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Summary: Clancy should put this in mothballs
Review: Wow-this stunk! It will be along time before I get another audio tape, because I'd rather listen to commercials while I commute than this junk. Clancy should hire better ghost writers.
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Summary: One SSN Defeats Entire Chinese Navy
Review: This has to rank as one of the worst novels ever published. The premise is unrealistic, the story lacks emotion, and each chapter is a mirror image of the previous one. Send sub out, sub sinks everything in it's path, sub doesn't even get a scratch, sub returns to rearm. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Yawn. Good Guys Win Again... and again... and again...
Review: SSN reminds me of a children's book. See Mack. Mack commands the nuclear submarine USS Cheyenne. Captain Mack is very smart. Captain Mack is omniscient and unerring. See the Chinese. The Chinese are inept and stupid. Chapter 1: See Cheyenne submerge. Hear Cheyenne acquire a Chinese sub on its sonar. See Captain Mack launch an MK48 torpedo. See the Chinese sub disappear. Captain Mack is happy. Chapter 2: Hear Cheyenne find another Chinese sub (different class this time) on its sonar. See Captain Mack launch another torpedo. See China loose another sub. Captain Mack has another good day. Chapter 3: Cheyenne is rearmed by a sub tender. Chapter 4: Captain Mack is worried. The Cheyenne targets a surface ship with a harpoon antiship missile but also hears the stealthy approach of another Chinese sub. What will Mack do? See harpoons and torpedos speed away from Cheyenne. See more Chinese assets destroyed. Another bad day in Beijing. Chapter 5..6..7... Etc. etc. etc. It is hard to read "Prepare tubes 1 and 2 in all respects including opening outer doors" on every page, okay. The name of this book should have been "How Many Chinese Subs Can One Sub Sink." If you have just been enthralled by the last few paragraphs then SSN is the book for you. Otherwise, dust of "Run Silent, Run Deep."
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Summary: The problem is: It is US invading
Review: Remember the South China Sea is belong to China, hence the logic become problematic
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Summary: Unrealistic in the Extreme!
Review: The American L.A. Class submarine Cheyenne killing more than 60 Chinese vessels and essentially winning this limited war single-handed without getting so much as a scratch? Get serious! I know Chinese submariners and Russian submarines may not be quite the equal of ours, but this was ridiculous. Even the way it was written stunk - no emotion, no drama, no excitment. I think Mr. Clancy's popularity is going to start sliding badly if he keeps allowing his name to be associated with such as this.
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Summary: Not one of Clancy's best
Review: This was not one of Clancy's greater novels. Some of the action scenes kept you rivited but, after awhile it was hard to believe one submarine could sneek up on the entire Chinese fleet and sink over 100 ships and subs. Also, there was a lot of repetitive sayings such as "open the outer doors" "make tubes one and two ready" etc.. every action paragraph. Finally, The book is easy to follow and I have to commend his knowledge of warfare but, this was not one of his finest writings.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: This is an awsome book. It starts off when large amounts of oil is discovered in the Spratly Islands. China invades these islands to get money and America reacts with war. Capt. Bartholomew Mackey, captain of the USS Cheyenne attack submarine is sent out to defend the Spratlys. It is a great book and it was my first Clancy book and it is deffinitly not my last.
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Summary: Tou Lee's review of SSN
Review: SSN is not as good as other Tom Clancy books, but it holds its own against other submarine novels. During a time of distress between China and Taiwan, the U.S. is brought into the battlefield by Chinese submarine attempted attacks. Unfortunately, the Chinese submarines are no match for those of the United States.
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Summary: Nearly turned me away from reading altogether!
Review: I am sorry to have to write this about one of Tom Clancy's books, but I must. The book is so UNREALISTIC. The situations that it is in are so untruthful. If these were to actually happen, the Cheyenne would have died before I stopped reading it, aroud page one-hundred. It can meet up with any number of submarines and attack, kill and defeat EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! I am sorry Mr. Clancy but this book, is a definate FLOP compared to your others, in my personal opinion.
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Summary: Too much action, too little suspense
Review: I loved the original Clancy books (Ryan Series), and was very disappointed with the garbage of the "Net" series. I was hoping this would be a return to the glory days; it was not. The plot was a little thin for this reader, and while I enjoy the action aspect of most books, this one had way too much of it, and each encounter had anticipated results. If he was fired on, he evaded successfully. If you were shooting torpedos, you always hit the mark. The action was there but the suspense wasn't. That is not to say that SSN was a bad book. It still provided a few hours of enjoyment, but not the true excitement one would expect from a Clancy novel. Tom needs to stop counting his money and return to that which made him popular.
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