Tom Clancy. RIP

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[mcjwills]

Sad day one of my favourite authors

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

In commercial terms a highly successful author to put it mildly - mainly in field of naval fiction. I have read a few of his books over the years, but after a while the constant celebration of US power and technology became a bit too much for my tastes.

Edited 2 October, 2013 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE

[Sheaf Saint]

Read a few of his books in my younger days, and enjoyed the numerous film adaptations - most notably Patriot Games (I even enjoyed The Sum of All Fears despite it starring Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan.) Took me months to get through The Bear and The Dragon (I read quite slowly!) but it was well worth it... An epic story on a grand scale.

 

RIP Tom.

[Batman]

Hunt for red october.

awesome film

[Sheaf Saint]

Hunt for red october.

awesome film

 

I wouldn't know the first thing about submarines so it's good to know that somebody with experience of the subject matter thinks that. I guess because Clancy himself served in the military and that accuracy and attention to detail was important to him.

[alpine_saint]

Hunt for red october.

awesome film

 

Book was better (was impossible to put down), but writing a script from that was probably a bloody nightmare. The book version of Sum of All Fears is also brilliant.

 

Personally felt the interwoven threads in the books after that got too complex.

[ecuk268]

I wouldn't know the first thing about submarines so it's good to know that somebody with experience of the subject matter thinks that. I guess because Clancy himself served in the military and that accuracy and attention to detail was important to him.

 

He didn't serve in the military. He was rejected because he was near-sighted.

 

He sold insurance before he found fame as an author.

[Sheaf Saint]

He didn't serve in the military. He was rejected because he was near-sighted.

 

He sold insurance before he found fame as an author.

 

Ah, I stand corrected. I was always under the impression that he gained all of his insights into military hardware from having served himself. He obviously carried out some very thorough research before writing then.

[pap]

Pretty much the only author that could temporarily turn me into a right-wing militaristic tub-thumper.

 

Most stuff he wrote on his own was ace. Collaborations, not so much.

 

Jack Ryan was a great invention. Would love to see some remakes with one guy playing him, and in chronological order.

[View From The Top]

His early books, published when I was in the mob, were utterly fantastic. His latter books were disappointingly awful.

 

Hunt for Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Red Storm Rising & Sum of all Fears are some of my favourite books.

[Batman]

Red October was his first book of the jack ryan series and he just hoped to sell a few thousand copies.

 

by the end of his writings of all his books. he was supremely rich

great author

[mightysaints]

Red storm rising epic book

[pap]

Red October was his first book of the jack ryan series and he just hoped to sell a few thousand copies.

 

by the end of his writings of all his books. he was supremely rich

great author

 

Chronologically I think it might be second or third. Patriot Games is first, iirc.