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Summary: Old Clancy is Back
Review: I used to be one of those fans who bought his books the day they came out. Ever since Rainbow Six, he kind of lost me there for a while. When I heard about this book, I went out and got it the first day. It was a good decision on my part. This book has brought me back into the fold. In typiclal Clancy style, he spends the first couple of hundred pages setting up the characters then hits you with nonstop action.
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Summary: A new generation
Review: Really 3 1/2 stars. Tom Clancy's latest installment in the Jack Ryan series introduces us to new characters including a grown up Jack Ryan Jr. Junior joins his cousins in fighting the war on terrorism as part of Hendley Associates, or "The Campus", an officially sanctioned, but self-funding group. Jack Jr. follows in his father's footsteps and tests his abilities as a fledgling analyst. "The Campus" (which was set up with the approval of President Jack Ryan) is free from oversight, and not hampered by typical government bureaucracy, which allows it the needed flexibility and responsiveness to combat terrorism by taking the war to the terrorists personally. His cousins are a bigger part of "The Teeth of the Tiger", but Junior also gets into the act. One bonus is that this is a much quicker read than most of Clancy's Jack Ryan books because for once, the plot isn't slowed by unnecessary technical details which have bogged down some of his earlier stories. "The Campus" is an interesting concept for dealing with the current reality.
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Summary: Tom is Back!!!!
Review: After a large miss with "Red Rabbit" Tom Clancy is back and as good as ever. This is old time Clancy - great plot, wonderful characters, and superb writing. You can not put this book down! It is truly one of Tom's very best - just wish it were a bit longer.
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Summary: Not his best (or even close)
Review: Let me start by saying that I was introduced to Tom Clancy when no one knew his name and he was doing anything to sell his books. That anything included a apperance at a small bookstore in New London, CT called the Book Smith. Less than three miles from the Navy Submarine Base, Clancy made himself a legion of fans when he appeared and signed his first book The Hunt for Red October. I was among those first fans and have to varying degrees loved all of his books. Yet it appears to me that Tom Clancy is getting a bit lazy with his writting. Possibly feeling as if he took the character of Jack Ryan Sr as far as he could go (when last seen in The Bear and The Dragon, Jack Sr had been elected President in his own right), Clancy has shifted focus to Jack Ryan Jr and two of his cousins (one a Marine Major and the other a rookie FBI Agent). The problem with this, is that in a continuing series, Clancy has skipped the events as well as the years (when last seen Jack Ryan Jr was about 15 years old now he is 23) that lead to his present novel. In the short and none to informative explination of what happened (and why) to Jack Sr, as well as several major characters from previous books, Clancy has left me wondering why he did not write a "wrap up book" to the stories of Jack Sr. In the sparse details given about Jack Sr and others, it seems like there would have been ample material to write about. Rather, it appears that Clancy jumped into another series in an effort to develop new characters, which in my eyes he failed to do. Teeth of the Tiger is his shortest book since Red October and the readers are short changed by Clancy's inability to develop the story in the 431 pages of the novel. Although I was not impressed with this effort, like everyone else I will buy his next book to see what happens next, I just hope Clancy delivers.
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Summary: I'm a bit confused...
Review: From what I'd read about this book, I believed it to be the final Ryanverse novel. I just (about a minute ago) finished it, and I find myself wondering what comes next for Jack Jr. and company? Surely there will be a sequel, which means this ISN'T the last Ryanverse novel after all. Or, perhaps it is in the sense that Ryanverse novels deal with Jack Ryan Sr., and the follow-on stories to TotT will deal strictly with Jack Jr. Anyway, I enjoyed the book - it was better than the last two true Ryanverse novels (The Bear and the Dragon and Red Rabbit). Not the best Clancy's ever written, but a step in the right direction, I felt, although I'm left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth wanting MORE... and wondering if this really this THE END? Thus, 4 stars instead of 5.
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Summary: A great book
Review: This book was wonderfull. I read the book in 3 days. It is Tom Clancy at his best. I am looking forward to more with Jack Ryan Jr.
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Summary: Be prepared for a sudden ending
Review: When I bought this book, I was surprised by how short it is compared to Clancy's other books in the Ryan series. Now that I have finished the book, I know it has to be installment one of several volumes along these lines - next book "Brain of the Tiger." I liked the lead-in to the terrorist event along with the training of Jack Ryan Jr. and his cousins, but then Clancy did not complete the story. It's a letdown. I thought it was another Jack Ryan book, but it deals only cursorily with what has happened to the cast of characters since Big Jack was POTUS. Now the reader is confronted with Little Jack, whose every other word is "Dad," but who doesn't have a conversation with Dad or anyone else in his immediate family during the entire book. He hasn't even told his family that he has a job upon graduation from Georgetown. It just doesn't ring true, like all of the other character development. Also, it is annoying that the cousins, Dominic and Brian, are referred to as Enzo and Aldo half the time. The story is interesting to a point, but it doesn't go anywhere. There's no resolution.
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Summary: where's the old Tom Clancy?
Review: I'm a big Tom Clancy fan but have been VERY disappointed in his last couple of books. I thought I'd give him another try with this book since it said "a new generation takes over" and my biggest problem with his more recent books is the characters' stories had already been told. I'm about halfway through this book and still forcing myself along. Frankly, I don't find Jack Ryan, Jr. particularly interesting and I feel like "I'll keep reading and maybe finally something will happen." I'm sad to say that there will be no more Tom Clancy purchases by me.
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Summary: Great book, great build up, no delivery
Review: This is a very well written book; it's interesting to see how big an impact 9/11 has in the Jack Ryan world, considering that in his world, far worse things have happened. The story follows Jack Ryan's son (I believe he was codenamed shortstop in the original books) and his 2 cousins' (fraternal twins, or identical depending on what part of the book you are in). The book is 431 pages and is exciting for the first 300, but the last 131 don't deliver as you would expect, and is more of a setup for a follow up book. Most other Jack Ryan books end with a bang, and a lot of loose pieces are tied up. This book truly ends on page 300 once the group is on their mission, then it just repeats itself while the other 3 targets are chased and eventually eliminated. There are quite a few spelling mistakes throughout the book, which lowers the readability. If you loved the original Jack Ryan books, then this one is a must read, just don't expect the same level or quality climax you've come to accept.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: As an avid Clancy fan, I always look forward to the next book, and this time was no different. I bought the book the day it came out. Teeth of the Tiger surprises you right away, because of the lack of heft that the usual Clancy book has. It seemed like something he just slapped together instead of the usual 15 subplots that get tied together perfectly at the end. Being the fan I am, I'll have to give him a pass on this one, and hope he snaps out of it for the next book.
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