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Summary: ssn
Review: This is just like a 'Sgt. Rock' comic book. No character development, the enemy is inherently evil and incompetent, and the hero kills everybody while complaining about what hot sweaty work it is. Even the techno talk is repetitious. Definitely a low point for Clancy.
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Summary: It's not that good
Review: After I bought one of those Op-Center books, I checked out the Amazon reviews to see if anyone else thought it was complete drivel. That's when I learned that "Tom Clancy's" means Tom Clancy did NOT write the book; rather, the "created by" guy gave an outline to some ghostwriter. So since then I've steered well clear of any "Tom Clancy's" books and waited for a "Tom Clancy" without the 's. Anyway, this "SSN" drivel had "Tom Clancy" (good) but also "Created by" (bad). Not knowing what type of book it was, I bought it. What a stupid mistake! I made it as far as page 15 where it talks about how they store crates of canned food on the floor of the corridors, and walk around on the crates. "There was not much room on a submarine for storing food, so crates containing the canned goods that the crew needed to eat were loaded into passageways, one on top of the other, making a temporary floor upon which sailors would walk until the food was ready to be eaten." HUH? What on earth kind of convoluted sentence is that? I could write better than that when I was 8 years old, and I'm not even a writer; I'm a programmer! For crying out loud. Tom Clancy shouldn't even put his name on this drivel. The books that he actually writes are among my favorites (except for Rainbow Six but that's another story). Please... don't buy or read this book. You will only encourage them to keep doing this.
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Summary: SSN
Review: Gave it 4 stars because it was non-stop action and I enjoy that. Truth is, it read like a Dolf Lungren movie. You know, the bad guys throw everything they have at you and you don't get scratched. Everytime you shoot, fourteen people drop dead. Sure I like to win, but who doesn't. I just like to win fair and square, and when the story ends, I like to think I really won something. Tom, you can do better than this!
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Summary: The Truth About SSN
Review: This book is not a waste of (A)time or (B)paper. It is tremendous! Kept my attention the whole time and it never really got me bored. I wish for a sequel and other SSN type books by Tom Clancy. The USS Cheychene is amazing. It is big, bad, and just about everything else. The storyline is ifffy. I mean this USS Cheychene destroys just about whatever it is ordered to kill and whatever it feels like killing. I would like to have one or be in one on a mission. Other than that this book is a real good read.
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Summary: ssn
Review: I want my money back. I don't care if I was stupid enough to read all of it. I still want my money back.
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Summary: Not all bad
Review: I liked it...But it was hard to beleive how the Cheynenne sank the entire Chinese Navy alone. Also, why do the Cheynenne's anti-torpedo devices ALWAYS work and the CHINESE and even other AMERICAN ships not work at all?
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Summary: Belongs in a software box, not a bookshelf
Review: Having read so many excellent Tom Clancy books, I can't help but feel cheated. While I still consider Clancy a great writer (how many other authors can write 1,000 page "nailbiters"?), SSN is truly a waste of time, money, and paper.From what I understand, this book relates to a software game he made. This story should've been in the box with the game manual, not as a book. Clancy could've been ahead of the curve and written a thriller about WWIII involving China and America ... instead he wrote the same boring lines over and over again. No thought, no involvement, and no interest on the part of the reader. SSN was a real stinker. I wish I had read the reviews here before I bought the book!
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Summary: how about 0 stars
Review: One star is too much, how about 0 stars! If you are unlucky enough to have bought this book,and have not read it yet, save yourself some time and pick out any chapter and read it. After you read that chapter, throw the book away,you have read the whole thing. The endless redundacy of "make tubes one and two ready in all respects" and "units from tubes one and two running hot,straight, and normal" is mindless. Maybe you get a mindless book, by writting about a video game. Has Mr. Clancy written his last great novel? I don't think so! Has he written his last sequel to a video game? I sure hope so!
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Summary: BORING!
Review: This book disapointed me. Notice how in the book the Chinise lost thousands of lives and ships and America lost none? Also everytime a missile was about to be fired you will her this(And trust me you will hear it a lot)"Tubes one and two ready. Tubes one and two fired electrity. Cut the wires and shut the outer doors. And also the American noisemakers ALWAYS worked and the Chinise noisemakers hardly ever worked! I will dissapointed if this is all that Clancy has instore for his readers anymore.
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Summary: Clancy sinks himself
Review: I can't believe how poor this "novel" is. SSN is totally devoid of character development - the writer (which was probably not Clancy) did not even bother to name the Cheyenne's officers. Dialogue and action were monotonous (open doors one and two...), and featured the Cheyenne single-handedly annihilating the entire Chinese navy. I now know that it was meant to be a guide for the SSN computer game. Should definitely not be a standalone read. I like Clancy a lot, but this one will not be making my book shelf. STAY FAR AWARE!
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