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Summary: This is only the beggining to Brown's excellent books.
Review: From high tech fighter-bombers to leathal killer lasers, Dale Brown knows how to latch on to your attention and never let go! It has something for everyone. This is only the beggining of a series of linked books, and they keep getting better.
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Summary: Great work, this is a book I want to see in theaters.
Review: I have read this book a number of times, Dale Brown's technical know-how and imagination kept me on the edge. I was actually sorry that I had finished it. I recommend it to anyone. The characters, the scenarios, the timing, is all spot on. I will keep reading his books as long as he keeps writing them.
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Summary: Keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Review: I lost a lot of sleep on "Flight of the Old Dog", I couldn't put it down. After reading it I was hooked on Dale Brown as an author.
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Summary: Once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down.
Review: I read this novel as a Junior in High School at Harlingen's Marine Military Academy. It took me about seven hours (it would have taken less but I had to go to chow). I stayed up after "lights out" with a flashlight and hid under my blanket until I finished it. This is an incredibly engrossing story. The characters are interesting and identifiable (you truly find yourself caring about them), the narration is first rate (you'll actually feel as if you're in the old B-52), and the pace is breathless. It's still hard to believe this is Brown's first novel. Perhaps it is beginner luck that makes it so good. If you haven't read this one yet, please do. ("Day of the Cheetah" isn't bad either, by the way.) Guaranteed to be worth every nickel spent buying it and every second of lost sleep spent reading it!
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Summary: Once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down.
Review: I read this novel as a Junior in High School at Harlingen's Marine Military Academy. It took me about seven hours (it would have taken less but I had to go to chow). I stayed up after "lights out" with a flashlight and hid under my blanket until I finished it. This is an incredibly engrossing story. The characters are interesting and identifiable (you truly find yourself caring about them), the narration is first rate (you'll actually feel as if you're in the old B-52), and the pace is breathless. It's still hard to believe this is Brown's first novel. Perhaps it is beginner luck that makes it so good. If you haven't read this one yet, please do. ("Day of the Cheetah" isn't bad either, by the way.) Guaranteed to be worth every nickel spent buying it and every second of lost sleep spent reading it!
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Summary: Desperation fueled this read, don't let it happen to you..!
Review: I was in a rut, hadn't read anything light in awhile. I mean, after you read "Gravity's Rainbow" and "The Enormous Room", a 300+ page diversion is almost welcome. I browsed, read a few page blurbs, and settled on an author I hadn't seen before, Dale Brown. I knew there was a reason I didn't trust the NY Times. Bad book reviews. This book is essentially a 12 year-old military schoolkid's fantasy: going off to wage war against the bad guys singlehandedly. It's actually a better book in 2004 than in 1987, since I can amuse myself with how ironic some of the premises are today: the Soviets building a ground-based laser to shoot down planes, missles, satellites, and probably sparrows. The editors must've drawn the line at sparrows, but they left in the hot woman tech who wants to be treated as an equal, the gruff superior officer who's really a good guy, and a handful of other assorted types that every techothriller needed back then. Character development? Ah, that's a negative. Lots of technology and insider jargon to make it realistic? Check. Lots of political insight, some plot twists? Ah, that's a negative. I mean, he named the enemy pilot "Yuri". I guess the editors crosshatched "Ivan". Yes, I picked up "crosshatched" from this book, so it got a second-star for augmenting my lexicon of useless jargon. And yet, I raced through the book. I didn't want to read it, but I had to finish it because I've only refused to finish two books in my life (and I couldn't recall them if you held me at gunpoint). I got through it, but now I'll never get that time back. I'm a little bitter about it, but I'll get past it. The point here, and let's not lose sight of this point while I still have it, is that this book should not be purchased by people unless they absolutely *must* divert themselves for a few hours. If you read it at the library, I suppose that's all right. If you borrow it from a friend and don't return it, you're probably doing that friend a big favor. Actually, I think that's it: someone borrow this book from me, and don't give it back. Fred
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Summary: Desperation fueled this read, don't let it happen to you..!
Review: I was in a rut, hadn't read anything light in awhile. I mean, after you read "Gravity's Rainbow" and "The Enormous Room", a 300+ page diversion is almost welcome. I browsed, read a few page blurbs, and settled on an author I hadn't seen before, Dale Brown. I knew there was a reason I didn't trust the NY Times. Bad book reviews. This book is essentially a 12 year-old military schoolkid's fantasy: going off to wage war against the bad guys singlehandedly. It's actually a better book in 2004 than in 1987, since I can amuse myself with how ironic some of the premises are today: the Soviets building a ground-based laser to shoot down planes, missles, satellites, and probably sparrows. The editors must've drawn the line at sparrows, but they left in the hot woman tech who wants to be treated as an equal, the gruff superior officer who's really a good guy, and a handful of other assorted types that every techothriller needed back then. Character development? Ah, that's a negative. Lots of technology and insider jargon to make it realistic? Check. Lots of political insight, some plot twists? Ah, that's a negative. I mean, he named the enemy pilot "Yuri". I guess the editors crosshatched "Ivan". Yes, I picked up "crosshatched" from this book, so it got a second-star for augmenting my lexicon of useless jargon. And yet, I raced through the book. I didn't want to read it, but I had to finish it because I've only refused to finish two books in my life (and I couldn't recall them if you held me at gunpoint). I got through it, but now I'll never get that time back. I'm a little bitter about it, but I'll get past it. The point here, and let's not lose sight of this point while I still have it, is that this book should not be purchased by people unless they absolutely *must* divert themselves for a few hours. If you read it at the library, I suppose that's all right. If you borrow it from a friend and don't return it, you're probably doing that friend a big favor. Actually, I think that's it: someone borrow this book from me, and don't give it back. Fred
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Summary: An all-time great
Review: If there is a series of books out there that will make you feel like you are actually in it, then its the Flight of The Old Dog series. This debuet book for Dale Brown is by far the greatest story I've ever read. It will keep on the edge of your seat the whole time. not one slow section in the book. In the wake of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, it makes me wonder what the Old Dog crew would do. If the were real of course!
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Summary: Truly one of the best of it's kind!
Review: There is nothing like picking up a book where you have literally have no idea how it's going to turn out and FOTOD is that kind of book. Back when I first read it years ago, I was simply amazed of Brown's command of literary fictional prose combined with technial jargon, ala Mr. Clancy, but more toward the technical side. Also, I wish that HBO would have made an adaptation of this novel instead of "...By Dawn's Early Light", which was an excellent movie in the vein of FOTOD. Simply put, the best first novel I've read since The Hunt for Red October.
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Summary: Great read
Review: This book both entertains and educates as it follows a "possible" scenerio, but brings the reader inside a high tech world of military aircraft. It could only be written by a man that knows.
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