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Summary: Never turn a video game into a book
Review: Dull book. Please do not turn any more video games into books if this is the type of product we will see. This was more like a how to win this game book than a story. I never finished it.
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Summary: No way.
Review: On the basis of the many hours of great reading I have enjoyed from the pen of Tom Clancy I refuse to believe that he had any part in writing this amateurish waste of time. The book is boring, grammatically flawed, repititious, lackluster and totally without any redeeming feature. Clancy could do better than this during a visit to his dentist, indeed, to his proctologist. Don't even think about wasting your time or money on this miserable waste of paper.
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Summary: This book is horrible.....
Review: i read half the book. then i threw it away. the i took it out of the garbage and burnt it. then i pissed on the ashes. hahah. seriously it was the worst book ever. i should have just burnt the money i used to buy it. it would have been more exciting to listen to a tape recorder over and over and over and over. just my opinion.
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Summary: This was a book?
Review: Nothing but a long repetitive string of cliches and utterly stupid commands like "Navigator, plot a course to take us to starboard of the Spratley Islands." Clancy, never really much of a writer beyond technocratic jargon, has become very, very lazy. The idea for this novel (war with China) had lots of promise, more than "Red Star Rising", but it wasn't developed much beyond a poorly written and sketchy outline. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: SSN is Action Packed!
Review: I thought Clancy's SSN was perhaps not his best, but definitly a good one. Although Clancy doesn't build up his characters, solid characterization is not needed here. It is intended as a guide for the computer game, and the action and even more important, the detail, is what gives this book its life. I couldn't put it down, and sometimes when I'm bored I find myself reading the best parts again. I was wondering, where did they get all those photos of the news ancors reporting on the war? Is there a movie to SSN? I would fefinitly have to see it.
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Summary: Great action but too predictible....
Review: AS many people have said here, Mr. Clancy makes the U.S.S Cheynne as the Super-Sub of the entire universe. Each battle is very predictible with only the other plots being interesting.
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Summary: The WORST Clancy book yet!
Review: This is by far the worst book ever "created" by Clancy. I'm not sure why he even puts his name on the garbage that has been released lately as it is sadly evident that he had little to do in writing this book. The plot is marginal at best and is not built up at all. The characters have no background and do not have any allure to them. The techno babble is over the top and repetitious to the point where only a submariner could understand most of the book. Don't waste your time or money on this book as you'll be thoroughly disappointed.
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Summary: If you want character development buy a Harlequin ...
Review: I mean there are a million of the good girl meets bad boy and shes the only one that sees his redeeming qulities kind of book .... SSN is not the typical Clancy fare but it certainly was a light and easy going read. Unfortunately like in real life on SSN's ther is little margin for errors or damage reports since you are either in top fighting condition in the sub or dead. Not too many subs are found limping into to port or like bombers after a mission making crash landings at home with thousands of bullet holes in the wings. Nope, subs are not forgiving .... there is generally only one landing when something goes wrong and usually it's like a few thou fathoms down .... The action may be reptitive in the book because it deals with a hunter killer sub and thats what happens in the whole book ... it's hunter killer. If you are looking for a Red october kind of book then don't buy, but if you are looking for a little boy Sunday afternoon with nothing to do kind os book, you'll enjoy it .... It's like watching the Discover channel on nuke sub tactics .... I LOVED IT!
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Summary: Boringly Repetitive
Review: The SSN's plot is an eye catcher which drew me to read it. A very realisticly tense situation emerges by a daring attack by Chinese to control the Spartly island. This emerges to a confrontation with U.S in shape of an undeclared war in Pacific. With this the chapter ends and so could the novel. I felt Chancy could have elaborated more on the prevalent tension, instead of derailing into a seemingly repetitive plot of the sole submarine USS CHEYENNE which brings the entire Chinese fleet to the ground. Cheyenne could be faced against a chinese task force of sixty ships or the most sophisticated submerged adversary the outcome from the skirmishes were the same. The cowboys embellish yet another victory. The Chinese navy is masked as un-intelligent and un-strategic foes resembling to a navy of a banana republic. These ramblings continue on for the rest of the book until the captain of the submarine is decorated with an admiral rank. I have the utmost regard for Clancy's writing, but this certainly is not his exalted piece.
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Summary: One of Tom Clancy's best books ever written.
Review: I really liked this book. The idea of World War III between the United States and China provided a lot of suspense, action and excitement. I thought that the subject of this book was effective, convincing and realistic. I don't think or believe that this book was depressing or boring at all. I personally liked it and enjoyed reading it. I think that this is a book that is really worth reading if you're a fan of Tom Clancy books as I am.
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