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Summary: Clancy Uses "Executive Orders" As Soapbox
Review: You knew that it had to happen sometime. You wait two years for your one of favorite authors to come out with a new book. You read in the paper that the hardcover has hit the stores. You race to the store to get it, race home to read it, stay up nights pounding through it.
And end up disappointed and disillusioned, because one of your favorite authors is no longer favored.
Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders" is a thick soapbox on which Clancy stands and preaches his views on nationalism, heroism and what's wrong with American politics. This once-mighty author has turned into the Stephen King of the techno-military novel, where bigger is better, books are written with one eye on the typewriter and one eye on the movie screen.
Simply put, Clancy has lost touch with that which made him great.
Clancy's fame has allowed him access to the inner workings of our government, so much so that he seems to feel that he can comment on government and politics to the same degree as a Jeff Greenfield or a George Will. He can't. Clancy should remember one thing: he's a techno-military author, and he should stick with it.
I'll admit, I share some of Clancy's views about government and its mechanisms. About politicians so obviously out of touch with their real mission that they seem to have forgotten why they are there.
But if Clancy wants to stand in front of us and tell us how messed up Washington is, he should have done so by writing "Executive Orders" as a work of non-fiction.
Instead, he's added 400 or so pages of material that has nothing to do with the plot -- although his writing is as sharp as ever -- and has taken Jack Ryan from a literary hero to an unbelievable figure.
Clancy has some well-defined views for reshaping government; he should step up to the plate and write some solid non-fiction instead of hiding behind Jack Ryan and using him to speak for Clancy.
Let's hope that Clancy returns to the form of "Without Remorse" the next time out. His foray into the dreadful "Op-Center" series, coupled with "Executive Orders," has left this reviewer with the feeling that Clancy is more impressed with the number of books sold and the size of his royalty checks than with creating taut fiction.
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Summary: Easily the most riveting novel about the Presidency written.
Review: Fans of Tom Clancy who love his technically perfect writing will find this to be one of his best; timely in the release in an election year, for anyone who's ever wanted a Non-Politician in the White House, here's your chance
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Summary: A good read, but often lost chances to be great
Review: There have been many reviews of the length and the need for a good, stern, tough editor. I was disappointed in the plot lines that were introduced but not followed up on.
I was looking forward to the followup on the hints that the marines guarding the Ryan family early on were overkill and smacked of a military takeover of government. Dispite several hints of this subplot including the Helo delivering Doc Ryan to work were not resolved.
Promosing plots like this and the mad bomber woodsmen were left to die a weak death. Length is not bad in itself, but lets keep in mind the stories that are started.
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Summary: Greatest Clancy Book of All!!!!!!!!
Review: No one writes a book like Clancy. I spent many sleepless nights flying through the pages to discover what happened next. The attack on the daycare center caused me to scream, "Kill'em, kill'em!" The book could have been 8,000 pages and I still would have savored every page. My only question now is,"When is the next Ryan book coming out?"
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Tom Clancy continues to deliver the highest quality of written material
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Summary: The book's size is eclipsed only by the ego of its author,
Review: who continues to believe that thickness equates with quality and that his text is unworthy of an editor's pen. Obviously written with movie rights in mind, this $28 doorstop takes its readers through the usual twists, turns and returns, stopping briefly to introduce characters of every conceivable stereotype, all the while creating a story line just barely within the realm of believability, even for Clancy. Pedestrian dialogue (unless there are acronyms in the sentence) and a weak ending make this one of his more disappointing works. Moreso than with his others, however, you can literally skip entire pages and not miss a beat
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Summary: Clancy doesn't disappoint his fans
Review: In Debt of Honor we are left hanging with the country recovering from a 'war' with Japan, most of the triad of Government dead and Jack Ryan is President of the United States. Tom Clancy continues the heroic saga of President Ryan as he brings a leaderless country back from disaster. We get a glimpse of the life of the Commander in Chief in his self described prison. It is through the thoughts of Ryan we can extrapolate and emphasize with the great burden the job contains.
This is a must read for new and old Clancy fans with continuations of many of the story lines start as far back as Without Remorse. The only criticism of the book is in the last 100 pages. Clancy turns to too much of the mechanics of warfare from the compelling human portraits he paints. Many pages of small print will keep you up well into the night
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Summary: As bad as this book is I can't put it down
Review: What I like best about Clancy's writing is that he has three
characters that switch names throughout the book: Good guys
who are hard as nails and respect and love all the other good guys they come in contact with; Bad guys who are as hard as nails and have the luck of God (or just one imaginative writer)
on their side as they plot to destroy the world; and lastly, in between guys who are usually spineless cowards. The plot
of this book is outrageous and strung together with bubble gum shoe strings, and most of it relies on ridiculous coincidences.
However, if you can manage to swallow all that, Clancy somehow manages to lash the reader into a seat and not let them go.
His actions scenes still move so fast you feel like someone is pushing you along, and of course, everybody loves Jack Ryan. Granted, the dialogue
is mind-mumbingly awful (if one more person ended a sentence with "okay?"
as in "I know what I'm doing, okay?" "I've been there, okay?" "This is the only way my author/god can give me inflection, okay?" I would
have ripped my all my hair out) and the prose is so unnoticeable that I often found myself day-dreaming through entire chapters, but it's got a great premise, and Clancy does his best to exploit its full potential.
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Summary: Pretty tedious.
Review: I'm a big fan of Tom Clancy, but I think that his last few books aren't nearly as good as his first few. Not much happens, it takes hundreds of pages to get into the book. Sound's like it's time to retire Jack Ryan and start with some fresh plots. Forget the terrorist stuff and get back to nation vs nation
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Summary: Needs a good editor to cut in half
Review: I'm at page 450 and very little has happened. Too much preaching
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