The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy

The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy: So many things I didn't know (732 words)
by lenny0 - written on 21.04.01 (Very useful, 216 readings)
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Tom Clancy is the world's top selling thriller writer, selling millions of copies of his novels in dozens of countries. So close to reality are his descriptions of espionage in the United States that questions were asked in Congress about who was leaking him information. His latest novel, The Bear and the Dragon, is 1036 pages of small print long. Having just finished the final page (and the preceding ones too, of course) I can tell you that I have learned the following vital facts: 1. Chairman Mao Zedung was a paedophile with a taste for 12 year olds. 2. American stuff is better than foreign stuff. 3. Abortion is very, very wrong. 4. ...

Bear with him... not a roaring success (1623 words)
by mpeh - written on 18.10.02 (Very useful, 514 readings)
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My first experience of Tom Clancy, other than knowing that they were the books with dodgy covers that my father read, was the film Patriot Games with Harrison Ford. I thought it was a very good film and, having since read the book, now think it a good and fairly faithful adaptation from literary fiction. Tom Clancy writes two kind of books; those with fighty fighty shooty shooty all the way through, a little like 24 was on television recently, and those which are mainly politically based. Due to the nature of the way I read I tend to prefer the slower paced political books. Last year I was on one of my charity shop book raiding expeditions, you know the ones where you go ...

The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy: Clancy Is Losing The Plot (911 words)
by kenjohn - written on 07.01.02 (Very useful, 265 readings)
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~ ~ I’m a big fan of the best selling American author Tom Clancy, and have been ever since I read his very earliest novels. I can’t be alone, as this guy regularly tops the bestseller charts with his adventure fiction novels, and not just in the good old USA, but all over the world. I think there is good reason for this, because, as a general rule of thumb, you know exactly what you’re going to get with a Clancy novel. *It will be exciting. *It will grip you from page one on. *It will be meticulously researched. *It will have a good storyline. *It will have numerous good sub-plots to the main story. *It will be ...