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Summary: Paper Tiger is more like it....
Review: As a huge Clancy fan, I've been disappointed - again. Since the last true Clancy book, Rainbow 6, Clancy just hasn't had it going on.From it's hugely implausible ending - that you saw coming a mile away, to his repeated use of phrases ("Patience is something that takes time to learn" or drivel to that effect), to the total lack of suspense and drama, this paper tiger has no teeth. Tom, go back to your old books and read how you used to grab us by the throat and never let us go. To everyone else, spend your money on something more suspenseful, like a Cat In The Hat book...
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Summary: I wish I could give this a better review....
Review: After reading "The Bear and The Dragon", I swore off Tom Clancy. I couldn't stand any more disappointments from my once-favorite author. Then Clancy changed gears. He went back in time to give us "Red Rabbit". So, I gave him another chance. And, behold, "Red Rabbit" was not bad. It was certainly not of the same ilk as Clancy's earlier work, but it seemed a step in the right direction. Now, we have "Teeth of the Tiger" and whole new cast of characters. With tempered enthusiasm, I ordered it. My expectations were low, but I WANTED it to be good. I WANTED an excuse to get back on the Clancy bandwagon. Well, so much for that idea. "Teeth of the Tiger" is not good. It's better than "The Bear and The Dragon", but that is faint praise indeed. I began playing a game with Clancy's writing about half way through: Could he make it an entire page with out mentioning Jack Junior's dad? Guess what - he never did! Some truly implausible stuff happens in this tale. A President resigns because he's tired of the job? Another President, who never received a single vote, is assasinated by a Klukker? A federal agency exists, and no one in the current govt knows about it, but somehow the military and the FBI do? Double huh? How I long for the days of "Red October", "Cardinal of the Kremlin", even "Debt of Honor". I couldn't wait for the new Clancy book in those days. Well, this time it really is over. Sorry Tom. I'm out.
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Summary: Bah...go back to Ryan Sr!!!
Review: This was a disappointment. I think the introduction of Jack Jr. as a leading character should've been handled much differently. Definitely wasn't up to the same standards as his early Ryan books. Let's hope Clancy hasn't gone the route of many other authors who simply write a book to make a movie, ala Thomas Harris. C'mon, if you're going to write a book, MAKE IT A GOOD ONE!
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Summary: I agree wholeheartedly with the 1-star generals
Review: This book is a big old dollop of excrement. Simple.
Don't buy it. It isn't even worth the walk to the library to borrow it. Seriously...look at the customer rating: 2.29 over 550+ reviews. This says something! Plot: what plot? It's obvious!
Characters: very generic! actually this is like a revenge novel written by a 10 year old who's been beatne up by the local bad guys. A ten year old and two of his children-of-yuppy friends, who happen to be twin brothers! Yawn! Actually I think the reason why we keep buying drivel like this and other stuff by guys like Robert Jordan is because- while we know they're crap, and feel guilty about doing it- there's very little else out there that rises above their level because these guys became the even sinking benchmark. Books seems to be falling into a mire of mediocrity, like every other expression of popular culture so it seems. So in essence it's better the devil you know (Clancy) than the one you don't (some other hack). Perhaps the publishers think, well they keep buying second rate crap so we'll keep giving them second rate crap! See, the market determines production. I don't know about you, but I want more. I want quality. I want books like the hunt for red october and red storm rising. I want to read somebody who hasn't sold his soul for the mighty greenback. And I think we should tell the publishers enough is enough...we want better by not buying this excrement. We need to raise the benchmark again. When the buttom line starts to hurt then we might get some decent popular books to read. I know in the absence of anything else we take what is available (we're on a vicious cycle: we buy, they provide, so we keep buying, etc, etc, etc, even though it is bad -> no alternative players in the market)...but I'd rather read the labels on window cleaner than this rubbish! However I do sleep a little better know that Stephen Hunter is still out there writing great popular books. He's the last of this genre so it seems, all the others, Coonts, Brown, etc., etc,. have fallen by the wayside. WHy doesn't Larry Bond come back???
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Summary: What happened to Clancy?
