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Summary: great!!!
Review: This book was great. There was a lot of action. I loved the parts with the SEALs and the submarine. The book was so great and you can ignore all the right wing stuff everyone else talks about. There isn't that much of it and everything else was great.
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Summary: U.S.S. Seawolf Captured By China
Review: The Chinese military is finally powerful enough to throw the U.S. off their backs. Using a fleet of supersubmarines, led by the "Xia III," they'll take out major United States West Coast cities with long-range nuclear missiles-----from right off the Eastern Pacific seaboard!Admiral Arnold Morgan dispatches the U.S.S. Seawolf (SSN-21) to stop the fleet. Unfortunately, Seawolf is captured, and it's up to the U.S. Navy to get her, officers, torpedo tubes and periscope and all, back unharmed.
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Summary: Submarines + right-wing rhetoric = bad book
Review: I have all of Patrick Robinson's previous books. While nothing special, they all had decent stories containing a bunch of comptetent American military men cruising around the world in submarines or undergoing secret operations to keep the world free for the American way. The characters and plot in USS Seawolf are fairly standard Robinson. The characters aren't too deep. The plot is ok, but is very slow in the middle. However, after finishing USS Seawolf, I felt that I like I had been bludgeoned over the head with right wing ideas without mercy for 3 hours straight. According to the book, politicians are stupid, Chinese are evil, and military men are the only people worth anything on this planet (unless they're the offspring of politicans, in which case they're useless). I was prepared for an average techno-military thriller. Instead, I got a book that seems like it should have been serialized in an ultra-right-wing magazine.
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Summary: A Melodramatic muddle
Review: I have been a great fan of Patrick Robinson's earlier three works. After reading the generally neutral/negative reviews here about this latest title, I still chose to purchase it. I now wish I'd paid greater credence to the earlier reviews. It seems that Robinson has settled into a 'groove' and rather than developing into new scenarios and characters, he is instead settling deeply into a well worn formula and losing the earlier imaginative plots, interesting characters, and, most surprising of all, the technical accuracy of his earlier books. Submariners will variously laugh and cringe at his portrayal of the Seawolf, its capabilities, and its crew. The other characters have been stereotyped almost beyond belief and made very thin and undeveloped, while the plot itself has some glaring gaps and inconsistencies. I am a strongly right-wing supporter myself, but even I found myself cringing at Robinson's too-strong editorialising. While I suspect that Robinson is, alas, sadly correct about many of the statements he puts into his characters' mouths (with respect to the Clinton administration's dealings with the Chinese), he will alienate more people than he will convert by making things so incredibly black and white, unlike the subtly hued shades of grey which surround all people's actions in the real world. The last fifty pages are the biggest let down of all. The Chinese antagonist acts unrealistically, and so too do almost all of the US protagonists, including the submarine Captain who I would have thought might have chosen to fight the injustice that occurred rather than succumb to it. It is always a great shame when an author deteriorates from the freshness and innovation that made his success. Like many of the other reviewers, I will - reluctantly - buy one more of Robinson's books in the hope that he gets better. Or maybe, next time, I'll read the Amazon reviews more carefully and trust them!
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Summary: Wishful Militarism
Review: I have read all of the Patrick Robinson books and have enjoyed them even though Robinson verges on the edge of serious right wing political militarism. This last book is not only on the verge as his other books have been, this one falls off the edge into significant political right-wing claptrap. This author is too good to let himself drift into the blind espousal of such ideology. Thus I was disappointed in this book. The story is fun; it kept me interested; it stretched credibility a little too often. But those lapses are hallmarks of such books. What pushed me over the edge were the constant references to pro/redneck/republican/Limbaugh generalities. The Oliver North-like colonel was too much. I will read one more of Robinson's; hopefully he can rise above this god-awful ideology.
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Summary: A weak effort
Review: Okay, so I'm English but I have enjoyed the previous novels and was looking forward to this one. Now I don't mind a military novel if it is well written and the characters are believable, but this novel fails in many areas. The US Navy are too Hawkish and the SEALS are invincible superheroes (and how nice that three SAS soldiers are un-necessarily involved to make us Brits feel better) and the US President is portrayed as a rather pathetic individual rather then the leader of the free world! The writing is oddly stilted and I suppose the ending was supposed to have a twist, but in reality it was rushed and did not feel right. Mr Robinson has proved that he has in in him to write good navy novels and I hope he gets back on the right track again soon.
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Summary: Excellent story, excellent!
