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Summary: Hannibal ad Portem
Review: Perhaps the fact that summer's lease has run its course and there is no beach demand has brought about this mechanical monster. Maybe the elephantine thudding of Red Rabbit is in the author's mind. Certainly the limits of plausibility are reached as this meanwhile back at the spy shop piece proceeds. Students of the novel will recognize an intrusive narrative voice as soporific as Fielding's. Mr. Clancy atempts to deal with the moral/ethical potential of free enterprise engaging in pragmatic, extra-legal terminations with extreme prejudice by means of the conversations of two talkey twins, an Marine and a FBI. Cousin Jack Ryan, recent Georgetown graduate, gets thrown in as a sort of lignappe and perhaps rationale for the annoying habit of Latin zingers showing up now and then. One wonders, do the Jebbies still instruct their wards in Latin at Georgetown? Ah well, the magister will still lay down his text. And like such school marms, he gets on a tear; this week's virtue is "Patience." How many times can a discussion of the difficulty of acquiring, employing and appreciating said virtue reappear in one book. I lost count, you will too if you do not put it down. At times impatience, too, is a virtue.
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Summary: read his earlier work, avoid this one
Review: I've recently finished "Teeth of the Tiger", "Red Rabbit" and "The Sum of All Fears", having already read virtually everything else he's ever written (yeah, it took awhile to get to Sum of All Fears). Somewhere between Debt of Honor and Rainbow Six, the quality of his books takes a huge dive in terms of plot and character development. Unfortunately, Teeth of the Tiger doesn't buck the trend. Don't judge Clancy by this book; he's a much better writer than this.
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Summary: "Jumping the Shark" or "Selling Out"
Review: I like Tom Clancy. I've read every book he's written. But this book appears to have been "phoned in." This novel reads like the simplistic garbage we've been getting from Patrick Robinson. No matter how evil our opponents are, if we stoop to their level, we've lost. I just don't find the characters admirable or the plot line credible. Maybe Tom should go back to writing about military men who live by a code.His works over the last few years have severely deteriorated. "Red Rabbit" was a hollow homage to "Cardinal of the Kremlin." The film "Sum of All Fears" was a politically correct sell-out of the novel. The "Op Center" books are terrible. I hope he takes this to heart and gets back on track in his next effort.
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Summary: Clancy has finally 'jumped the shark' [sigh]
Review: In case it isn't obvious from the preceding 482 reviews, this book is a disaster, and not even worth reading if someone gives it to you for free. When Clancy first burst onto the scene with Red October, he was an unbelievable breath of fresh air, excellent writing, believable plots and characters, and nail-biting suspense. The fact that he managed to continue his run through several more books is a testament to his skill as a writer. Unfortunately, after getting Jack into the White House, Clancy began to lose steam, with Red Rabbit being an extraordinary disappointment to his fans. With Teeth of the Tiger, however, our favorite novelist has really hit rock bottom (well, actually the real rock bottom was his simply excreble "collaborations" on OpForce where he sold his name, but I'm talking here about his own writing.) There is a saying that when a television show "jumps the shark" it has turned the corner and is headed for oblivion, and that may well be the case here. Tiger is a simply miserable book, with zero plotting, completely implausible scenarios, ridiculous characters who are both boring and poorly written, no suspense...in fact, there isn't a single decent thing one could write about this book! Despite all of the above (as if they weren't enough) what saddened me most of all was the way Clancy wrote the characters of the twin brothers. Come on! How many successful attorneys-turned-FBI-agents go around speaking like troglodytes who couldn't get a high-school diploma?? These days, it seems that whenever Clancy puts dialogue in the mouths of "young people", all he can come up with stuff like "hey, Bro, whatcha doing?" or things of that ilk. And Jack comes across as obnoxious, impatient and not-very-bright...certainly not someone whom you would cheer on. Ah well...Tom's series was great when it lasted, and we all owe him a big vote of thanks for single-handedly reinvigorating the thriller genre. But, sad to say, I think I've read my last Clancy original for a while. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Summary: Clancy Needs An Editor
Review: The Teeth of the Tiger is vintage Tom Clancy. But it's an older, apparently less committed (more distracted?) Clancy than we have known in the past.