Review: Clancy's last really good book was "Debt of Honor." "Bear & the Dragon," "Red Rabbit," and now this book have all felt like inferior, phoned-in efforts. The twins say each other's nicknames CONSTANTLY and it gets tiresome. Plus, Clancy is getting a REALLY annoying habit of finding a catchphrase and repeating it endlessly -- in the narrative, out of the one character's mouth, out of another character's mouth (ex: "Reality is analog, not digital"). It's a fun catchphrase, Tom -- use it once, maybe twice -- NO MORE. I read Clancy for technothriller action sequences, not office procedurals or political views. Get back to what you're good at, Mr. Clancy, or stop writing.
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Summary: Our heroes aren't made, they're bred
Review: After Rainbow 6 I thought Clancy had painted himself into a corner. The thought of reading "The Further Adventures of Ding and His Multinational Threat Control Group" was a little unsettling. Instead Mr. Clancy goes back in time, gives us more of the Foley dynamic duo action (a'la Cardinal of the Kremlin) and then forward to bring out a next generation. This book was a pretty good read and I would recommend as foundation material for the following books that are sure to come. If Mr. Clancy could write every book as good as HFRO or DoH, I would grow a uterus and have his babies, but til then I'll just keep reading his books.
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Summary: Should be titled: Spy Kids IV
Review: The characters in this story are totally unlike any in previous Clancy novels. The plot revolves around three main characters. Two are overgrown frat boys (Brian and Dominic) in their early 20's, who refer to each other as "bro". One is a Marine and the other an FBI agent. Better still, they're twin brothers. Armed with a typical, American, macho, white male, my-way-or-no-way attitude and surfer lingo, these two learn to fight terrorism in a matter of weeks. Each sentence they speak either contains a curse word or the word "bro". The other character is Jack Ryan, Jr. He's your typical pompous rich kid with no direction in life, so he tries to follow in dad's footsteps. In the beginning of the story, he states that he wants to serve his country. So what does he do? Join the Marines? Serve in the Peace Corps? No! He talks his way into a job working as a spook with an elite group of experienced professionals. An unlikely entry-level gig for a geek fresh outta college. Guess I missed that one on Monster.com. Every sentence he utters includes references to "dad". It's utterly disgusting. If all references from Jack Ryan Jr. about his dad were deleted from the novel, it would be about 100 pages shorter. The story is pretty easy to figure out long before the ending of the book...hope you can stomach it that long! In Clancy's next book, I'd like to see Brian "Enzo" Caruso and his twin "bro" Dominic "Aldo" Caruoso get the crap kicked outta them by a gang of bikers in a McDonald's where Jack Ryan Jr. works making fries and sweeping the floors.
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Summary: Setup
Review: This book is a definite set up for its sequel. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But the set up is Prince Ali as the "Emir". The author should not have been so blatant and the editor extremely failed to detect it. Since the new book isn't out it does leave time for the Mr. Clancy to have a plot twist and have Prince Ali as the apparent "Emir".
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Summary: Dear Mr. Clancy: Start over with Red October.
Review: Clancy's stories are always a bit fanciful and his characters larger than life. This book leaves behind the intricated detail of military and intelligence operations. No "Jonesy" carefully manning the sonar phones. No Bart Mancuso running a tight ship to keep America safe. Instead, we have a wildly improbably story of a renegade retired senator killing people he and his colleagues have concluded might be funding terrorists. The trained assassins do this with just a few weeks' training and no apparent knowledge of the foreign countries into which they are dropped. Clancy's churning them out too fast. There is little thought to character or even the customary fascination with all things military. Not worth the trip to the library let alone a trip to the bookstore.
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Summary: review of The Teeth of the Tiger
Review: The book The Teeth of the Tiger was an excellent book. Tom Clancy wrote it. It had many twist in the plot. It was an interesting book that will hold your attention to the last page. It is a pretty long book though it read fast. It is four hundred and some od pages long.
This book follows the Jack Ryan character loosely. It really follows his son, two young brothers one from the marines and one from the FBI, and a group of terrorists. It follows Jack Ryan Jr. working for his dads company tracking suspected terrorists. It also follows the two brothers training for a secret company. This book has some strong language and I recommend this book for people no younger than twelve years old.
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