Review: I don't know what people are talking about giving this book anything less than 3 stars. Excellent plot, characters and story. I love NSA Admiral Morgan and Captain Crocker. Excellent characters and both highly rememberable. I don't normally read books personally but I made an exception when I discovered this book and read it in a few days. Now that I'm finished with it I intend to re-read it and already purchases Kilo Class and Nimitz Class. If you're looking for a good naval thriller, look no further!
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Summary: Great action ,good story...but...
Review: This is a book that will keep you up all night reading. The action is great as the story with all its twists & turns. It is a shame, however, that the author didn't do a better job of learing US Navy nomenclature and the proper ranks & ratings. A glaring error that distracts from the book for any ex-Navy persons.
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Summary: Blatant propaganda
Review: Robinson has wasted a great deal of paper to trash the Chinese as laundrymen, the (US) Democratic Party a treasonous fools, the (US) Congress as obstructionist idiots. How the righteous military establishment gets anything done is beyond me. I picked up this book because, as a former deck officer, I usually enjoy a good sea-going yarn. I closed the book when I found that Oliver North, thinly disguised as Col. Hart, was the Second Coming instead of someone who should have been stripped of his commission.
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Summary: NO: POLITICS+PREJUDICE+PLAYING NASTY WORDS WITH YOUR READER
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. First of all, U.S.S. Seawolf seems to be a twin of Kilo Class. It offers nothing new. After reading the first half, I couldn't bear to finish the rest, because I don't want a piece of long and boring military history. I agree that Patrick did well in describing his plots, but there is no conflicting themes or growth of characters developing. Overall, the book provides no insights or anything possessing a deeper meaning. I felt that it's a waste of paper and a destruction of our forests to publish this book solely for thrill and entertainment. In addition, just from the first few chapters, I sensed a strong prejudice. I know that the Communists are not that nice, but they don't deserve such cussing in the book as if they were the Nazis. There is a strong point I want to bring out here, and I sincerely hope that Patrick wasn't a discriminator or some agents from the government to spread political propagandas. Suppose Patrick is telling truth in his new book, then I really feel that the US government is no different than Communists after all. I still couldn't believe in the United States, there are still many government processed intentionally misleading information flying around. For example, the author seems to be very sure about the incident regarding Mr. Lee dealing with top- secret technology in Los Alamos Lab, stating that the PRC government sent out thieves to steal Western technology. This gives me a doubt about our "free" medias. Evident suggest that the major TV channels and newspapers are constantly monitored and "advised" by the US government. For instance, the bombing of the Chinese embassy with three Tomhawk cruise missiles (accident or not) wasn't spread until ten days later, which hints that the media takes instructions from the government. And before the NATO command responded to the crisis, the media in US first announced the bombing as a mere accident. I was also forced to believe that Americans are still very prejudicial after all. Through all the cussing (i.e.: Chinese pricks, motherf_ckers, etc.), I think the US military should put more disciplines in our brave soldiers. Now, assume that the author is trying to get his own influence in the story (or lying), which I am now forced to agree 90%. I really appreciate his "peace loving" to the Chinese people. Also, he tends to put the Americans, the main characters, as invincible in the conflict, but Chinese, the antagonists, as evil and stupid. I don't need another the prince and the monster story to build my morals!!! Last, one of my colleagues in Asian History points out that the truth about the trial of the American prisoners in the story is very suspicious. And I'm lucky to be advised on this. In U.S.S. Seawolf, the crew of the submarine was captured by the PRC government, because Seawolf was spying on the new Chinese warships and got caught (while returning home in international water). The book said that the Chinese tortured the prisoners and gave no rights. My colleague says that it's hard to be true now a time. Also, after reading the ways of torturing, he handed me a document on how the American agency imprison the Communists in China to help Chiang Kai Shek and his nationalists (Kuomingdan) government fighting off the Communists' revolution led by Mao Zedong. The methods the American "peace keepers" used in China to the captured Communists were the same as the methods the Chinese used to the captured Americans. He or she (I want it to be anonymous) said that the evident supporting his argument is hardly unreliable, collected from both China and the West. And this really makes me think what the book is hinting. And about the darkness behind the walls of the White House, the Congress, the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, or even the Supreme Court. If it's true that the author is taking his own accounts to the story, I believe he is an extremely prjudicial writer, or an agent from the government to fool all American people, or an insane and cruel mental. My point is, don't spend that dollar on this book. It's just as a duplicate of Patrick's other collection. It's a boring and prejudicial "history book". I demand that Patrick does better for his fans, and don't do anything similar to this sh_t. And also, no politics, no attacks on the Democrats or supports to the Republic. P.S. BLESS OUR FORESTS, AGAIN
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