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I bet he still cashes a damn good royalty check.
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That last one he wrote, Dragon's something, something Dragon, whatever it was called. . . unreadable. It was so bad, I suspect he didn't even write it.
Shik
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The Bear And The Dragon. Written because he liked Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan SO MUCH in the movie version of The Sum Of All Fears that he's started doing Jack Ryan, Jr. books just so they can be made into movies starring Ben Affleck.
Clearly, he is a pod person.
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I even found some of Clancy's more popular earlier novels, such as The Hunt for Red October, hard to read. I haven't seen so many consecutive sentences ending in "such-and-such said" or "said such-and-such" since junior high school. Generally good ideas, poor execution.
Michael Crichton's Plot-O-Matic-produced novels caused me to lose interest in his books too.
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Da_bang80
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I haven't gotten around to Red October, I'm woking my way through Executive Decisions right now. I don't much care for his Jack Ryan books, or his Jack Jr. books. But I love reading his John Clark work (Without Remorse, Clear and Present Danger, and Rainbow Six)
quote: Now they're all video games for the XBox.
Actually only one of his Xbox games were based on an actual book (Rainbow Six) the rest are spinoffs. Most likely they took his ideas and made them into games instead of making his books into games.
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