Tom Clancy

webwizard333 · 07-15-2002, 07:53 PM

I read a few of his books when I was younger, but they were over my head. I've started to read them again (in the order published) and am greatly enjoying them. I personally like his attention to detail so the scenario comes out as realistic. Also, his characters are very well depicted.

***IronParrot*** · 07-16-2002, 09:39 PM

I've never had time to read his work (it's pretty low-priority on my list considering how much other stuff I want to get through first, and I'm no real fan of series fiction) but if I were to start, where would you recommend I begin?

webwizard333 · 07-16-2002, 10:14 PM

I've decided to go in order published, so I started out with Hunt for Red October, moved on to Red Storm Rising, and so on. Unfortunately my library can hardly be called well stocked (or well staffed

), so I'll have to look up on Amazon the ones I mssed and get them at bookstores or order them from some of the other libraries.

***Khamûl*** · 07-17-2002, 09:09 PM

I've read several of his books and I loved them all. When I first started, I didn't realize that there was any kind of chronology involved. I don't remember if I read Patriot Games or The Hunt for Red October first. I've also read Clear and Present Danger, Without Remorse, and I'm currently reading The Sum of All Fears. Patriot Games is my favorite. They're all very good books.

viggosbeard · 07-19-2002, 05:52 AM

I paticularly enjoyed red storm rising and sum of all fears - i think hes a great writer but some of the info does take a recap every so often ! I bet the british secret service read his books to fing out whats happening in the world.

Spock · 07-19-2002, 03:25 PM

He writes using impecable sources. The services of which he speaks all read his stuff and give him a lot of input.
Some of the senarios are too real. That's what disappointed me about sum of all fears movie. They took an arab terrorist like group using a nuke on NY and changed it to a domestic terrorist bombing the super bowl. Also in another recent release, Nazi's were used as the villians while the book had them as Arabs. Hollywod just doesn't get it.

Wayfarer · 07-19-2002, 04:28 PM

I liked Without Remorse.

***Khamûl*** · 07-21-2002, 02:30 AM

That was a nice, dark, twisted tale of revenge wasn't it?

***Jonathan*** · 03-09-2003, 12:47 PM

I am thinking of reading some of Tom Clancy. I have read that he includes very much knowledge of weapons, politics, military tacticts and that sort of things in his novels. I believe that three of his books has hit the cinemas, The Sum of all Fears as the latest book.
Now I wonder if anyone has read anything by Clancy and recommends any of his books. Which novel is the best? Which should I start with? Or should I forget every thought of reading Clancy and start reading LotR for the third time?

Millane · 03-13-2003, 05:37 AM

my favourite Tom Clancy book was definately Rainbow Six but if your looking for a good military read i suggest War of the Rats by David Robbins... it was the story of Stalingrad from the German and Russian armies greatest snipers fighting it out to kill the other first... hmmm thats gotta be one of the greatest books ever... But if youve got your heart set on Tom Clancy id definately go Rainbow Six

Spock · 03-13-2003, 05:38 AM

Clancy's books are far more interesting and frightening than the movies which make major changes to be p.c. and don't allow your mind to "see" but rather depend on special effects. His only book that is "slow" is "Net Force" otherwise pick one up at any library and enjoy.

FrodoFriend · 03-13-2003, 09:23 AM

Rainbow Six is by far the best that I've read.

After that, The Cardinal of the Kremlin and of course the old favorite, The Hunt for Red October.

His other books that I've read were too technical for me, not to mention his female characters are always so terrible and sometimes the men aren't much better, so I wouldn't recommend them.

GrayMouser · 03-13-2003, 11:13 AM

Not a big Clancy fan, but did enjoy "Clear and Present Danger" (liked the movie too). A little less black and white.

My main complaint about "Red October" was that it was too one-sided (in the story sense) The U.S. Navy was so much more powerful than the Russkies that it killed the suspense - I know this was true in real life, but it doesn't make for an interesting tale -(one reason I don't like Grisham either).

