View From The Top Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjwills Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 Sad day one of my favourite authors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 Hunt for red october. awesome film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 2 October, 2013 Share Posted 2 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 3 October, 2013 Share Posted 3 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 3 October, 2013 Share Posted 3 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 3 October, 2013 Share Posted 3 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 4 October, 2013 Share Posted 4 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 5 October, 2013 Author Share Posted 5 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 5 October, 2013 Share Posted 5 October, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightysaints Posted 5 October, 2013 Share Posted 5 October, 2013 Red storm rising epic book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 5 October, 2013 Share Posted 5 October, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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