well, other than that, there were also the more or less successful movie adaptions "Clear and Present Danger", "Patriot Games" (both starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan) and "The Sum of all Fears" (with Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan
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well, other than that, there were also the more or less successful movie adaptions "Clear and Present Danger", "Patriot Games" (both starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan) and "The Sum of all Fears" (with Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan
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Nobody
Gangster
His books are great. Patriot games, clear and present danger, Cardinal of the Kremlin and Without remorse are my favorites.
Also he made great games (I don't know how much he actually did but his name is on them"
Also he made great games (I don't know how much he actually did but his name is on them"
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
No, his glory days were before you were even a wee lad.
Check out his books, they're a might thick but I think you'd probably enjoy them.My dad actually had dinner with him once. Clancy only lived a few miles from us, and both he and my dad were invited to dinner by a mutual friend. He said he was kind of weird, but still cool at the same time. If you can imagine that.
Oh, and since we're saying this: my favorite was Cardinal of the Kremlin.
This gives me an excuse to do TOM CLANCY POWER RANKINGS.
5. The Bear and the Dragon (for how utterly insane the situation is, plus hyperwar)
4. Rainbow Six
3. Patriot Games
2. The Hunt for Red October
1. The Cardinal of the Kremlin
DISQUALIFIED DUE TO EERIE PRESCIENCE WITH THE WHOLE AIRPLANE THING AND ALSO A LITTLE RASISM:
Debt of Honor
DISQUALIFIED DUE TO LARRY BOND EVEN THOUGH IT IS A FANTASTIC BOOK:
Red Storm Rising
NEVER RECEIVING VOTES:
Any of the books with Jack Ryan's son as the main character
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I've never read any of the ones with his son, but the rest I wholeheartedly agree with. Honorable mention to the first Clancy book I ever read: SSN. I'm not sure if Bond beats Red Storm Rising though! Red Phoenix begins with about as insane an opening act as how BATD gets going. At least RSR's start was somewhat believable.
No, I mean, I disqualified RSR from the list because Larry Bond was co-author.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Oh. Carry on then.
The_Machine
Chieftain
oh no!
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
I had an inexplicable interest in this guy's works when I was in middle school. Amazing author, and his books were damned fun to read, but there was a fairly steady decline in quality of his work throughout the 90s, and Bear and the Dragon is probably the cutoff for the last book worth reading. Sum of All Fears was probably my favorite.
He will be missed.
He will be missed.
Nobody
Gangster
Yea it was great. I liked how clark was hunting the pimps/drug dealers. He seems like rambo. And the books shows the ultimate torture method.
Shaihulud
Deity
My 1st post on this forum was a request on certain facts I read on the "Bear n dragon". Since I am not a USian, I find his constant chest thumping of "USA number 1" especially surreal. Btw I have met US citizens who have imbibed Mr Clancy's book whole and allowed his stories to form their opinions of the world.
Sitting on my bookshelf in the front
If you liked it, you might also like any Jack Reacher book.
Or maybe Best Served Cold by Abercrombie.
Kozmos
Jew Detective
I browsed through military sci-fi and most of it seems like utter trash so I will go back to the present and read some of his books.
Azurian
The Azurian
As someone who lives in California, USA there are some really patriotic people here. A popular shirt logo is "Back to Back World War Champions" that teens wear.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
My humble opinion:
the end of the Cold War really took the wind out of Clancy's sails. The newer thrillers he produced were increasingly more crazy (=utterly implausible), to the point it was a pain to read them. Their formulaic nature didn't help either. (Bad guys score a few victories/US hyper-secret special forces save the day/US military uses magic tech to annihilate all enemies/USA#1").
He should have known when to stop writing.
the end of the Cold War really took the wind out of Clancy's sails. The newer thrillers he produced were increasingly more crazy (=utterly implausible), to the point it was a pain to read them. Their formulaic nature didn't help either. (Bad guys score a few victories/US hyper-secret special forces save the day/US military uses magic tech to annihilate all enemies/USA#1").
He should have known when to stop writing.
Murky
Deity
Don't take this disrespect to the dead, but I've liked Bourne Identity series more than the Tom Clancy movies. Maybe it's because they don't try to cast the USA as something that it's not; perfect, always the good guys, etc. I suppose Patriot Games comes closer to that than his later novels.
The only book I ever read by him. I had a surgery when I was 14, had to stay 6 nights in the hospital. Read that and "Raise the Titanic!" the movie was awesome.
Doing the math, Clancy was younger than 30 when it was published - whoa.
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