***Khamûl*** · 03-14-2003, 01:17 AM

I cannot believe that there's not already a Tom Clancy thread around here. If someone finds one, let me know.

The Hunt for Red October is a good place to start. Clear and Present Danger is also very good, but I'd have to say that my favorite is Patriot Games. I haven't read Rainbow Six though.

Grey_Wolf · 03-14-2003, 12:05 PM

When I bought Clancy's Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces I saw a list of other Mil.Hist.-books by Clancy and consequently I ordered those about the Marines, the Airborne Task Forces, a fighter wing, a carrier and a submarine as well.

TheWhiteRider · 04-08-2003, 04:54 PM

I have fully read Rainbow Six, which i am suprised no one else has, but i have started several others of his. I just wanted to read some other books first.

Aralyn · 04-09-2003, 10:52 PM

I've read Sum of All Fears and I like it. I don't do chronoligical order with his books but read them as I feel. My dad has the game Rainbow Six (computer game) and the second one Desert something I think. V.Fun.
. . . just checked it's Rogue Spear not Desert something

jerseydevil · 04-23-2003, 04:55 AM

I just got done reading Rainbow Six and I thought it was really good. It's about environmental fanatics and an elite anti-terrorist organisation. I highly recommend it.

Aralyn · 04-23-2003, 10:21 AM

HERE IT IS!!! I KNEW IT WAS IN HERE SOMEWHERE!!!

***IronParrot*** · 04-23-2003, 04:04 PM

Threads merged.

07-15-2002, 07:53 PM	#1
webwizard333 Elf Lord Join Date: May 2001 Location: myob Posts: 587	Tom Clancey I read a few of his books when I was younger, but they were over my head. I've started to read them again (in the order published) and am greatly enjoying them. I personally like his attention to detail so the scenario comes out as realistic. Also, his characters are very well depicted. __________________ Boo!

07-16-2002, 09:39 PM	#2
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	I've never had time to read his work (it's pretty low-priority on my list considering how much other stuff I want to get through first, and I'm no real fan of series fiction) but if I were to start, where would you recommend I begin? __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

07-16-2002, 10:14 PM	#3
webwizard333 Elf Lord Join Date: May 2001 Location: myob Posts: 587	I've decided to go in order published, so I started out with Hunt for Red October, moved on to Red Storm Rising, and so on. Unfortunately my library can hardly be called well stocked (or well staffed ), so I'll have to look up on Amazon the ones I mssed and get them at bookstores or order them from some of the other libraries. __________________ Boo!

07-17-2002, 09:09 PM	#4
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I've read several of his books and I loved them all. When I first started, I didn't realize that there was any kind of chronology involved. I don't remember if I read Patriot Games or The Hunt for Red October first. I've also read Clear and Present Danger, Without Remorse, and I'm currently reading The Sum of All Fears. Patriot Games is my favorite. They're all very good books. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

07-19-2002, 05:52 AM	#5
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	I paticularly enjoyed red storm rising and sum of all fears - i think hes a great writer but some of the info does take a recap every so often ! I bet the british secret service read his books to fing out whats happening in the world. __________________ You cant resist her Shes in your bones Shes in your marrow And your ride home You cant avoid her Shes in the air In between molecules Of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Only in dreams

07-19-2002, 03:25 PM	#6
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	He writes using impecable sources. The services of which he speaks all read his stuff and give him a lot of input. Some of the senarios are too real. That's what disappointed me about sum of all fears movie. They took an arab terrorist like group using a nuke on NY and changed it to a domestic terrorist bombing the super bowl. Also in another recent release, Nazi's were used as the villians while the book had them as Arabs. Hollywod just doesn't get it. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-19-2002, 04:28 PM	#7
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I liked Without Remorse. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

07-21-2002, 02:30 AM	#8
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	That was a nice, dark, twisted tale of revenge wasn't it? __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

