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Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour.

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

April 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book is dumb as hell. This book is offensive as hell. That’s where I start with this one. I watched the movie a number of times as a kid and what I learned from reading the book is that the movie complicates the ways in which the story discusses the Troubles in a way that the book is fundamentally unable to do. Tom Clancy is an unreflective American imperialist and Jack Ryan as weird American daddy issues and think morality is not committing murder […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Patriot Games, Tom Clancy

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:232 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Patriot Games, Tom Clancy ·
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Officially did not finish list of 2016

December 31, 2016 by ingres77 3 Comments

So, I’m totally stealing this idea from NTE. These are the books I attempted, but wasn’t able to finish (for one reason or another). I really like the idea of including these books in my Cannonball, if for no other reasons than they still warrant some discussion. In no particular order: Dracula, by Bram Stoker (4 stars) I loved Stoker’s writing, and the book had a beautifully sinister atmosphere to it. It’s not hard to understand, reading this, why the book resonated so strongly with […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: bram stoker, classic horror, Dracula, EMP, Jack Ryan, One Second After, Patriot Games, Post Apocalyptic, Tom Clancy, William Forstchen

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:110 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: bram stoker, classic horror, Dracula, EMP, Jack Ryan, One Second After, Patriot Games, Post Apocalyptic, Tom Clancy, William Forstchen ·
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