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Summary: Good book, but it is missing a certain something
Review: There is something missing from this book. I know that it is unfair to compare all of the Rogue Warrior books, but this one is missing that certain something that Mr. Weisman brought to the table. It is still a good book and I recommend it if you are a fan of the RW novels and especially if you have read all of the other novels. Keep writing them Cdr Marcinko! I'll keep reading them! Your novels are some of the best in military fiction. Please try to get Mr. Weisman back on helping you out though.
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Summary: For all those who thought this book wasn't Dicks best...
Review: This book was GREAT. He finally bucked off the b/s and got down to business. People are squeamish about the torture in the book and think it wasn't necessary. Hell, I think it made it more believeable. Dick didn't like it, but he had to do it. Just Like he preaches. I think most people wouldn't have had the courage to go against their principles and torture someone in that instance. Most of us would have let Portland get nuked. Period.I think leaving all the asides out was great. So was Dick having to go and "find" himself. NEWS FLASH!!! Demo Dick is HUMAN!!! Imagine that??? He got away from the psychobabble and got down to earth. He told us a story of what could be, instead of just entertaining us. I think the book was meant to be a shocking "What if?" If that happened, that is what Dick would do. What would you do??? Whine and snivel in the corner, or KATN? Thanks, Dick, for your continuous reminders that there are still Americans willing to FIGHT for this wonderful country we live in. No matter what the costs...
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Summary: Rated comparison to other Rogue Warrior books
Review: This book, written without Mr. Weisman, was superior to those written with him. Far more tailored and direct, it sounds as one would expect Marcinko to sound. There is none of the past attempts to soften his image, but rather a book more akin to the first autobiography that pulled few punches. The polish and plot weaving of a professional author isn't here, but if you are looking for that perhaps you should be reading King. I enjoyed the lack of it in exchange for a plot that was, as Marcinko would himself say, K.I.S.S but effective. I applaud the Commander's newest book, and hope that he will continue in this path. Being a strong woman myself, I also enjoyed the addition of the intense female team member. Men do not have the monopoly on 'violence of action'!
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Summary: violence of action
Review: This edition follows the character and his exploits/style well, but the plot is shaky (re: white supremacists), and he beats the 'navy screwed me' issue to death...the briefcase nuke object of story was a good choice, but when he mentions terrorists accessing/collecting medical rad sources, and scraping radium off clocks, (rather than, say, buying off russian scientists or shipping truckloads of rad sources from kazakhstan) I think he should beg weisman to come back, or hire andy mcnab
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Summary: a real bummer
Review: This was a disappointment. I thought there would be more. First, the book was short--much shorter than the others. Second, it skipped between first and third person, which is confusing and how would the rogue know what the bad guys were doing, anyway? Third, there was a lot of familiar material--and bunches of cliches. Fourth, the writing was lame. There was none of the usual subltety or self-mocking humor. I think its time for the good captain to retire as an "author."
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Summary: Very good solo effort
Review: Though I was disappointed to hear of the departure of Mr Weisman as a contributor to the series. Mr Marcinko has done a fine job of carrying it on and I eagerly awit his next solo effort. Having first discovering Mr Marcinko's writing when I was just a fifteen year old kid, and owning every single book in hardcover editions except for Red Cell(which I own in paperback) I have stuck with the series. This is for two reasons: 1. Marcinko writes like no other writer as he has been there, done that. Not just shot the guns, and driven the vehicles(like another techno thriller author who gloats about the relatively minimal amount of experience he has, but has been shot at, and has led others who have also been shot at. 2. He listens to the fans and knows when to change. I give the book 4 stars because even though a fine job was done, the writing style was sometimes cluttered snd confusing. All of the one star reviewers who claim to be fans of the Rogue: Bugger off will you. If you are true rogue fans follow the Roguetoid-CHANGE OR DIE!!
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Summary: Demo Dick meets Brittany [sic] Spears!
Review: Weisman isn't a co-author of this book so it has a different feel to it than all the other books in the Rogue Warrior series. This one is a bit more graphic in its descriptions: see Chapter 8 (the interrogation) to understand what I mean, but for true fans of the series, it'll be SSDD as compared previous books in the series and the extra gore will be welcome. Other minor differences are that the "Ten Commandments" and almost all of the characters of old are gone. This makes me wonder if Marcinko doesn't fully own the copyright on them which means that he couldn't use them. Oddly enough, the chapter intro quotes range from everyone from Napoleon to Sun Tzu to...Pink! Regardless of how its format diverges from previous books in the series, the story is a good: a stolen pocket nuke being used to terrorize Portland, President Bush and other White House staffers hang him out to dry, etc. However this time around, he's shooting and looting while on a presidential pardon which gives him carte blanche to do what he wants. Ah, finally! As other reviewers have remarked, the story length is a bit short, which is ironic considering the self-professed size of his, uhm, uh...you know. After ten novels, the series is starting to run out of steam, but it's still quite enjoyable. Now UNODIR, go and read this book!
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Summary: TIRESOME AND SILLY
Review: What this book proves is not what the Rogue Warrior announces near the beginning--"I will not bring a terrorist back alive"-- no, this book proves that the Rogue Warrior has become tiresome and silly. The constant filthy language, the neverending nonsense about the Rogue's own personal ten commandments, the always present, always identical, comments on pain and winning that meander through action scenes: It has all become boring. The Rogue himself has become a cartoonish character, sort of like a mean Elmer Fudd, getting hit with brick walls and run over by trains, but magically bouncing back up and repeating pretty much the same words over and over, except the Rogue's words are mostly curses.
There really isn't much in the way of plot in this short novel. There isn't even a hint of interesting dialogue. There's just the Rogue, who doesn't know it's time to retire and let someone else same the nation and write the books.
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Summary: Good, though not best
Review: While not my favorite book in the series, I did read it all in one day, finding it hard to put it down for more than five min. Basically he's off doing the same old things, enjoying it all, etc. In Option Delta, I found him talking about anyone who has personal relations with someone else in uniform was a nothing and worse, which doesn't explain the way he talks about his "co-workers" through out the novel. Parts I couldn't stand, other parts were great. Novel also took a new directions, which was nice. The tourture sequence was nasty, but I do get it and like one reviewer wrote, the life of one killer, or the lives of an entire city? Overall, if you like the others, get this one and give it a shot.
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Summary: Oh dear, Dickie!
Review: Yes, I know I'm Brit & female but oh dear! Will the real Richard Marcinko Please stand up? This book ignores everything RM preaches about being true to your convictions etc. Not only is much shorter, minus Mr Weisman but it's about as funny as root canal. Yes the previous 9 books were basically the same story, but what made them brilliant was the great characters/sidekicks and RM's wonderfully self-mocking humour that showed he was first to send himself up. This has NONE of either of them - it's po-faced, played straight and utterly dull. It gives the impression RM was under pressure from his publisher to churn out another Rogue Warrior book so he just cobbled together a patch job from previous manuscripts - assuming he wrote the thing at all, which I am suspicious about given the sudden & dramatic drop in quality (unless that quality actually came from Weisman). The 1st 9 are laugh out loud funny rollicking reads - this one is a waste of time. Let's hope with #11 he brings back Weisman, the sidekicks and the wit.
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