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Summary: Avid Reader
Review: Another winner from Tom Clancy. Just what you need for an end of summer read. Noboby writes like Clancy does and he remains the master of the post cold-war intelligence/political intrigue thriller. The combination of real and imagined characters and events coupled with plausible scenarios makes for fascinating reading.Buy it now and be prepared to be engrossed immediately.Enjoy.
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Summary: Look at it as modern "Juvenile Fiction"
Review: Return to the days of Tom Swift, Tom Slade, Rick Brant, the Hardy Boys and Ken Holt. Tom Clancy has started a modern series of Juvenile Fiction where consequences don't have to logically follow unless they are essential to the plot and coincidental occurences are not astonishing.
This is not a "Clancy" novel as we've come to expect but I don't think it was written to be. It's an enjoyable read both for the simplistic activity leading to a quick read and for prompting thoughts on how differently the actions would play out in real life.
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Summary: A bad fall
Review: This looks like the "OpCenter" novels -- short, dumb, and a far cry from previous Clancy's books. The plot is flimsy, the heroes (all family) do away with all enemies without any problems, and a bad guy is left over (a Bond-esque Blofeld) for further novels... I'm not certain whether I'll read the next novel.
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Summary: Teeth of the Mutt
Review: How disappointing. This book desperately needed an editor to throw it back at Clancy for a rewrite. It was, in many ways, stupid. Loaded with utterly unbelievable events. If the world of international espionage really functions like this, we are all in big trouble. I don't remember any previous Clancy books being this childish. Foolish dialogue, especially between the Caruso twins. I never got to like them because they talked like such idiots from start to finish. And those nicknames were utterly annoying. Jack Jr. is not much better. In fact, there isn't an intelligent person in this whole book, which tells me that it's actually the author who lacks intelligence. One glaring example: The rookie spook, Jack Jr., talks openly in public to the twins about top secret info he's learned on the job, naming names of someone who will be their first "target." I immediately assume that Jack will soon be in big trouble for his "loose lips." Nope. Clancy never deals with it at all, even though the twins tell their superior that Jack filled them in. (Oh, you told them about this super-classified info without authorization? No problem, kid.) What nonsense. And there were many other similar flaws. Like them ID'ing their target in Vienna by happening to remember seeing him in Munich. "We're not certain he's the guy, but we're pretty sure so let's just go ahead and kill him." Just stupid. And get this: The 20-something Caruso boys, when comparing Ferraris to women, refer to Grace Kelly and Maureen O'Hara. Grace Kelly and Maureen O'Hara ?! Is Clancy out of his mind? They were both dead before either of these kids were born. Maybe Clancy himself fantasizes about those gals, but it's ludicrous to think his young characters would ever say such a thing. Obviously his editor: A) is afraid to question anything Clancy writes, or B) never reads any of it, figuring if the name Clancy is on the cover, it will SELL, and that's all that matters.
Someone at the Penguin Group should lose their job for letting this dog get into print. A major let-down.
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Summary: Clancy slippage
Review: I have all of Clancy's books and have been a fan since his first, the genre classic "Hunt for Red October." He hit a peak with "The Bear and the Dragon," and his works since "Bear" have shown a slow decline in quality. "Teeth of the Tiger" is almost a caricature of a Clancy novel. His development of the one-dimensional characters is heavy-handed and even his description of action sequences--long a Clancy strong suit--is lacking the force and eloquence of his previous work.
I'm currently re-reading "Red Storm Rising." The distinction between the quality of that earlier work and "Teeth" is striking. As a Clancy fan, I come not to bury him but to praise him--his earlier work, at least--and hope that he can return to that level of writing in the future.
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Summary: was my copy of the book missing the last 150 pages????
Review: this is probably one of the worst endings to a book that i have seen. i was certain that the last 150 pages of my book were missing. this is like building a house and forgetting to put a roof on it. and this from a guy who packs more action into the last 150-200 pages of a book than anyone. i honestly cant believe that he wrote this book -either that, or this book is simply the preamble, and he is setting us up for an unbelievable sequal where we will see the "teeth" of the tiger.
also, whats with the the 2 names per brother- i was back and forth trying to remember "which one was what one, or what one was who"(dr, seuss). please mr. clancy, read these many, and consistent reviews before you write the next book. thanks.
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Summary: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH CLANCY?
Review: I am so glad I checked this out from the library rather than buy a copy. I won't bother to go into the details of the "plot" or "characters" because other reviewers have given you enough. The last Clancy novel I read was "Cybernation" back in 2002. It was actually written by a ghost-writer, and the plot was a joke. I decided to give Clancy one more try for plane flights from Oregon to Georgia. A mistake. Mr. Clancy, please, please, get your attorney to get you out of your book contract. You are disrespecting your readers and you don't need the money. I liked your first books a lot.
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Summary: This tiger needs dental work - Very clearly subpar
Review: I had high expectations for this novel, but ended up sorely disappointed. The characters, particularly Jack Ryan Jr., are extremely poorly developed. The Caruso twins talk to each other like actors in a bad 80's movie, constantly saying things like "Roger that," and "Bro". Several phrases are inexplicably repeated throughout the novel, such as "There's more men need killin' than horses need stealin'," and "being a spook ain't like in the movies."
The worse part of this book, however, is the ending, or non-ending, as the case happens to be. Nothing HAPPENS! There is no tying up of lose ends, not even any hint of a sequel. This and the many, many, unbelievable logical stretches that the author makes in this novel truly make for an unpleasurable reading experience. Do yourself a favor, and go read some GOOD Clancy - books like Red Storm Rising and Without Remorse are much better indicators of what he can really do.
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Summary: Time to move on . . .
Review: Perhaps Mr. Clancy didn't write this book. At least that's what I choose to believe. It just isn't coming close to what readers of novels such as Patriot Games and Clear/Present Danger grew to expect. It reads more like Op-Center stuff.
Time to move on to the next gen in this genre, like Brad Thor and Michael Hawke.
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Summary: What a horrible effort by one of my favorite authors
Review: I found myself checking the front cover again and again while reading this book. Could this half-hearted effort really be written by Tom Clancy? Trust me, fellow Clancy fans ... do NOT waste your money. If you really want to read it, then you should visit your local library.
The Teeth of the Tiger has all the ingredients of a quality Tom Clancy book. There's his usual mastery of technical gadgetry and procedures, a government agency and operatives facing evil-doers, travel to foreign countries, and the chance to root for the good guys. So why does this book fall so flat? The ratio of the ingredients is all wrong. It's 2% plot, 5% government agency insight, 3% gadgetry, 4% rooting for the good guys, and 83% "filler" slop that reads like a badly written travel guide by Lonely Planet.
Clearly Tom Clancy's spent a bit of time travelling through Europe. It's unfortunate that he devotes much of this book to inane observations on very mundane subjects such as the cleanliness of German streets or the brand names of suits one can find in Italy.
I wish I had never read this book, but not just because of the money and time I wasted. I wish I had never read this book so my favorable impression of Clancy as a writer that would never merely "phone in" a performance would remain intact.
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