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Executive Orders

Executive Orders

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Riveting Audio Rendition
Review: Edward Herrmann does a first rate job in narrating Executive Orders. His voice characterizations are easy to understand and keep straight. The audio is crisp and clear and easily heard in the environment of a car. This is typical Tom Clancy fare. You will find yourself on the edge of your (car) seat for the whole duration! Well worth the purchase price as you will listen to it again and again. 6 hours.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Probably Clancy's Best
Review: 'Executive Orders' makes a strong case for being Clancy's greatest novel. Dealing with the beginnning of Jack Ryan's Presidency, 'Orders' has Ryan coming to grips with his new situation as chief executive while battling foreign and domestic enemies who seek to undermine the USA. One of the greatest aspects of Clancy's novels is the optimism in America that they inspire. 'Orders' in no exception. Thrilling in it's action, daring in it's philosiphy, and just a lot of fun, this is truly a great modern American novel. No-it's not high art, but it is what it is- A wonderful novel by Tom Clancy.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: un buen libro para atajar una puerta
Review: este libro es excelente para atajar una puerta o para hacer ejercisios, junto con otros libros malos para levantamiento de pesas. la trama parece la de una pelicula de esas que se ven para esperar que a uno le de sueno. un presidente que tiene que tomar el mando despues de que el gobernante actual es asesinado con todo y gabinete, una trama de unos arabes, es aburridisimo y mas porque el autor se lo toma todo tan en serio y termina creyendose su historia. ademas el libro es excesivamente largo, no lo termine, con cada pagina me iba a burriendo mas y finalmente despues de usarlo como banquito, termine regalandoselo a una profesora amiga que es fanatica de tom clancy, asi que creo que lo deje en buenas manos.

LUIS MENDEZ luismendez@codetel.net.do

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Yeetch
Review: When I began reading Tom Clancy's books I was enthralled with the author's exciting plots- my summers were usually devoted to reading and re-reading his books as I'd imagine myself in the thick of the action. Since Clancy wrote 1991's "The Sum Of All Fears", his books have become longer, duller and less interesting. I found "Executive Orders" to be his worst work to date. The slow meandering plot is pretty hard to follow- not because it's so complicated. It's not. The problem is that the plot takes so much time getting going that you lose interest as Clancy positions the pieces one-by-one. The actual plot is pretty derivative of all of Clancy's other books, so the ending isn't much of a surprise. The most basic problem with Clancy's work is in his characters. Clancy obviously envisions Ryan to be a blue-collar everyman, just one that slipped into the White House through extraordinary circumstances. Much is made by the author of his hero's status as an "independent". It's too bad that Ryan comes across, consistently, as a doctrinaire, by-the-numbers, straight out of the pages of The National Review, conservative. Clancy, who has always been injecting his right-of-center politics into his books (though more obviously and stridently of late), puts his politics out in front here. "Executive Orders" is more politics than policy. Clancy is on his soapbox and the plot too often gets shuffled to the back for President Ryan to give some loopy tirade about liberal "special interests" (and there aren't conservative ones?). First clue that non-conservatives won't be given equal time: the book is dedicated to Ronald Reagan, who "won the Cold War" according to Clancy. Give me a break. Too bad Clancy couldn't have made his case without his hero's preachy speeches. After hearing Ryan's 1,314th speech informing another character he "is not a politician!" the reader will want to yell back: "Then shut up already!" The character of Jack Ryan has always been a difficult one to judge- heroic by far in Clancy's other novels, Ryan makes the transition from preachy, sanctimonious hero to preachy, sanctimonious jerk in this novel. A Tom Clancy novel hits you hard and fast and the action takes your breath away, but when the plot slows down and we try to get character moments they sometimes seem painfully forced. Clancy characters are written like post-it notes: this is the Good Guy who is a conservative/soldier/CIA analyst, etc. This is the Bad Guy/Girl who is a liberal/Russian spy/terrorist/feminist, etc. Can you really tell me how much different the characters of Jack Ryan and John Clark are from one another, aside from their names and character histories? Not a whole heck of a lot. I'm sure Clancy thinks he's giving America the kind of leader (read: conservative) they want in this book, but Ryan comes across as a breezy, "I'm-doing-the-right-thing and people will see that" conservative whose politics and style bear a striking resemblance to Newt Gingrich. The old Goldwater-for-President slogan "In your heart you know he's right", is a favorite dream of conservatives and Clancy relies on it here. Why does the subplot with the "mountain men" militia group fizzle out so spectacularly? Probably because Clancy can't bring himself to make people whose political viewpoint he sympathizes with the bad guys. In the end the reader will sigh with relief when he or she finishes this monstrosity. I did. My advice to you, don't even pick this one up.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another page turner...
Review: It usually takes me about the first 180 pages of a Clancy novel to really get into it. After that I have trouble putting it down until the last page is turned. This one was no exception. Clancy has the connections to provide chillingly accurate detail about world politics and political intrigue that undoubtedly has leapt right up from the Joint Chiefs of Staff's book of possible terrorist scenarios. But Clancy is also able to provide a little bit of human, even in his most detestable characters. I still have trouble keeping track of the sheer number of characters Clancy introduces (I'm always paging back to see who someone is or where they came in), and I still think Red Storm Rising is the infinitely BEST Clancy novel ever, but this was a good read. Can't wait to jump into Rainbow Six...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Really a great novel
Review: After reading Debt of Honor, I was convinced that Clancy was a great writer. After reading Executive Orders I can only say it's even better than the previous one. All loose strings are solved, you can feel the tension as you read the pages. It can really inmerse you in everyone of the characters, and then it just turn into a great novel. With a very good plot that forces you to keep reading.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An explosive book from the master
Review: Tom Clancy delivers a massive read that in it's own right is worth every page used. Jack Ryan, sworn into the Vice Presidency only seconds before now finds himself, his family, and his security detail the only survivors of an elaborate plot to kill the President, Congress, the Juctices of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, and the Cabnit during a joint session of Congress. Suddenly plunged into the most stressful job in the world he must find those responsible, moniter an assasination in the Persian Gulf, and respond to the most horrible of crimes, a biological attack on the U.S.! This thriller belongs in evey good literature collection and is a must have for all Clancy fans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Inevitable!
Review: Through a twist of events, Jack Ryan is thrust into the presidency. Not at all sure he wants this tremendous responsibility, or the politics that goes with it, he doesn't even get the luxury of a "honeymoon period" before he must face a horrible breakout of Ebola. As always, life is one catastrophe after another, and Jack performs admirably. This is a great book, rivaling his earlier Red Storm Rising for excitement. Of course it screams for a sequel, which has been a l-o-n-g time coming. The Bear and the Dragon will be released in August 2000...I've already pre-ordered it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A long, but good book
Review: I thought this book was great. Tom Clancy has written a lot of great books, but this is among his best. It is frightening how easily the events in the book could have taken place in the real world. Clancy has written a lot of his novels in this way and they are all top-notch.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Is this up to standard?
Review: I am a great fan of Clancy, and own several Op-centre books along with some powerplays and several others, such as Rainbow Six. This book is large, i man LARGE. And although Rainbow six was large, i was gripped throughout RS. This, on the other hand, was too long for its own good. He weaves plots together superbly, but this time the woven basket is too huge. You begin to lose track unless you are reading constantly for days. So, if you buy a Clancy masterpiece, don't buy this one. Buy Rainbow Six of the Cardinal of the Kremlin. They are better.


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