03-09-2003, 12:47 PM	#9
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Tom Clancy I am thinking of reading some of Tom Clancy. I have read that he includes very much knowledge of weapons, politics, military tacticts and that sort of things in his novels. I believe that three of his books has hit the cinemas, The Sum of all Fears as the latest book. Now I wonder if anyone has read anything by Clancy and recommends any of his books. Which novel is the best? Which should I start with? Or should I forget every thought of reading Clancy and start reading LotR for the third time? __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

03-13-2003, 05:37 AM	#10
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	my favourite Tom Clancy book was definately Rainbow Six but if your looking for a good military read i suggest War of the Rats by David Robbins... it was the story of Stalingrad from the German and Russian armies greatest snipers fighting it out to kill the other first... hmmm thats gotta be one of the greatest books ever... But if youve got your heart set on Tom Clancy id definately go Rainbow Six __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,

03-13-2003, 05:38 AM	#11
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Clancy's books are far more interesting and frightening than the movies which make major changes to be p.c. and don't allow your mind to "see" but rather depend on special effects. His only book that is "slow" is "Net Force" otherwise pick one up at any library and enjoy. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

03-13-2003, 09:23 AM	#12
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	Rainbow Six is by far the best that I've read. After that, The Cardinal of the Kremlin and of course the old favorite, The Hunt for Red October. His other books that I've read were too technical for me, not to mention his female characters are always so terrible and sometimes the men aren't much better, so I wouldn't recommend them. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

03-13-2003, 11:13 AM	#13
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Not a big Clancy fan, but did enjoy "Clear and Present Danger" (liked the movie too). A little less black and white. My main complaint about "Red October" was that it was too one-sided (in the story sense) The U.S. Navy was so much more powerful than the Russkies that it killed the suspense - I know this was true in real life, but it doesn't make for an interesting tale -(one reason I don't like Grisham either). __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

03-14-2003, 01:17 AM	#14
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I cannot believe that there's not already a Tom Clancy thread around here. If someone finds one, let me know. The Hunt for Red October is a good place to start. Clear and Present Danger is also very good, but I'd have to say that my favorite is Patriot Games. I haven't read Rainbow Six though. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

03-14-2003, 12:05 PM	#15
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	When I bought Clancy's Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces I saw a list of other Mil.Hist.-books by Clancy and consequently I ordered those about the Marines, the Airborne Task Forces, a fighter wing, a carrier and a submarine as well. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 03-15-2003 at 07:12 AM.

04-08-2003, 04:54 PM	#16
TheWhiteRider Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: On top of a white horse named Shadowfax. Posts: 114	I have fully read Rainbow Six, which i am suprised no one else has, but i have started several others of his. I just wanted to read some other books first. __________________ "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger." ~Gildor "Begun, the Clone War has..." ~Yoda "I can't see, as I'm facing your pitiful lies, don't have the strength, to carry your heavy load of lies." ~H.I.M.

04-09-2003, 10:52 PM	#17
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	I've read Sum of All Fears and I like it. I don't do chronoligical order with his books but read them as I feel. My dad has the game Rainbow Six (computer game) and the second one Desert something I think. V.Fun. . . . just checked it's Rogue Spear not Desert something __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting Last edited by Aralyn : 04-09-2003 at 10:54 PM.

04-23-2003, 04:55 AM	#18
jerseydevil I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Plainsboro, NJ Posts: 9,431	I just got done reading Rainbow Six and I thought it was really good. It's about environmental fanatics and an elite anti-terrorist organisation. I highly recommend it. __________________ Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you! "The only thing better than a great plan is implementing a great plan" - JerseyDevil "If everyone agreed with me all the time, everything would be just fine"- JerseyDevil AboutNewJersey.com New Jersey MessageBoard Another Tolkien Forum Memorial to the Twin Towers New Jersey Map Fellowship of the Messageboard Legend of the Jersey Devil Support New Jersey's Liberty Tower Peacefire.org AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

04-23-2003, 10:21 AM	#19
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	HERE IT IS!!! I KNEW IT WAS IN HERE SOMEWHERE!!! __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting

04-23-2003, 04:04 PM	#20
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