We're Going to Get You

Sunday Mail (UK) ^ | 9/16/2001 | Tom Clancy

[connectthedots]

They don't really understand what they've gotten themselves into. By the time they realize it will be too late.

They done messed with the wrong boys this time!

[FreedomPoster]

Ever read any of Clancy's non-fiction books about the U.S. military? There are at least six, and it is obvious he spends considerable time researching these books. This includes time with "the grunt in the street" and his officers. Check them out.

[philman_36]

You didn't get the quote right Tom ol' boy!

"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Dragons behind! Giants afore!

[raygun]

I read Submarine! and SSN.

[Sueann]

"Sueann, since you're reading Executive Orders I won't say anything about the Middle-East plot to assassinate Ryan by a mole in the Secret Service, o.k.?

Thanks, Raygun - how thoughtful of you!! But I'm at a place where I have already pretty much figured out about the plot - but I hadn't put the SS in the lineup yet.

[monkeywrench]

God Bless you and yours.

[raygun]

Oh, say no more, say no more.

Do me favor, listen to the song that precedes Revolution 9 on the White Album by the Beatles. That would make me happy.

You absolutely must read Sum of All Fear, you absolutely must. Actually, you should read Clancy's novels in order, so I'd advise you to go back, and read the ones you've not read yet. And if there's a book inbetween a few read it again.

Trust me, it'll give you a perspective that nobody else has. Well, not very many people.

Oh, and yes its tough reading. But if you read as a matter of course, after the first 10% of any of his novels - and having certain insight - you'll not be able to put his books down.

I still say he's a fiction writer, no matter how informed. One can only write about what one knows. That's why I don't write, since I know nothing about sex. D'oh, what I meant to say is...