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Summary: GET AN EDITOR!!!!
Review: Word on the street is that Clancy is so successful he refuses to use an editor -- he needs one, desperately! His stories used to be intruiguing and well-written, but his work has steadliy declined to the point where one would think Executive Orders was written by a tenth-grader. The story-line has also grown tired and anachronistic, although there are obviously enough readers who want that. An editor might be able to temper Clancy's one-sided political bias so that his work could be enjoyable by all readers, but that must not be what Clancy wants. I used to enjoy Clancy's work, but Executive Oders was the last novel I will read by him. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME with this book if you are looking for exciting literature.
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Summary: Clancy's Worst
Review: This book sucks. It is criminally overlong, far fetched, full of right wing propaganda, is racist, and not even the military tactics are probable. Clancy has been spending far to much time hanging around military types and it their gung-ho attitude has rubbed off. While Clancy makes out that the results of the battles in his books are based on those of the Gulf War the US army got these resutlts by attacking retreating and demorilized Iraqies, not going head to head with far superior forces. I normally enjoy Clancy's books but this one is unreadable.
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Summary: Hodge-podge of technology hung on an unconvincing tale.
Review: I bought the hardback as a remainder, and that should have warned me. The author's extreme right-wing -- dare I say fascist -- views shine through every paragraph. The US is the only 'good guy' in the world. If you haven't read the previous 2 books in the trilogy you will find it almost impossible to follow the first half, and by the time you reach the second, you'll wish you hadn't bothered. The characters are cardboard and two-dimensional; sub-plots bear little or no relevance to the story and peter out in Deus-ex-machina style. ('Suddenly a cop came in and arrested them. They went to jail and everyone lived happily ever after') type of thing.I have to assume that Clancy's editor has nodded the book through without so much as a glance. It needed cutting by at least 50%. The mainstay of the plot is an unlikely tale about a foreign government attacking the USA with a variant of ebola virus. All the details appear to have been lifted wholesale from an earlier highly successful book, (nonfiction paperback) -- which I have, but can't (infuriatingly) recall the title. The main character, Jack Ryan, seems to have turned into some kind of fascist since 'Hunt For Red October' and is the most unlikeable protagonist I've read in many years.
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Summary: What we need is a real president
Review: This is an extremely good book. I have enjoyed reading Jack Ryan go from being a simple anaylist to our supreme commander and chief. Too bad this book is only a work of, and Jack Ryan a character of fiction. I believe that he would be unmeasurably better than the one we already have.
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Summary: Great entertainment
Review: Great is the word for this book that contains a lot of pages to deal with. As a clancy fan I bought it specifically to read it in the sun while being on holiday. As it was, I kept on reading day and night and finished the book in record time because it contains (as usual) several thrilling stories. If you set aside the 'slightly' patriotical (nationalist?) views of mr. Clancy and his sometimes to long texts on financial matters (on taxes) there still remains an impressive book for all to enjoy. I have been, am and will remain enthusiastic about mr. Clancy's books. With this book, he hasn't let me down!
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Summary: This story rocks from beginning to end.
Review: You'll find yourself wishing that a change of the government that takes place in the story could happen for real. The retribution sought by the U.S. was purely poetic. One of Tom's best. If you like Clancy, you will not want to miss this.
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Summary: Simplistic
Review: If plot holes and red herrings appeal to you, you've come to the right place. Clancy's effort here (I wish it weren't so damn difficult to argue with success) is just too pat for my tastes. If you make it halfway through and haven't figured out the last half, well, maybe you're a worthy candidate for future Clancy novels. The essentials of this are that the US is a total island in the global community and thus stands alone against the cartoonish forces of evil. When things go wrong, they go wrong Big Time. Not to mention the extraordinarily unlikely sequence of events that sets the stage for the intrigue. Naturally, the intelligence community comes to the rescue and all is well. This would more palatable were it not for Clancy's dogged insistence in forcing his right-wing proclivities on the audience. Rarely are we left to draw our own conclusions about the supposed events, for Clancy never fails to seize the opportunity to tell us what he thinks (and, if he had his way, what *we* should think), typified by ridiculously-reverential references to Ronald Reagan. (Had to run for the Pepto-Bismol on those...) In summary, if you spend as much time in airports as I do, this could be a reasonable choice -- 1300+ pages in paperback, after all -- but if well-constructed, and *logical* storylines are appealing to you, try Vonnegut.
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Summary: Irritating and poorly if at all edited!
Review: Bang! Missed me this time Mr Clancy. I found this book to be in dire need of an unafraid and uncompromising editor. I guess no one was ready to take on the job and risk the wrath of the famous money spinning author. I don't like the way we are subjected to continuing politically correct references to a persons sex or color. Seems to me that mentioning a "Black" General is about as rascist as coming straight out and saying "Look at us, how liberal and color blind we are for having blacks in our army." Why mention it at all. Anybody watching TV news can see all kinds of different PEOPLE doing all kinds of different jobs without regard to sex or color. I can't get away from the impression that this book was put together from a jumble of ideas and facts from research people who then called in the author to put it together. Lots of ideas and lots of research and not well connected. Mountain Men?
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Summary: Breathtaking, a dose of the grim reality...
Review: "Executive Orders" was the first Tom Clancy-book I read, and it encouraged me to take on his other brilliant novels. The novel is incredibly powerful. It gives you a dose of the grim reality, the reality inside the corridors of power. Tom Clancy is without doubt the man with the inside knowledge...
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Summary: Simply Remakable
Review: Never in my short life have I planned my day around a single book. Well folks, that's what happened for the month it took to read Executive Orders. I've read a lot of the reviews and I can see that I am in the minority of people who actually liked the length of the book. I never wanted it to end. I found it the easiest of all the Clacy books to read as their was less techno bs and more human intrigue. The sub plots ended up tying nicely at the end (except for the mountain men part) couldn't figure that one out. Clancy of course couldn't leave out his political ideology, but that was okay, we call these books fiction anyways right?. I think we can allow him some room for personal gratification. It is his book. After all is said and done, I just have to say the story was simply great. Not a boring moment and very real like. No matter how far fetched the scenarios might seem, these could be future possibilities, just look at the world around you now.
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