This brief work becomes a full-length novel only by surrendering to pages of filler: preachings, reflections, internal dialogues. I found myself bored and distracted by these ramblings and quickly learned to leap over them to get to the real meat of the story. Sadly, this made for an even shorter read...all the more disappointing for any die-hard Tom Clancy fan.
The most striking and disappointing aspect of Tiger is the lack of good editing. Internal "facts" do not jive: at one point the terrorists are headed to Sacramento to do their dirty work. Next we hear they've ended up in Utah, with no explanations. First there are 16 terrorists, then an initial group of three is to be sent in, then there are 14, then it's back to 16 again. On at least one occasion a character (Bell) just appears in a scene being played out by other characters. There are other moments in plot development that stretch credibility, such as the assasination of a Mosad agent by a professional just for the heck of it. Then there's the decision to send young Jack to work with his cousins in Europe, a rank amateur missioned to save two other rank amateurs from making the mistakes of rank amateurs. Please. This is the writing of a man in a hurry. I hope and pray that the Tom Clancy, wordsmith and great weaver of tales, will rejoin us in all his depth and power the next time one of his works goes to press.
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Summary: Childish and Moronic
Review: I've been a Clancy fan since book one and have purchased every one in hardcover. That will not continue. This wasn't even a good book for a 3rd rate novelist! Early Clancy novels are well thought out and you marvel at the thought and detail he put into creating believable, coplex storylines. Gone is the imagination, intrigue and suspense. The character choice of two nephews and a son of Jack Ryan pander shamelessly to readers who have developed a fondness for Ryan. That these three would come together to jointly assasinate terrorists and would be thrust into the field with no prior experience (other than standard FBI and Marine training) makes one long for the days when Clancy assumed his readers had brains. Give me a break! And a better book!
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Summary: Not bad
Review: But The Teeth Of The Tiger could of been better. What Clancy is trying to do is trying to come back from The Bear And The Dragon and Red Rabbit from how terrible they truly are.
He knows that Jack is getting old, and so he brings along Jack Jr. and his cousins Dominic and Brian. One thing: Brian and Dominic are boring charatchers, and Jack Jr. is boring himself!
Clancy tries to bring back Jack Jr. as the new generation of hero's, but what ever happen to Ding? Clancy should of brought back Ding and bring him to action instead of Brian and Dominic.
Well it is sad to see that Clancy is just writing for money now, and not just for the sake of his fans. Also Clancy, if u r reading this, read more novels instead of history books.
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Summary: Tom Clancy just lost another fan
Review: All I will say is that I will now check Tom Clancy books out of the local public library...........maybe. I was a Tom Clancy junkie and was extremely disappointed with Red Rabbit. I saw this book in the bookstore, saw Tom Clancy's name on the book, and saw the words "Jack Ryan" on the dust cover. After I got the book home, I found out that the book was about Jack Jr. I will not say anything more than that I am disappointed again and will NOT anxiously await any other book from Tom Clancy.
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Summary: Clancy's descent continues
Review: What a dreadful book. After "Red Rabbit" I thought it couldn't get any worse. I was wrong. One dimensional characters, plot holes you could drive a bus through, knee-jerk politics and terrible, terrible writing. Clancy should call it a day before his reputation as a craftsman of the novel is buried under such turgid nonsense as this.
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Summary: Not his best, but still entertaining.
Review: I've ready all of Clancy's books, with the exception of some of the Net Force titles, and have to say that this was somewhat of an improvement over the Red Rabbit fiasco of last year, but still not on the same level of the golden oldies like Sum of All Fears and (my favorite) Without Remorse. The techno-weaponry overload found in Rainbox Six and other later books seems to have been toned down a bit, and old favorite characters are largely referred to in the book so those that don't appear are not relegated to the 'where are they now' pile. Not a bad book, and certainly better than his previous outing. If I had not known it was Clancy, I would have suspected that this was a young novelists' first stab at being published, and that the book was enjoyable, but the writer needed more experience to polish the craft. Yes, he may have 'mailed this one in' but it was not too bad a read (although somewhat predictable, which is not Clancy-like.)
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