Tom Clancy

Thoughts on Tom Clancy?

His video games were better than his books

and the video games were shit

hasn't been a good war book since The things they carried. War books are almost as comically bad as popsci.

I've only read a few.

Red Storm Rising is one of the most entertaining books I've ever read. Can't recommend it enough. Then again, I read it in high school.

SSN is one of the worst books I've ever read. I can't condemn it enough. It's completely devoid of characters and nearly every battle seems like 'the stupid chinese had a stupid boat and it was loud, so the quiet americans bloweded it up. one time the stupid chinese heard the quiet americans, but their torpedo was stupid and it missed. then the quiet americans bloweded them up.'

Seems that even people who read good books can appreciate Without Remorse and Rainbow Six as mindless entertainment, so I will read those at some point. Plus, Without Remorse just sounds badass.

I tried to read The Hunt for the Red October since the movie was good, but I had to drop the book halfway through because it was so boring.

I think he's dead.

Why don't you stop reading murder mysteries and detective novels and read some real books

Redeployment is fantastic.

Redeployment was OK. The bit about the contractor and baseball was spot on. The rest was meh.

I read Clear and Present Danger one time. It was okay. Clancy can be really goddamn boring at times but he knows enough stuff to take his stories to a few interesting places.

I preferred his video games. Ghost recon was great

The first few Splinter Cell games were good.

I'm almost done with red October. I was gonna post this, but you beat me to it. I'll post a review when I'm finished, [spoilers] Loved the meltdown scene [spoilers]

They were great. I loved those games. The atmosphere was incredible.

i didn't know splinter cell wrote books

Generation Kill is pretty good, it's more journalism though

if we include non-fic, then WAR by Sebastian Junger is pretty great.

Also, Matterhorn was pretty decent.

His guided tour series is excellent

Exactly.

I guess The Things They Carried was a book, but I wouldn't call it a novel. It's more like a memoirish short story and essay collection.

Not as big a hack as James Patterson, at least he write his books. I think.

He used to.
Not anymore.

Don't laugh, but I still don't get why people love his The Old Man and the Sea.