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Summary: OK, but a little overdone.
Review: I have read most of Clancy's works and have found this to be quite enjoyable, if a little overdone. Ryan is larger than life and has become almost invicible. However, the story moves and entertains as a good "light read" should.
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Summary: Clancy's the heavyweight champ!
Review: At 1357 pages, Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders" DOES take a while read. It's worth every page. 'Nuff said. Maybe Jack Ryan can take on the paparazzi as the bad guys in the next book? How about it Tom?
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Summary: Thank you Tom for giving me so much free time
Review: This book was so bad that I will no longer feel obliged to continue reading the Jack Ryan series. The book was poorly edited, with plot lines that never came to completion. I still could have enjoyed the book however, if Clancy had not chosen to turn it into a forum to spue his political ideologies. Jack Ryan has become a superhero of mythic preportions, that does nothing but spout conservative retoric.
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Summary: Executive Orders
Review: This is a great (and long) book. Read it; you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: An above-average (not great) story needing lots of editing
Review: I remain a Clancy fan...although it is getting harder to make that claim. EO should have been edited down by a third, with some story lines eliminated. Clancy's growing need to inject his political leanings into his writing is distracting...even when you agree with him.
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Summary: "Another Marine reporting sir, I've served my time in Hell."
Review: Despite the admonition from my fellow reviewer, I hated this book, and I'm not a flaming liberal. Or a flaming anything, pal. In fact, like Jack Ryan, I too am a former Marine, and, up until "The Sum Of all Fears", was a satisfied reader of Mr. Clancy's work. But for the last few years, Clancy has been infected with King's Syndrome - the love of one's own words. "Executive Orders" is in desperate need of editing. Plot lines remain unresolved, or go nowhere. There is a Dickensian love of many characters, but unlike the great Dickens, Clancy's cast consists of cardboard cutouts of people, lacking in substance. And what is with all the names and acronyms for his characters? Ryan goes by the following monikers throughout the book: SWORDSMAN, Doctor Ryan, Jack, and my favorite - POTUS (President Of The United States). Then there's SecState, SecDef. SecTres. SecThis! Another annoyance is Clancy's use of the colloquilisms of "doc" and "cop" throughout. Pardon me, but has ANYONE ever heard a doctor refer to a colleague as "doc"? Ever? I hope that Clancy does not insist on publishing a sequel to this book. If so, I think that the two works could be considered by the judiciary as a means of alternate sentencing. Two years probation or read "Executive Orders" and its sequel. Having read "EO", like my brother Marine in the famous poem, I've served my time in hell.
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Summary: The world according to Clancy
Review: Many reviewers have commented on the fact that Clancy is using Jack Ryan as his voice to put forth his own view of America. The evil press, the ugly politions, trying to do good only gets you screwed, ... You get the picture. What I'm suprised at is that his misogynic tendencies don't get more press.
In this book, the Indian Prime Minister is a manipulative schemer. The women secret service agents guarding the president's children turn out to be little more than clay pigeons and even the woman head of the president's protection detail does little more than marry one of the male heros of this book. This carries on a trend he established in his earlier books (was it in "Sum of All Fears" that Ryan's female White House antagonist totally crumbled under pressure?) and does little to flatter Mr. Clancy.
Recently, we've been seeing to much Clancy and not enough entertaining fiction in his books. Perhaps he's got writer's block or maybe it's just that he's on autopilot but his last 3 or 4 novels have been major dissappointments. If you've never read Clancy, read "Hunt for Red October" and see what he's really capable of. If you read this clunker, you may never be persuaded to read his good books.
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Summary: long - scanned huge portions. Nothing lost/missed
Review: Reached a point when I was "Clan Cave Bear" out. Couldn't touch Auel again. Ditto Clancy. Too much detail. We really don't need the scientific data. Difficult to keep track of the thready skeins stretching throughout the novel. Of the seemingly thousands of pages, scanned several hundred and don't feel I missed a thing. Jack Ryan and Cathy will always come out of top - it's a shame however, they have to climb over such an enormous dung hill to reach safety. God bless us all, everyone.
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Summary: An above average Clancy book but too much unresolved
Review: Executive Orders starts out like most Clancy books but then bogs down for a few chapters. Better editing would have made it move better. Excellent technical descriptions, as usual. The book does present an interesting scenario with most of the federal leadership dead and how will Ryan re-invent the government as a political kitten in with the remaining big dogs. The mountain men plot line was totally useless as was the resolution of the former VP resignation. Clancy takes some good shots at the Washington bureacacy, fat-cats, and the press
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Summary: Clancy has become victim of his own success
Review: Clancy has become such a cash cow for his publisher that it appears the publisher no longer even bothers to examine his manuscripts. It's as though Clancy sends all twenty pounds of it over to the publisher with a note attached and something to the effect, "I want this on the stands in six months. Don't call me. Just do it." This book should have been edited down at least 400 pages. The publisher is more to blame than Clancy. After all, an author who's settled for 900 pages likely thinks 1200 would have been more appropriate. Clancy's not alone here. Recent efforts by Stephen King, who probably sent his publisher the same note, and John Grisham also screamed out for responsible editing on the part of the publisher. Mr. Clancy and the publisher need to remember that just because we liked 'The Hunt forRed October' doesn't mean we'll continue buying Clancy books that short us on originality, craft and story telling
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