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Summary: Lousy, Beyond a shadow of a doubt
Review: I was extremely disappointed with this poorly-written Tom Clancy 'collaboration' novel. I've read 3 superb novels by Tom Clancy, and Shadow Watch differed so greatly from them in terms of content and readability that I have to wonder whether Tom actually contributed to this novel at all!Structurally, the writing was clumsy and obtuse, the plot was stale, and character development virtually non-existent or cliched. I had to force myself to read the novel past the second chapter. My advise: Don't waste your time reading this book.
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Summary: Nada to write home about
Review: Pretty weak effort here, as Clancy puts his imprimatur on another "Clancy-less" novel. A few techno insights, as always, but the tepid plot and exceedingly weak ending preclude any real enjoyment. Moreover, the MSRP of $7.99 is massively chutzpah-laden!
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Summary: come back Jack...
Review: Remember Tom Clancy, the author of pretty good thrillers like The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games? They were exciting reads, were made into good movies and starred Jack Ryan, a rock-jawed and resourceful defender of truth, justice and the American Way. Come back Jack - and come back Clancy. This book is like a lot of other recent Clancy output: bland technobabble and military nonsense that reads as though it has been chucked in a writing blender and reheated in a literary microwave, and not a patch on, say, Clear and Present Danger. The plot: it's 2001, and a Bond-style villain is set on messing up an international space station and wreaking havoc on the US. The characters mouth acronyms as locations shift from the US to Asia to South America, but you'd read more convincing action in a car-repair manual. Clancy is now a franchise, really: the cover of Shadow Watch says it was 'created' by him and another author - and it's based on a computer game. Clancy is spread too thin these days to be able to write effectively.
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Summary: Interesting, but needs work
Review: Shadow Watch (ISBN 0-425-17188-4) by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg is a descent book, but needs more development. This is the only book in the Power Plays series that I have read, but I have read other Tom Clancy books. I found the story hard to start, but once I got past the opening paragraphs the story was okay. The characters, particularly Annie Caulfield, need a little more fleshing out. The overall plot is plausible, but there are some holes that are not typical of Tom Clancy's style. Overall a good book for reading, if there is nothing else available.
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Summary: The poorest collaboration yet
Review: Shadow Watch is poorly written, pointlessly rambles, inaccurate, fails to resolve the situations opened by the author(s). I find it hard to believe that Tom Clancy read, much less collaborated on this work. I have read and enjoyed all of his fiction and most of the collaborations and, in my opinion, this is the worst. A shuttle explodes on the launch pad. We never really know why or how. There are several dream sequences in the book which have no point I could find. Fortunately, these are italicized and are easy to skip. The cocaine carried on three flatbed trucks is loaded into a Beechcraft Bonanza, a single engine light plane. At the end, the villain, thwarted, simply walks away. He may be seen in a later book but I will never know. The last line of the acknowledgments reads "But most important, it is for you, my readers, to determine how successful our collective endeavour has been." For this reader, the endeavour was not successful at all.
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Summary: It got 2 stars for 1/5 of it's pages.
Review: Start reading it only if you get it for free! Read the first 60 pages and ask someone to tell one what else happenes. It will take him around 1.2 seconds to do so. It's not worth 200+ pages.
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Summary: Not worth the paper it is printed on.
Review: Terrible. Having read (and thoroughly enjoyed) the likes of Patriot Games and Hunt for Red October I feel bitterly disappointed by this spectaculary unsuccessful collaboration. It seems to me that dedicated Clancy readers are being exploited and cheated by being duped into buying this utter rubbish that is clearly not his work. It is the work of an ameteur. If this book did not have Clancy's name on the front of it than it would surely not have been published. I had to force myself to finish it. I really couldn't care less what happened to anyone in the story as the characters were so badly drawn and deadly boring. I am very glad that I kept the receipt. Line your hamster cage with it, use it to start your fire, even make little aeroplanes out of it, but PLEASE DON'T READ IT!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The beginning of the book starts out great, it immediately grabs your attention and keeps you glued to it throughout. However, the ending has got to be the lamest of all time. There was no drama to the end and it seemed to leave me hanging, expecting more. It is a fairly decent book however, it could be much better.
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Summary: You people are mixed up!
Review: This book is the LAST book of the series! Not the first! The books is better if you read the first two novels that you all neglected to read!Read Politika and Ruthless.com first. They came before Shadow Watch.This book has great ideas but it makes little sense and isn't as good if you don't read the others first. This is a great novel!
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Summary: Shadow Watch
Review: This book was absolutely the worst book I have ever read. Tom Clancy is a great author except when he's writing the Power Plays series. All three Power Plays stink. This book never, ever caught my attention, especially with the stupid dream sequences and the stupid plot. The character were horrible. I will not read another Power Plays book.
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