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Tom Clancy dead
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:52:27 am »
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« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2013, 10:06:39 am »
We can only hope that he was taken out in a covert op, as he would have wanted.
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« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2013, 05:23:03 pm »
I think it was Christopher Buckley who called Clancy the most famous bad American writer since James Fenimore Cooper.
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« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2013, 06:31:23 pm »
Quote from: Dark Star on October 02, 2013, 05:23:03 pm
I think it was Christopher Buckley who called Clancy the most famous bad American writer since James Fenimore Cooper.

I'd read every one of Clancy's books before I could finish one Buckley's dad's books.

In any case, I liked 'Red Storm Rising' a lot in high school, but haven't read anything else. I thought it was pretty good for light fiction.
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« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2013, 06:45:36 pm »
Quote from: Dark Star on October 02, 2013, 05:23:03 pm
I think it was Christopher Buckley who called Clancy the most famous bad American writer since James Fenimore Cooper.

I always liked James Fenimore Cooper.
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« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2013, 08:32:22 pm »
Quote from: NeilT on October 02, 2013, 06:45:36 pm
I always liked James Fenimore Cooper.

I'll take Hawkeye over Jack Ryan, but I very much enjoyed both in high school.  Over the last twenty years I decided I'll take Jack Reacher or Jack Aubrey over Jack Ryan, but Hawkeye will always retain a special place in my heart.  Primarily for Daniel Day Lewis screaming "You stay alive no matter what occurs.  I WILL FIND YOU!!!"
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2013, 09:37:44 am »
I liked the Ryan books, at least until they turned into political manifestos rather than novels.

"Hunt for Red October" was a great movie.  All the rest, Harrison Ford notwithstanding, sucked.
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2013, 10:18:50 am »
Quote from: Limey on October 03, 2013, 09:37:44 am
"Hunt for Red October" was a great movie.  All the rest, Harrison Ford notwithstanding, sucked.

Ben Affleck IS Jack Ryan!
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2013, 10:25:38 am »
Quote from: Limey on October 03, 2013, 09:37:44 am
I liked the Ryan books, at least until they turned into political manifestos rather than novels.

"Hunt for Red October" was a great movie.  All the rest, Harrison Ford notwithstanding, sucked.

'Clear and Present Danger' had its moments. But 'suck' is probably right relative to the high bar that Red October set.
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« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2013, 10:35:22 am »
Quote from: Bench on October 03, 2013, 10:18:50 am
Ben Affleck IS Jack Ryan!

Sorry, never played him.

You hear me?  NEVER. HAPPENED.
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« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2013, 12:06:18 pm »
Quote from: Bench on October 03, 2013, 10:18:50 am
Ben Affleck IS Jack Ryan!

And Batman.  [Sigh]
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« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2013, 12:43:12 pm »
Patriot Games was pretty good.
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« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2013, 02:43:00 pm »
Quote from: geezerdonk on October 03, 2013, 12:43:12 pm
Patriot Games was pretty good.

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« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2013, 05:12:10 pm »
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Ben Affleck IS horrible while playing Jack Ryan!
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« Reply #14 on: October 03, 2013, 05:14:41 pm »
Quote from: Bench on October 02, 2013, 08:32:22 pm
I'll take Hawkeye over Jack Ryan, but I very much enjoyed both in high school.  Over the last twenty years I decided I'll take Jack Reacher or Jack Aubrey over Jack Ryan, but Hawkeye will always retain a special place in my heart.  Primarily for Daniel Day Lewis screaming "You stay alive no matter what occurs.  I WILL FIND YOU!!!"
Jack Aubrey for sure.  Recently cleaned out my bookshelves reducing from 40+ to only about 35 shelf-feet.  All my hardback Clancy's were assigned outright to Oklahoma City.  I am starting over on Jack Aubrey with Master and Commander.  21 more to go.

ETA:  I read Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising in paperback before I started buying the hardbacks ... kind of like my investment experience.  Oh well.  Hunt was great, and RSR did a fantastic job of revealing Soviet tactics and attitudes ... a topic I was pretty well up on at the time.
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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2013, 04:05:36 pm »
The Georgian vernacular is hard to plow through at times; and to the untutored (like me) the nautical terminology is indecipherable.
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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2013, 04:17:05 pm »
Quote from: geezerdonk on October 04, 2013, 04:05:36 pm
The Georgian vernacular is hard to plow through at times; and to the untutored (like me) the nautical terminology is indecipherable.

The first time I read through them, I read the nautical stuff without any comprehension, but I sure liked it:  it was like an abstract painting.  The flip of that was I always found the food and drink descriptions entirely credible and comprehensible.  As for the dialogue, there are still phrases I use that came from those novels:  it ain't in it; [X] is the [X] of the world; go right at 'em . . . .   

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« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2013, 12:32:46 pm »
Quote from: NeilT on October 04, 2013, 04:17:05 pm
As for the dialogue, there are still phrases I use that came from those novels:  it ain't in it; [X] is the [X] of the world; go right at 'em . . . .   


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« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2013, 08:45:50 am »
Quote from: NeilT on October 04, 2013, 04:17:05 pm
The first time I read through them, I read the nautical stuff without any comprehension, but I sure liked it:  it was like an abstract painting.  The flip of that was I always found the food and drink descriptions entirely credible and comprehensible.  As for the dialogue, there are still phrases I use that came from those novels:  it ain't in it; [X] is the [X] of the world; go right at 'em . . . .   

Which sound entirely appropriate coming out of the mouth of someone wearing a bowtie.
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« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2013, 09:19:32 am »
Quote from: Limey on October 07, 2013, 08:45:50 am
Which sound entirely appropriate coming out of the mouth of someone wearing a bowtie.

It's probably not unrelated.
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