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Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northen Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

August 6, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR12Bingo – Red So this is my second Tom Clancy book, and like the other one, Patriot Games, it’s a solid spy novel with an absolutely simplistic childish morality affixed to it nonsensically. There’s a moment in an Orson Scott Card novel where a group of white middle class people discuss how the subtleties of Western cooking, which developed because of sensitive white palates, has a kind of Enlightenment superiority (and they say all this with a kind of affected sympathy) over, in this case, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: The Hunt for Red october, Tom Clancy

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:421 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: The Hunt for Red october, Tom Clancy ·
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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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14 year old me would’ve enjoyed this. Current me? Well….not so much.

October 13, 2016 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Written in 1969, The Andromeda Strain put Michael Crichton on the literary map. Not his first novel, this is his first attempt at trying to incorporate science into the thriller genre, and it received a great deal of acclaim upon publication, and has stood the test of time as one of his better known books. And I found it largely uninteresting and dry. I’m not sure when my tastes changed, but there was a period in middle school when I devoured Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Aliens, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Rising Sun, The Andromeda Strain, Tom Clancy

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:92 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Aliens, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Rising Sun, The Andromeda Strain, Tom Clancy ·
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