Tom Clancy has died

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JB!

5,254 posts

179 months

Thursday 17th October 2013
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RIP

Loved his books frown

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Friday 18th October 2013
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It's a shame. I've read most of his books and he tells a good story. He could probably have done with a stricter editor and all of the 'Brit' stuff was cringingly stereotyped, but he wrote the sort of books you don't want to put down.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Friday 18th October 02:20

K50 DEL

9,227 posts

227 months

Sunday 20th October 2013
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Executive Orders is my favourite with CaPD a close second... I like all his stuff until the op centre books which I never really got into.

Sorry to hear of his death, his books have kept me entertained for many many hours over the years.

droopsnoot

11,810 posts

241 months

Tuesday 11th February 2014
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Beati Dogu said:
and all of the 'Brit' stuff was cringingly stereotyped
Yes, reading through 'Command Authority' now and finding the same - even the Brits working in financial houses in the city of London talk like Dick van Dyke. And somehow the Ryan's paper boy knows they are from the US because, unusually for the UK I believe, he delivers the paper by throwing it into the front garden of the house in Chatham, not putting it through the letterbox.

Still, the above aside, it's a good read and very interesting so far.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 11th February 2014
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droopsnoot said:
Beati Dogu said:
and all of the 'Brit' stuff was cringingly stereotyped
Yes, reading through 'Command Authority' now and finding the same - even the Brits working in financial houses in the city of London talk like Dick van Dyke. And somehow the Ryan's paper boy knows they are from the US because, unusually for the UK I believe, he delivers the paper by throwing it into the front garden of the house in Chatham, not putting it through the letterbox.

Still, the above aside, it's a good read and very interesting so far.
Anachronisms like that are fun to spot. In a book I read recently, but can't remember the title of, part of central London is portrayed as a quaint network of cobbled streets and cosy little pubs.
In 'The Da Vinci Code', Scottish cottages apparently have screen doors, and archetypal English historian and blue-blooded knight of the realm Sir Leigh Teabing runs around in a stretch Jaguar limo with smoked glass and whitewall tyres.

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Tuesday 11th February 2014
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Halmyre said:
Anachronisms like that are fun to spot. In a book I read recently, but can't remember the title of, part of central London is portrayed as a quaint network of cobbled streets and cosy little pubs.
Please don't tell me that's not the case.

laugh

Another Clancy fan here - Without Remorse is a book I've read several times & still love.

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Saturday 15th February 2014
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Red Storm Rising was my favourite, and The Hunt for Red October.

The former because it was a very plausible scenario for WW3, the latter because there were elements that made it so very possible.

QuantumTokoloshi

4,161 posts

216 months

Saturday 15th February 2014
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I loved his early books, Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October were enjoyable books. It is a pity, as his early books were very good military-political thrillers. RIP Mr Clancy.