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mega_bassist wrote: Aw, bummer. He was one of my favorite authors, also. Red Storm Rising wil always be one of my favorites, also with Red October.
A lot of his earlier works were definitely good. I just did not like seeing his more recent books become collaborations and filled in along other books near CVS counters along with dime a dozen romance novels.
mega_bassist wrote: Aw, bummer. He was one of my favorite authors, also. Red Storm Rising wil always be one of my favorites, also with Red October.
A lot of his earlier works were definitely good. I just did not like seeing his more recent books become collaborations and filled in along other books near CVS counters along with dime a dozen romance novels.
Yeah, I fell off the Tom Clancy track a while ago. The last novel of his that I read was Red Rabbit. It actually was surprsingly good.
The last book I really liked was The Bear & The Dragon. Once he hit Teeth of the Tiger, I pretty much stopped reading his stuff. Still, I read pretty much every book up until then and liked them a lot, so a really good run.
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I wish they would make a Rainbow Six movie as well as some John Clark stuff. The last two I read were Teeth of the Tiger and Without Remorse, did like the character of John Clark.
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I started reading Clancy's book through my Dad (which I've done a lot of - Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, Bill Watterson). I've enjoyed the entire Jack Ryan series, from The Hunt for Red October up to The Bear and the Dragon, as well as the original Rainbow Six and Red Storm Rising. His non-fiction work is also enjoyable.
Guess its time to go back and re-read everything. Again.
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EDIT: That and Tom never really had a hand in either of those series'. They just slapped his name on them far as I know. The books were all written by ghost writers.
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The last of Clancy's books I read was Teeth of the Tiger as well. While I did enjoy Red Rabbit, I remained unconvinced about Tiger. - The final judgement of the book seems a bit odd.
Going from memory...
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The badguys manage to effectively machine gun (oddly prophetic again, considering Kenya... Multiple US shopping malls but end up effectively 'losing' not because they were stopped - only a couple of attacks where. But instead, it was because the US population just didn't give 2 frigs about it.
Jack Ryan son of Jack Ryan seemed a bit much too...
In saying that, growing up, I think Executive Orders was the first proper full 1000 page + book I read. - So maybe year 10 or so? I'm pretty sure I read it before even Lord of the Rings.
I lost a dear friend today and the world lost a great author. Tom Clancy captivated millions of people around the world with the exploits of CIA agent Jack Ryan. He amazed us with his in-depth knowledge of military and intelligence matters. I became friends with Tom in 1988 shortly after he exploded onto the literary scene. I enjoyed all of his books, but had a special feeling for "Clear and Present Danger" because he says in the acknowledgement in the book that he got the idea from conversations we had. I will miss him and offer condolences to his family.
Since everyone else has touched on the novels I will say that he seemed fairly savvy in who he worked with in the game industry; generally if a game had his name on it over the last decade or so you knew it was going to be fairly decent more often than not.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
One of the best Cold War writers ever.RIP you will be missed.Have read all of his books numerous times and enjoyed them all(but not his collaberations;OP-Centre,Net Force and Power Plays etc)His nonfiction writings were very heavy and intense reads.
There will always be "Tom Clancy's..." games coming out in the future. Ubisoft bought Red Storm Entertainment, which Clancy co-founded, a long time ago. His involvement with video games ended around that time I think, but I could be mistaken.
The first Rainbow Six game changed my preference in games forever, and his novels opened me up to a whole new world of fiction. Read and loved the vast majority of his novels. R.I.P. big guy!
Clancy passes away the day the poster for the rebooted Jack Ryan movies surfaces. Here's hoping the new movie will hold true to the novels, but I have a feeling they (Hollywood) wants to turn Ryan into Jason Bourne, but only time will tell. Link to the poster below:
Loved his books, and the games with his name attached to them. I'll never forget the first level of the original ghost recon level, sneaking through the south ossetian countryside, getting massacred by guards (prophetic too, game is about a russian invasion of georgia in 2008)
He had some good characters and some entertaining stories, sad to see him go.
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