plays series this would be a good one. Besides being a good book, it jumps around a lot from place to place, but it all falls together. My opinion is that Politika is "a must read", and after reading it I would read more from this series of Tom Clancy books.