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"WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF TOM CLANCY'S BOOKS"

i have started reading tom clancy's book and there pretty good so far what do you think off them.

Won't be Red Storm Rising, that's a pretty brick like book and around 1/2 is diplomacy, espionage, and "b**ody hell there are scores of Russians attacking us" type stuff, before the Nato forces engage.

I've tried a few other authors like Chris Ryan, Colin Forbes, Ken Nicholls etc but they never seem to be as good. The Cell by Colin Forbes was sooooooo stupid it was beyond belief.

I haven't read much of Clancy mainly because he's an idiot.

But Without Remorse was pretty good. I suggest you read that.

Asher D wrote:
> I cant remember.
> All I knwo is that it was nearly all action. Short by Clancy
> standards, but oh so much more enjoyable.

Was it Red Storm Rising? That's pretty much all action.

I think it was called that.....

I can't read. Honest.

Practical Magic wrote:
> Which one are you reading ? If you haven't already, then get Rainbow
> Six, Executive Orders, Red Storm, and Debt Of Honour, and Sum Of All
> Fears - easily his best ones so far.
>
> Do not touch the Netforce series with a bargepole unless you're a
> completist, and the Op Centre series has moments of brilliance mixed
> with it's somewhat tedious nature...

funny you say that that's what i'm reading im on the 3rd

I cant remember.
All I knwo is that it was nearly all action. Short by Clancy standards, but oh so much more enjoyable.

Asher D wrote:
> I remember one book by him that I treasured. I forget it now.

a bit of a paradox :D

Rainbow Six is great at the action parts - it's a shame there is 170 pages of crap no-one cares about in between.

I remember one book by him that I treasured. I forget it now.

Too detailed and military, I don't care if an f-165392922 missile's range is 1002.4444444448 miles in the wind.

Borat Sagdiyev wrote:
> I read rainbow six and thought it was pants. its too bravado for me.
> Chris Ryan is a far better author, his books are much more realistic
> in my opinion. the one I'm reading now, land of fire, is great.

For heavens sake don't read "The Real Bravo Two Zero"... To be honest I've always found Ryan's books a tad simple and not very interesting. His account of his time in the Gulf War always seemed a little bizarre to me, and the recent book about the truth behind his exploits there made an interesting read. Still, we all like different authors so each to his own :)