Springboard (Netforce)

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Summary: Spring-bored
Review: Are they kidding? This series has turned into Net Farce. In no particular order we get a Chinese computer geek who breaks into mega secure US government systems as well as some heavy duty commercial systems with consumate ease, a lecture on religion, or lack thereof, our hero, Jay Gridley, getting a new pair of VR glasses which may or may not let him catch the Chinese computer geek, several lectures on parenthood and is it more important than the job, Abe Kent stalking and killing the bad guy from the last book (or was it two books ago) after the bad guy first steals Abe's socks without taking his shoes off, a Chinese general who hatched the whole plot (plot? plot? don't ask!) and bites the big one (really!) while in Net Force custody, and oh what a lovely romp. Gawd, this series is going to the dogs. I think it's picked up a virus and needs to get its hard drive wiped and reformated.

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Summary: Confusion Reigns
Review: I am a Tom Clancy addict, I've read them all. This is absoultly the worst book ever put out under his name. Actually it may be the worst book of its type I have ever tried to read. I put it down after about 100 pages. There is no plot, the characters are one dimentional, and the story drags, with many pages that have nothing to do with the story. Grindly keeps going off into virtual reality and these little excursions make absolutly no sense. I will sell my copy, used for ten cents, and will be drasticly overcompensated.

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Summary: A point to make
Review: I have agree that this is the worst book of the series so far, but if you'll examine the credits a bit more, you'll see that Clancy isn't responsible for this farce. He had the basic concept and then handed it over to Perry. And I ahve to say quite honestly that Perry generally isn't that great an author, he seems to generate most of his sales by hanging onto the coattails of better authors and series i.e. Clancy, Star Wars, etc... But don't blame Clancy for this one, unless you think he should have proofread it first.

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I have found previous Net Force novels fairly entertaining, but this one is terrible. It tries to make up for poor plot and lack of good VR sequences by including sexual escapades of various characters in almost every other chapter, descriptions of nudity in some of the VR's, and even the art hanging in some of the homes described. I can't believe Clancy has stooped this low. I won't buy another of his novels.

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Summary: Net Force Goes Blue State
Review: Prompted by the November 2004 elections, Net Force loses all of that namby-pamby commie pinko bleeding heart liberal bullhockey and becomes tough as nunchucks! With its usual sense of subtlety (guided by the precept of "why use a chisel when you can use a sledgehammer?"), Perry and Segriff wedge neocon appeasement into every corner and crevice they can! Net Force gets adopted by the Marines! TEN-HUT! John Howard starts proselytizing Net Force staff! Everyone proposes to people they've just met last week! Everyone accepts! MARRIAGES EVERYWHERE! "Smokin' Jay" Gridley loses the "smokin" and spends most of the book in a state of whining angst! And that's not all you get for your $7.99! Act now, and you'll get stereotypical depictions of the French as arrogant snobs! Plus, strong female role models like Saji becoming crying messes, as well as women being depicted as nude sex objects for most of the book! (Where the heck's Toni Fiorella when you need her?) And ... oh ... a little bit of a plot dropped in here and there! Good blippin' grief, what the heck happened to this series? [Sadly, I should point out that not one plot element above was invented or exaggerated for this review.]

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Summary: Horrid book
Review: The Net Force haven't always been up to par with Clancy' other books and with the other ongoing serirs, Op-center. The book starts out and then disintegrates into a plodding story. Instead of focusing on the events, the author time Jay's new quwest to be a fatherhood .Alot of other things afre wrong including the reason why the General has inflilitrated the computers. Read it if your really are desperate for a Clancy fix. This book is the worse of the entire series(I have read all of them)