Tom Clancy Suggestion

[Arcadevere]

so okay, i was playing The Division lately (a game adaptation of Ubisoft from Tom Clancy) and i was starting to think i should read any Tom Clancy books since i haven't read any single of them

please tell me what book to start and your thoughts about Tom Clancy

 

[Bev Vincent]

I liked some of his early books. Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games. After a while he became so jingoistic that I gave up. Rainbow Six put me on the edge; The Bear and the Dragon pushed me over.

 

[Arcadevere]

I liked some of his early books. Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games. After a while he became so jingoistic that I gave up. Rainbow Six put me on the edge; The Bear and the Dragon pushed me over.

i see, will take note that three and start hauling it in the bookstore
I've played Tom Clancy's Rainbow six Siege last year and i quite enjoyed it althou i did not trust UBI in the game physics, but the game lessen the boredom TBQH. i really have no idea what the book contains :O

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I would concentrate on his first six novels and then judge from there....he was a very gifted thriller/technical writer.....I think the term "jingoistic" does him a disservice....he WAS politically chauvinistic, but the reads were still good.....

 

[Bev Vincent]

The part that I grew to despise was that he would have his villains do something patently stupid to give the good guys an excuse to mow them down. Five guys surrounded by a heavily armed tactical team and one of them decides to go for his gun, for example. He treated some foreign groups very badly, in my opinion. Very shabbily indeed.

 

[GNTLGNT]

The part that I grew to despise was that he would have his villains do something patently stupid to give the good guys an excuse to mow them down. Five guys surrounded by a heavily armed tactical team and one of them decides to go for his gun, for example. He treated some foreign groups very badly, in my opinion. Very shabbily indeed.

...I won't argue those points because they are valid....still, he isn't the only novelist to use similar tactics as plotting crutches, and though I disagree with them, I gave him a pass and enjoyed the total package....

 

[ghost19]

Red Storm Rising is one of the best WWIII books I've ever read, if not the best, as far as from a conventional military tactics and equipment point of view. There are many elements to the book, Special Forces, Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, tank battles, air battles, you name it. The book covers all aspects of a fictional conventional sea/ground/air war between NATO and WARSAW PACT forces and keeps you turning the pages. It's worth a read if you like military type books.

 

[Grant87]

I also plan to start reading some of his stuff. I bought The Hunt for Red October, because it's the first Jack Ryan novel.

 

[ghost19]

I also plan to start reading some of his stuff. I bought The Hunt for Red October, because it's the first Jack Ryan novel.

Excellent book. Quite a bit different than the movie, which was also very good.

 

[Arcadevere]

oh Mister Clancy is more on Military stuff books (happens that i'm focused much in military and empire history)

guess it's not only ME would enjoy these kind of novel *coughs* my military enthusiast friend *coughs*

 

[Kurben]

I agree with Bev Vincent here. I liked his earlier stuff but have by now given up on him. The first Jack Ryans were good, the later were not really the same and the ones about his son Jack Ryan Jr i dont like at all. I think I read the first two, or tried rather.....

 

[ghost19]

oh Mister Clancy is more on Military stuff books (happens that i'm focused much in military and empire history)

I could discuss military history all the live long day

 

[Arcadevere]

now that one reminds me of my buddy who happens to have obsession to military stuff. i think you would like each other because of your same likeness, he loves military stuffs btw.

 

[Kurben]

And in to the Valley of death rode the 600... ..