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Tom Clancy's Net Force: #1

Tom Clancy's Net Force: #1

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad experience
Review: I've read the Spanish translation.

This book is very poor, elemental. There is no emotion, no thriller. Some argumental threads become suddently dead. I've not got any pleasure reading this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: BOMB (literally)
Review: This was my first Tom Clancy book. It really got me hooked.
I guess a lot of people read some of his better books and then frowned upon this one. If you read this first then his other books are a pleasant surprise. It gets confusing a couple times but it is still awesome!!!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: #1 Book in America
Review: Net Force by Tom Clancy is a fantastic and interesting novel. I loved it because its supposedly based in the year 2010 a time when computers are the superpowers of the world. Gee that sounds like fiction! It made me wonder is Congress going to create a special computer security agency within the FBI anytime soon we need someone to enforce the Net Laws. This book got me to read again, before I thought that I would never find a book that could give me the pleasure of adventure but then a friend gave me Net Force and I fell in love with it. It reminded me of how fun reading can be who wouldn't call a book dealing with computers causing famine, chaos and death awesome and cyber terrorists crashing mainframes across the world. "Who ever controls computers controll the world" that has been true for the last 3 decades and computers are only getting started. So if your the type of person who loves books about Government agancies, cyber terrorists, sabotage, assasinations, famine, chaos, and death then Net Force is the book for you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book is great!
Review: Tom Clancey is a master of putting suspense, reality, action, futuristic worlds, and thrill all into one novel. The book gets of to pretty quick start, set in the year 2010, when a middle eastern assassin kills the director of the Net Force, FBI's new system for crimefighting. This killing causes Alex Michaels, the new director of the Net Force, to track down the assassin who had killed the director. On his way to seeking out the assassin he finds that he, himself will soon be

the next target. And while all this is going on there are Internet terrorist and hackers who's intent is to destroy and create chaos throughout the system. This is the kind of book that will make you not want to put it down and will have you asking for more.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Clancy's Descent Into Formulaic Novels Accelerates
Review: On the whole, this novel may be one of the worst mass market novels ever published. Wasting a decent if predictable premise, Clancy - or whoever it was who actually wrote this - has concocted one of the most poorly written works produced in some time. Full of the worst kind of schlock cliches, it is disappointing in nearly every respect. To add insult to injury, the attempts to authenticate the technical aspects of the book include ridiculously stylized language and a nearly incomprehensible VR environment.

For a fan of some of his earlier works, this novel is a significant disappointment, and not worth your time.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: High Schooler
Review: Tom Clancey's Net Force is a breathlessly exciting novel. Undoubtedly Clancey's best that I have read. Starting strong then it built me up to a shocking climax. I couldn't belive it this is a really good book. In the ending, when the Cyber-Terrorists betrayed each other; that was great. I never saw it coming. If you like sci-fi suspence then I reconmend this book to you. It's really good.I give it FOUR STARS

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A blood Thirsty novel with techno window dressing
Review: I just finished two Tom Clancy "thrillers" ... " Op Center" and " Net Force" were actually the worst I had ever read by him. He used to write a "crafted" novel that was well researched and had suspense. At least he hasn't stooped to using sex! Op Center is slow and plodding and actually pretty dull for a bloody thriller. Net Force has all too much blood and gore to be actually about the web! The techno window dressing was put in to "sell, sell, sell". He has become a "product" and his books are no longer literature, but formulas for the best seller list?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 4 dangerous assassins foiled
Review: Unlike most of Tom Clancy's work, Net Force is set far enough in the future to be considered Science Fiction. It is set roughly 10 years in the future and features an interesting vision of the internet as a backdrop. Otherwise it is a typical Clancy thriller.

Net Force begins with the assassination of the Director of Net Force, an assassination that leads to the appointment of the protagonist to the directorship. Our hero must figure out who murdered his predecessor, determine what is causing problems on the Net, keep his political masters at bay, manage his professional life and balance his personal life in the process. Perhaps the hardest part for him will be to stay alive so that he can succeed in these endeavours. In true Clancy fashion Net Force features assassins, martial arts experts, strike forces and nail-biting tension leading to a thrilling climax. It was a thoroughly enjoyable guilty pleasure. I especially enjoyed the vision of the Net as an electronic highway being navigated by virtual automobiles.

The novel is not without some problems. For instance, it features a female martial arts master who easily thumps a man with a 2nd degree black belt in karate. I had several problems with the scene. First, the martial art is either obscure or fictitious. Given the power that the young lady demonstrates, I doubt that such an art could remain obscure in this day and age. Second, even though the karate guy has a black belt, he acts like a complete ass with his art. That's possible but then he is portrayed as a nice guy afterwards. The characterization is inconsistent. Third, the karate man is subsequently portrayed as a fast learner. Why did he get beaten so easily? Fourth, let's face it, a big man is going to be able to beat someone much smaller than he is unless there is a tremendous disparity in skill level. It just doesn't make sense that someone with that level of karate training could be pummeled so easily. Clancy set the confrontation up to make the story work and it doesn't ring true. However, the willing suspension of disbelief is possible for most of the story. This scene was a minor annoyance overall.

Net Force is an exciting thriller without any serious themes that get in the way of the action. Don't take it too seriously but enjoy the ride.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Its Alright
Review: This book "Net Force" is such a good book that it has actually gotten me to read more things like magazines, more books(yeah right), and it has also taught me how to start off a story bye getting the person/reader hooked on the story i am writing. My favorit part of this book would definitly have to be the beggining. The whole assansination of the head of Net Force, a police agency that is pretty much all compupter technology and stuff,because some Russians are trying to take over Net Force. But the whole assansination is ver detailed and good. Its got talk about things like cars and weapons and even weman. This book is great, an all Action book and i love it, expecialy the part with the woeman. I suggest that you buy and read this book now.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Net Force
Review: Not a good book at all. Net force has a good intro, very descriptive and detailed, but once you get to the body of story or even a little past the intro, the confusion begins. This book is written very well but Clancy's style of writing sort of threw my of every time I sat down to read Net Force. What I didn't like about this book was that Clancy used too many characters which cause the reader to become confused. He also used names that were very difficult to remember, most the of the time I was having trouble remembering which character was which. I didn't like the fact that he didn't have a main character or a set of main characters anywhere in his story. This book was very confusing to read because of how he chose to write a bit about a character and then skipped to another. I enjoyed the book because of the fact that he did make it very realistic and because he drew all his scenes extremely well with his choice of words. I would not like to read something like this again. Compared to other books I have read I think this was one of the worst. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone unless they were a big Clancy fan and enjoyed his books.


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