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Summary: executive orders
Review: This book is best novel in sometime. Tom clancy is master of the war fiction.
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Summary: Could happen?
Review: Well as i finished Debt of Honor, i thought "Well the next one can't be any where near as good as this one". I was wrong. After the destruction of the U.S. government, Jack Ryan is the soul leader of the country. Now he must face enemies, foriegn and domestic. What i loved most about this book is how Clancy lets you into the head of his characters. I like how we can view the reasons for an evil characters actions, how it was justified. He hints on what surprises lay ahead, but the eventual outcome will surprise you even more. My other reason for liking this book is the feasibility of most of it. Ok, maybe the destruction of the government would be a little hard, but the actions against the american people and the presidents family, well thats so easy to do its scary. I hope someone important read this one.
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Summary: Worth the time it takes to read
Review: Tom Clancy shows how the United States political system should be run! This book shows what could happen if politicians weren't scared about their careers and actually tried to accomplish something. Though long, it develops a very good plot, and i think this book is one of Tom Clancy's best. The ending is spectacular, or at least i think so. As usual Tom Clancy produced a great page turner and an overall great book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This one is well-worth checking out. I'm a big fan of current 90's style best sellers like 'The Triumph and the Glory' and 'Going After Cacciato', I appreciate their candour and gritty reality. 'Executive Orders' is every bit as effective in this regard. The storytelling is first-rate, the characters memorable, it is Clancy at his best again after a couple of mediocre offerings.
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Summary: This is a bad book and a waste of a chunk of your life
Review: This book starts out slowly, has a 1000 pages of setup before any action occurs, has no payoff and leaves many of plot lines unresolved. The first part of the book is boring and repititious. How many different ways are needed to show the effect on Jack Ryan's family? The very detailed section of rebuilding the government is not very interesting because it is such an improbable situation and nothing is to be learned from it. Clancy also uses it as a political platform by making every evil politician a liberal. By about page 400, you want to drop the book, but then many interesting plot lines started to develop. However, these too started to get repititious. For instance, the moral misgivings of the evil Iranian doctor are constantly repeated. It isn't until around page 900 that any action results from all this preparation. But that single plot line is quickly resolved and the book goes back into setup mode. By page 1100, so many things have been setup up you can't guess how they will be resolved and you come to expect a big payoff in the end. But, this never happens. It is as if the writer got to page 1200 and then suddenly realized the book must be wrapped up within the next 100 pages. Many of the plot lines that took hundreds of pages to setup are resolved in a very unsatisfying way in just a few lines. Other issues never get resolved and the plots are left hanging. This review of the book is kind of long, repititious and doesn't have a good conclusion. I thought that would be fitting.
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Summary: Dull. Insulting. Bad.
Review: Tom Clancy was once my favorite author. "Executive Orders" pretty much confirms that I've out-grown his work. Clancy's skills have been in decline since 1989's "Clear and Present Danger". "Executive Orders" sums up many of the things that are wrong with his writing- the endlessly long plots, the technical-laden language, clunkey dialouge. Clancy's heros are dull- one-dimensional over-achievers who seem like xeroxes of one another. Clancy's villians are worse- charactures, one-dimensional bad guys. It is as if Clancy is so afraid of the reader thinking for him or herself he finds it necessary to stack the deck. Clancy's political sentiments are expressed with the subtlety of a jack-hammer. Those not sharing Clancy's right-of-center mindset will find their beliefs and their intelligence insulted time and again.Stay Away. Stay far away from this one.
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Summary: I wish this book would have never ended
Review: My wife kept telling me to read the book, but I didn't want to b/c of its length. Now that I have read it, I am sorry that it is not longer. It was one of the best if not the best book I have ever read. I am a political junkie and this book really hit home on some things. I really wish we could have a president like Jack Ryan who was more concerend about getting things done the right way then in getting things done the political way.
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Summary: Exciting, with a little too much detail
Review: The book was excellent and quickly grabs your attention. The biggest problem with the book is that he, as usual, goes into too much detail with every little aspect of the story. It is understandable to some extent, but it is sometimes just overdone. He could have made the book shorter. All in all though, it was very difficult to put down once you begin reading it. I loved it and can't wait for the movie to follow.
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Summary: The yet well known John Jack Ryan, becomes president of USA
Review: It's a good book, some very cool things happen in it, and Clancy built up a good plotting, but since I've read other Clancy-novels, I think that this novel could have been written with more tension, so the story of over 1000 pages would not get boring, which it, unfortunatly, but true, sometimes did...
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Summary: BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!!!
Review: Without a doubt this is the best book I have ever read. It is suspenseful, exciting, and will blindside you with unexpected events. If you like to read this is the best book for you. I would recommend this to anyone!
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