Posted on 06/12/2013 11:12:15 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
This looks freaking SICK! I watched this yesterday.
Too bad Jack Bauer and Tom Clancy couldn’t work a script or two..
Jack Bauer was basically done by Vince Flynn. His books are excellent. These days Clancy books are (With) books. Tom Clancy /with/ Joe Blow.
I stay away from those (With) books. 95% of the James Patterson books are (With) books too these days.
This is a game, not a movie?
I remember reading a Clancy book that had Arabs flying a jet into the Capitol building in D.C. I thought it was such a ridiculous idea.
He was Japanese, not Arabic.
Actually, in the book it was a Japanese pilot flying an airliner into the Capitol. (In the book, there was a trade war between the US and Japan that escalated into a shooting war that the US won.) But I remember when I saw the planes flying into the twin towers thinking about that book, and wasn't surprised to hear that one of the planes that day was supposed to hit either the Capitol or the White House (Flight 93).
Yep, Executive Orders, 1996 a great read.
Clancy was an excellent writer, became super wealthy, fat and lazy.
I have everyone of his original, hard cover books but stopped buying them after his 2003 turd, named "The Teeth of The Tiger".
Clancy's best novels were 800-1,000 pages, well written, well researched {military technology} with multiple plots and sub plots.
His last really excellent book was "The Bear and the Dragon" written in 2000, after that, his books became sloppy and bad reading.
I have stopped reading his latest junk.
Actually I think it was Debt of Honor.
IMO one of Clancy’s best. At the time Clinton was in a trade war w/ Japan and the book was very timely.
The sequel Executive Orders sucked. A yawner. That’s my opinion anyway.
Clancy’s books now are written by who knows and I guess he puts his name on the cover and collects a royalty. I don’t touch them.
Vince Flynn is Da Man.
I believe I started Bear and the Dragon, but I never finished it. I ended up skipping large chunks of Executive Orders since it was a fictitious second Gulf War (I read it after OIF had already happened) and the description of the Ebola harvesting was constant. I swear he was getting paid by the word in that one. Debt of Honor and Rainbow Six were great, though.
So is Brad Thor. I like his stuff.
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