hunt or red october vs patriot games vs clear present danger vs sum of all fears.

which is your favorite.. or do u dislike all of them? im partial to sum of all fears and cpd.

In reply to barnca:

Liked all of them - IMHO Sum of All Fears was the best of that group.

But my most favorite T.C. novel was Red Storm Rising.

October....he got less entertaining (to me, anyway) in successive novels.

Is this a trick question?

HfRO followed by RSR.

Clancy will go down as one of the biggest disappointments in popular literature. All his stuff went to crap when he decided that all his plot lines involved redoing WWII. Personally, I'm quite confident he had everything after RSR ghostwritten.

WITHOUT REMORSE is my favorite.... the ship I served on in Nam plays a significant role in the book

love all of them (except RED RABBIT) didn't think much of that one

Any where Clark was the main character.

is this about books or movies? i haven't read any of the books, but i've seed Red October. it had Sean Connery portraying a Russian sub captain with a Scottish accent. it doesn't get much more hardcore than that.

Kia_racer wrote: Any where Clark was the main character.

Yup, Clark is The Man. I think Willem Dafoe was not a good choice to play him. I see him more as a John Everyman that you might cross by accident, not realizing his true background and skills. And he'd let you live because he's intelligent enough to know it wasn't intentional and he also wouldn't want to expose his true self unnecessarily.

So who would be a good choice to play such a character? Matt Damon, good as he would be, won't work because of his Bourne persona, sorry.

I have all of them and have read them several times. I like them all but the best of all them is Without Remorse. Second place would go to Patriot Games

Without Remorse is probably the best one.

Which is surprising, it's the least "military" of his main ones.

Great books, just do not read one after the other, the story line tends to blend into one

aussiesmg wrote: Great books, just do not read one after the other, the story line tends to blend into one

There is only one story line. You just have to read them in the right order. Mr Clark was in Hunt for red october (the first book written) but that wasn't clarified until Clear and Present Danger, I think.

My fave is`Without Remorse, but I've read them all several times.

Now. If the question was movies, I liked Harrison Ford, did not like Ben Affleck, and thought that Red October was the best movie by far.

Red October. Book or movie. I heart Marko Ramius

If we're talking movies Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and then Sum of All Fears. If we're talking books, my favorite was Rainbow Six, followed by Red Storm Rising.

I like how james bond learned to hide his British accent and act all Russian...probably worked great to throw off the bad guys!

As an ex-submariner I like Red October. The characters in the movies are a bit different than those in the books, ala Williamn DeFoe.

Some of the scenes depicted in Hunt for Red October were removed, Tom Clancy's information about submarines was a little too close to home, they made him change things.

Dan

I have read every book in the Clark/Ryan timeline, and Red Storm Rising is my favorite. Looks like the new Jack Jr. story, Dead or Alive, will be published in december, It has only been a 7 year wait.

I got "Teeth of the Tiger" a while back but I haven't read it yet. Is it any good?

Sean rocks. Whatever he's in wins...

neon4891 wrote: I have read every book in the Clark/Ryan timeline, and Red Storm Rising is my favorite. Looks like the new Jack Jr. story, Dead or Alive, will be published in december, It has only been a 7 year wait.

ill have to put that on my list.

Even though I have Monaco on tivo and Dover on Fox, I may just have to throw in my Hunt for Red October dvd for the afternoon. One of the rare cases where both the book and movie are good. I always wanted them to make Red Storm Rising and Debt of Honor into movies but it aint happened yet.

Red October read like a book that had to be written. It had an urgency to it that disappeared in his later books. I do agree that Without Remorse is a good one, in large part because of the sheer amount of Clark :)

He needs an editor. Not just because the books are long - I've read all of them - but because I don't think anyone actually reads the complete final product. The same idea, explanations and even phrases will pop up again and again in a book. It's just lazy and annoying.

My favorite was Without Remorse.

Awesome. That is all.

Hal wrote: I have all of them and have read them several times. I like them all but the best of all them is Without Remorse. Second place would go to Patriot Games

I agree 100%, but Stephen Hunters work is better.