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Summary: What a Scam !!
Review: This book has no stroy line whatsoever. It is a chronology of incidences all strung together. I'll tell you how bad it is...I could have written this book with little effort. Only one character has a name - The CO of the boat. The other officers and enlisted are referred to by title only. Mr. Clancy used his reputation to pull off a fast one.

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Summary: A BAD BOOK
Review: THE FIRST TOM CLANCY BOOK I EVER READ. I LASTED 205 PAGES. COULDN'T TAKE ANY MORE. IT WAS A BOOK OF INITIALS. UNLESS YOU READ IT ALL IN ONE SITTING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT THEY ALL STOOD FOR. JUST A BRUTAL BOOK. YOU SHOULD HAVE A NO STAR CATEGORY.

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Summary: A Look Inside SSN
Review: I choose this book because I think Tom Clancy books are the best! I choose this one particularly because it has to do with the U.S. army. I've always been interested in the army since I was a little kid. Here is a few reasons why I think you might like this book for example it has a great story line, it has great details, and it has great action sequences.
The story line is amazing. It's mainly about a submarine called Cheyenne and its captain Mack Mackey. The submarine gets in a war with Chinese subs controlled by a bad Chinese general who is buying subs from the Russians. Cheyenne fought and beat every single Chinese sub.
Another good feature about this book is that the details are so good that sometimes I actually felt that I was in the book. Sometimes I got so into it that I didn't realize that my brother was trying to get my attention.
Some of the action sequences are so good that I can picture it in my head. I think if a book can make you picture the scenes and sequences in your head then it must be a good book so go out and bye SSN.

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Summary: Don't waste your time with this book!!
Review: This was one of the WORST books I have ever read. No story. No characters. Poor tactits. To sum this book up, Shoot...Kill, Shoot...Kill, Shoot...Kill. The End. If you want Excellent submarine fiction, read all the books by Michael Dimercurio.

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Summary: Tom Clancy's SSN Review
Review: Tom Clancy's SSN draws you in at the start but he doesn't develop the story. In the
beginning, it starts right off with a submarine battle, this is all the book is filled with, battle after battle. Chapter upon chapter there is a battle where the American submarine wins flawlessly. These battles continue throughout the book until the Americans finally win the war. Since there was continuous action through the whole book, the reader loses interest in the story and it seems like there isn't a climax in the story since nothing built up during the progression of the story. Other than the war, there isn't much of a storyline present in the book. The story is also lacking character development and conflicts between characters. SSN is basically a story about war, not about plot development, characterization, or any of the elements incorporated in a good story. The only thing that Tom Clancy did well in this book is describing all of the aspects of the submarines and the war in great detail. In conclusion, don't look into this book for a great story that will make you think about life, only look into it as an elaborate research source for submarines.

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Summary: Mr Clancy what heck are you trying to pull off ?
Review: Well bought this book expecting to be like the other Clancy's
but "beep" (wrong) , in this book you'll read how the americans will kick Chinese rear-end easily on the Spratley islands .
Easy victory , if the chinese were so easy why even bother sending equipment to Taiwan ?
In short US SSN kills one after another Chinese Sub without being threated a lot ... one would think there would be some heavy confrontation but no every kinda seems to easily fall into the American favor ... How about writing a book where you loose first and win afterwards ? should be more exciting ...
Better next time

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Summary: Tom Clancy should be ashamed!
Review: I can't believe that Tom Clancy allowed his name to be put on this book! Does he really want money that badly? Does he really have so little respect for his fans who usually buy his books on the basis of his name alone? Other reviewers have said it very well. There are only two named characters in this book: Captain Bartholomew Mackey and the U.S.S. Cheyenne. Just about everyone else is a job title: messenger of the watch, torpedo room crew, etc. There is no real dialogue. The captain gives an order, usually to launch torpedoes, and someone responds, "Conn, sonar, unit one running hot, straight, and normal." Over and over and over again. There are too many acronyms--SAM, TSAM, BSY-1--and just too much technical detail. I found myself skipping paragraphs trying to get on with the story. Then I realized that there was no story here. I never felt as if the U.S.S. Cheyenne was ever in real jeopardy. After all, as one of the named characters, if something happened to the submarine, the story would be over. Save your money or buy Clancy's Hunt for Red October and get some real excitement!

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Summary: Clancy at his worst
Review: Tom must have been really bored when he wrote the book. UN sanctions against China? With China a permanent member of the UN Security council it would be rather difficult to get the UN to take ANY meassure against China.

As far as submarine strategy is concerned, the book is full of errors and inacuracies. I wonder what role the coauthor (a British Sub Captain) played. Were they getting drunk together, while writing the book?

Complete waste of time and money.

Don't bother with it.

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Summary: Mr. Clancy has no respect for his readers
Review: This is one of the worst books I ever read. I did not go further than page 192. Platitudes, repetitions, and military jargon diarrhea are what this book is all about. Where is the plot? The Chinese Navy is portrayed as providing "sitting ducks" for the glory of USS Cheyenne. Feeding a computer with randomly chosen Navy manuals would not have produced worse reading.
Never again will I buy a book by the same "author".

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Summary: Endless Repetition of Same Torpedo Launching Sequence
Review: This is possibly the worst book I have ever come across. Obviously, SSN is about submarine warfare - launching torpedoes to sink the enemies. Repeat the same battle scene once, twice, ..., 20 times, does that give you a novel? It would be nonsensical even as a computer game. As a book it is, simply, a waste of paper in the environmentally conscious world.