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Summary: THIS BOOK IS A WASTE!
Review: Trust me, this book is a total waste of time and money. this is not like clancy! I reccommend all other clancy books but this.

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Summary: SSN-Good Read if you actually read the cover
Review: Having read all of Clancy's writings (solo and collaborative)I feel this is pretty good book. When I first picked it up, I read the book jacket and knew what to expect. I think that this book is judged by many on the same level of his solo books, which is not the way I feel it was written. This book was written to put the reader inside a submarine during a highly tense scenario, so that they could get as close to experiencing sub warfare as possible without joining the navy.

The stratgegies and tactics were highly detailed and believable. The ability of one (1) sub to fight a dingle handed war is certainly far fatched, but isn't this fiction? I enjoyed the book for what it was, not on what I had read before and may have wanted it to be.

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Summary: Clancy?
Review: Having "Clancy" on the cover was toally misleading. Impossible that he even read it! Surely pride would have prevented the use of his good name. The first chapter was nowhere good enough to bear repeating until the end of the book.

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Summary: "Ouch"
Review: It was painful trying to make myself finish this terrible book. This has to be the worst by Clancy and I usually love his writtings. Save your money!

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Summary: One dialogue: over and over and over and over....
Review: After the first attack, nothing changes. Same cut and paste dialogue. "Make tubes one and two ready in all respects, including opening the outer doors." This book went on way too long, and had a predictable conclusion. Is this the same guy that wrote "Red October"?

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Summary: Sub Sunk
Review: Biggest disappointment from Mr.Clancy ever. Seems as if Mr. Clancy only put his name on the cover, none of his usually brillant characterization or plots are between the pages. One sub destroys the entire Chinese navy plus a few Russians. Beyond that I kept waiting for something to happen. No plot, no action aside from "ready tube one and two, fire, reload" throughout the entire book. Definitely one to miss.

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Summary: Save Your Money...Here is the Whole Story For Free
Review: Rambo Sub. loads up on weapons

Rambo Sub. single-handedly kills everything it sight

Rambo sub returns for more weapons

....Repeat 15 times

When I bought this book I was not expecting great character development, but even the technical aspects of the book were horrible. The Cheyene takes on the whole Chinese Navy by itself and even manages to take out some Russians too. There was no strategy involved because the Cheyene is so superior and the Chinese are incompetent I'm glad I only wasted my money on the book and didn't buy the game.

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Summary: Not Clancy's best
Review: This obviously was not intended to be a work that standsalone. You need to have played the CD-ROM game in order to appreciatethe "novel". Actually, it is the absolute worst Clancy book that I have ever read. The character development is mediocre at best, the plot is logical but rather unimaginatve as compared to all of his other novels, and the descriptive passages are pathetic. I know Tom can do better, but I think that he just wrote this for the gamers. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK WITHOUT THE GAME. YOU WILL BE WASTING YOUR TIME AND MONEY. However, the work does have the one saving grace of being well-researched as far as the military tech and tactics are concerned. I am still a fan of Tom Clancy. **

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Summary: Truly disappointing book - READ THIS REVIEW
Review: As a person who owns and constantly reads many of Tom Clancy's books, I found this to be a truly disgusting attempt to sell a book based on an author's name. It is very clear from the first chapter that this storyline may have been conceived partially by Clancy (although I even doubt that), but the book was written by Martin Greenberg, who's name appears in very small print on the cover.

Any suspense that may be found in the storyline is immediately negated by the authors annoying habit of giving away the subplot's ending in the first paragraph of each chapter. As someone in an earlier review had mentioned, this book also repeats itself constantly in the details of a submarine attack - it's as though the author does not trust his readers to remember simple details from page to page.

This book being written to sell a computer game, character development obviously does not take precedence in the writing (although I find it hard to imagine this book as even a tutorial for the game itself). Any 'realism' the author may have strived for is easily washed away by the seeming invincibility of the submarine and the US Navy as a whole. Case in point: The Chinese Navy sortie's a fleet of 60+ warships, 9+ submarines and 30+ aircraft to attack one of America's Carrier Battle Groups (1 carrier, 5 support ships, a carrier air wing, and of course one amazing submarine). Once the commander realizes that the CBG is about to be attacked, he launches his own preemptive strike, decimating the entire Chinese force while not suffering a single casualty - a SINGLE casualty.

There are too many other complaints to even mention here, but suffice it to say that this book will only fulfill its own mission (to sell itself and the game) based entirely on the fact that Tom Clancy's name appears prominently on the cover.

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Summary: From now on I will read the reviews
Review: 2/3 of the way through this book, and no plot, no suspense, no character developement. Our countermaasures always work, theirs never work. Boring, Predictable, un-beleivable. Then I brought up the reviews! At least I'm not alone. If only I had done that befpre buying I could have saved my time, money, and respect for Tom Clancey.