Red Rabbit

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

w00t Amazon.com just came through. I be holding my copy of Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy. /me starts to read...

[LA_MERC_Cowboy_From_Hell]

Good, maybe it will silence j00 f00 for a few days....lol

Scott

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Tell me how it is dirge! I can't afford a copy for a while!

[LA_MERC_Mercy]

yeah me either...:(

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Usually around $30 or so.

LaTech

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

I got mine at amazon.com for around $14 + another $5 in shipping! w00t

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Lucky

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Lets put it this way: I once had a roomie who thougth books were a complete waste of trees and time. I gave him Hunt for Red October. He ended up reading ALL the Tom Clancy books that I had within that year. Good books? Heck yeah.

LaTech

[LA_MERC_Mercy]

yep...read all of tom clancys books that he wrote...not the net center whatever crap...

[Noxious]

im a Tom clancy n00b. I just started Patriot Games and i just bought Sum fo All Fears.

And i saw a commercial for Red Rabbit.
Isnt supposed to be Jack Ryans First adventure or sumthin?

fill me in folks, lol.

And are the Rainbow six books any good?
The games are hella kewl, but i havent read the books yet.
Fill me in here too.

Hey blake, if ya want, i can let ya borrow Sum of All Fears.

[LA_MERC_Mercy]

yeah the r6 book is great and they play a major role in The Bear and The Dragon...

though the best book of his so far IMHO is Without Remorse...it tells the story of how John Clark becomes John Clark...dont mess with him...bad to the bone

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Nokidding...that guy, one shotgun shell and a pipe...that's all he needs to make a shotgun...bad to the BONE indeed!

LaTech

[LA_MERC_Mercy]

OMG...you remember that...that was my favorite part...just to sweet man...

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

Hey Blake and Brandon, I have every Clancy book, I will bring some if you want to borrow them and read one. But be wary: Once you read one, you will look down on any unrealistic spy/military movie that comes along. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The books absolutely rock, I was introduced to them in about the same way as La Tech described and I have done the same to a couple of my friends. But stick to Clancy's books... those op center or net things are a waste of time, they're not Clancy books.

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

I, also, have ever book he has written (including some of the non-fiction and OpCenter books). I have all the Jack Ryan etc books in hard back (not including his newest as I don't have it yet!). Why hard back? They are that good. I want to keep them around for a long time to give to my son someday.

[MadOne]

they are really good books, i have read R6 at least 4 times...and i like where Clark put that guy in the decom chamber and blew him up for killing his girl..w00t he rocks. in that one.

[LA_MERC_Mercy]

that was in Without Remorse Mark...you b00n..

[MadOne]

oh yeah..but i was just saying that i liked that part...

[Noxious]

oh well, me n00b, me not know who John Clark is.
Me fan of mr. Ryan. Me saw Clear and Present Danger. me liked. lol

i mightve saw Patriot Games, but i dunno.
Im still in the first parts of the book. When i got to the part where he intervened in on the ambush in London, i was like "Woah Dude". Clancy explains that stuff in detail. Oh Yah, Jack Ryan is a total badazz.

Wat do ya mean Op center isnt Clancy?

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

Op Center is not written by Tom Clancy, he gives direction kind of like a producer for a movie.

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Clark was in Clear and Present Danger. He was the "black ops" guy that was sent down there to get Chavez out along with Jack Ryan. He is also one guy you don't want to mess with (as per the books anyway).

LaTech

[Noxious]

th dude Willem Dafoe played?

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

That is him!! Dafoe played John Clark

[Noxious]

w00t, he was awesome

[LA_MERC_eX1|eS' ch1|d]

Clark would tear out Jack's heart and eat it while it was still beating. Without Remorse was my first Clancy book, and by far the best. I have yet to find the Bear and the Dragon it's the only one I haven't read yet, excluding the new one.

[MadOne]

The Bear and the Dragon is good. I am reading that one now..good book.

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

I'm about 130 pages into Red Rabbit (it's 600+ long) and it rocks so far.

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Dirge,
Alicia bought the book for me for no real reason. I guess I can read it now!!!

LaTech

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

w00t I'll race ya!

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Dang...me starting with a 160+ page deficit....You're on! Now...where did I put my book?

LaTech

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Dirge,

Whats the update man! Are you finished with the book yet? As far as I am concerned, this is CLASSIC Tom Clancy...very well written and thought out. As per the norm, it takes a while to get to the story part of the book, but the lead up to the story is important. It weeds out the non-readers frmo the readers.

LaTech

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

D00d This book r0x0rs. The Rabbit is running right now. I got about 180 pages left. I hope to finish it this week supposing I get the time!

It is Classisc Tom Clancy. This book reminds me a lot of the Cardinal of the Kremlin.

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

Thats what I was thinking also. I am 500 pages into it or so and IT ROCKS!!!

LaTech

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My friend finished it and told me i needed to get it said a lot of mumbling about it but i want to read.

[[[Corvette]]]

When I get a Clancy book, I read it non-stop. Usually stay up all night the night I get it. I'm a pretty fast reader, so I can finish it all in one night. Only bad part of that is then I gotta wait months for the next one to come out. Same way with the "Left Behind" books. I read the first 9 in 2 weeks, and that includes the time when I finished one and had to go buy the next one. I read the latest on the night I bought it. Now I gotta wait months for the next one to come out. Grrrr.

[Noxious]

is Red Rabbit in Paperback yet?
if not, im gettint he hardcover.

im still tryn to get thru Patriot Games.
I love how he ownz0rz the dudes tryin to hold up the heir to the throne in the beginning.
clancy ownz!

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

Bah! I'm a very fast reader, but I have yet to ever find a book that can keep my attention like that. I usually can't go more than 2 hours reading before I get bored and have to change activities. BTW Red Rabbit is almost gone, I have about 20 pages to go. It is a very good book IMHO. It is not nearly as action packed as some of Clancy's other books, in fact there is much less action than normal. However, Clancy takes the opportunity to give a classical analysis of some of the major failings with Communism and a glimpse into the political world of the Soviet Union and the basis for its final demise in the 80's. All in all it is a quality novel which stimulates a little bit of higher thinking. Unfortunately, the climax is rather anti-climactic IMHO.