| Re: Authors who don't know a burro from an ass in the ground [message #261161] |
Di, 02 Mai 2006 10:31 |
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Richard Heathfield wrote:
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> So presumably you worked your way through not only Hunt for Red
> October but also Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, Sum of All
> Fears, Debt of Honour, and any I missed, without giving up, even
> though - to use your phrase - they didn't "hold up".
Yup, I was a spotty teenage lad (TM) at the time. Debt of Honor was enough
to turn off even a spotty teenage lad with a neurotically completist
determination to carry on with the series. Says it all really.
I maintain that they don't hold up to adult inspection, except Red October.
Peter
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| Re: Authors who don't know a burro from an ass in the ground [message #261237 ] |
Mi, 03 Mai 2006 01:08 |
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Peter Ellis wrote:
> Richard Heathfield wrote:
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>>So presumably you worked your way through not only Hunt for Red
>>October but also Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, Sum of All
>>Fears, Debt of Honour, and any I missed, without giving up, even
>>though - to use your phrase - they didn't "hold up".
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> Yup, I was a spotty teenage lad (TM) at the time. Debt of Honor was enough
> to turn off even a spotty teenage lad with a neurotically completist
> determination to carry on with the series. Says it all really.
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> I maintain that they don't hold up to adult inspection, except Red October.
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> Peter
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I found myself in the same position, though perhaps a bit older. Clancy
went from realism (as opposed to reality I guess) to you've got to be
kidding. Too bad really as several of the early ones were ripping good
yarns.
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| Re: Authors who don't know a burro from an ass in the ground [message #261258 ] |
Mi, 03 Mai 2006 02:49 |
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On Tue, 2 May 2006 09:31:21 +0100, "Peter Ellis" <pjie2 [at] cam.ac.uk>
wrote:
>Richard Heathfield wrote:
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>> So presumably you worked your way through not only Hunt for Red
>> October but also Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, Sum of All
>> Fears, Debt of Honour, and any I missed, without giving up, even
>> though - to use your phrase - they didn't "hold up".
>
>Yup, I was a spotty teenage lad (TM) at the time. Debt of Honor was enough
>to turn off even a spotty teenage lad with a neurotically completist
>determination to carry on with the series. Says it all really.
i had a friend who loved the series, loaned me the books one by one -
I'm the kind thats usually starved for books (in the 3 years i've been
in this town, i've virtually exhausted the entire fiction section,
including large print, of anything that vaguely takes my interest) so
i toko em, read em - think they took about 2-3 days each. (he was a
good rfiend for getting rid of my boredom - he also started me off on
bab5, by loaning me the first two seasosn 6-tapes a wee)
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>I maintain that they don't hold up to adult inspection, except Red October.
his one pretty decent book, been trying to live up to it ever since.
Some people don't even get that far, I got one a month or two back
with was mindbogglingly bad. We're talking hubbard-bad. called Angel
station. Utter dross. one of maybe 5 books i've actually thrown down
in disgust and vowed never to read again.
now, for good millitary action, i do like my Dale Brown books. (neatly
bringing Dan Brown and Tom Clancy back together) The only turnoff some
might have, is that its mainly chair force, and heavy bombers at that,
rather than the sexy fighters usually written about, or the chickens
of the sea avoiding everyone in the name of truth, justice, and media
conlgomeration profits.
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>Peter
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