Kevin Tarr wrote: > Picked up Tom Clancy's TotT last week from the workplace library*. Started > okay, but mostly it sucked. The ending was very bad. It needed another five > chapters to really finish the story but I'm sure the next book will cover that. > > If I had friends who repeated the same things that much during > conversations (Git-R-Done) I'd punch them. > > I saw one blatant error, where a city name one one page was different on > another. Five word usage errors, they passed the spellcheck but used the > wrong word. Ex: list instead of lust. (Now that I think about it, it may > have been intentional but there were others that were wrong.) And a few > diversions that just could not be true. Not plot points, but chapter filler > situations that the author obviously knew nothing about. <snip>
-------------------- No Fair!! I sent the following in August. This Tiger Has No Teeth I just finished reading Tom Clancy's latest "real" (not "Op Center," etc, collaborations) novel, "The Teeth of the Tiger." I have to admit I'm a Clancy fan. I read "The Hunt for Red October" on a red-eye from DC to Las Vegas right after the book came out in paperback. I wanted to sleep on that flight, but the book wouldn't let me. Over the years, I've looked forward to his books and, for the most part, haven't been disappointed, until now. "The Teeth of the Tiger" is a slow, ponderous story that takes forever to get to any real action, which is over as quickly as it arrives and brushed under the rug. Without it being too much of a spoiler, I'll say that after the inevitable terrorist attack, the story goes into a revenge mode of illegal killings (murders) by the good guys. They justify their actions pretty much by saying "some people need killing." The main characters are related to former president Jack Ryan, who is referred to in the book as "Dad" and "Uncle Jack." These characters spend more time on three-mile runs in Virginia, and then driving a Ferrari around Europe talking about the good food they're missing than actually "operating." I'll say again, the story is slow and ponderous, perhaps in an attempt to build suspense, but, instead, it builds boredom. The plot is contrived and the conclusion, while screaming loudly and clearly "sequel", is empty and unsatisfying. This is Clancy's least enjoyable novel. IMO, of course George A _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
