Posted by BHitman at 204.23.201.134 on November 16, 2001 at 12:45:57:
In Reply to: Reading Clancy... posted by TheMojoPin on November 16, 2001 at 12:34:54:
: ...is like suffering through an episode of modern "Star Trek": the writers' pound you with technobabble to maks the fact they have absolutely no narrative flow or skill...I don't have a problem with the scripts to Clancy's films, I find them very enjoyable to watch...but when I went to read the books, I had to wade through page after page of government lingo and millitayr techno-jargon to get to an actual story...I'm all for technical accuracy, but Clancy is so enamored with being some kind of government/millitary expert that he has to overwhlem the reader with the fact he just got the new edition of Jane's or something...look, for people into that, hey, great, have fun, I'm just saying I can't sit down with a Clancy book and expect any kind of quality, coherrent story bury admist all the techno, politcal-hooplah...
: -TMP