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From: TOG on 9 Nov 2009 04:36 On 9 Nov, 08:56, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > > J. Clarke <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > > >>http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125539,00.html > > > Oh, right. Thanks for that. So he found a younger model. > > > *Sigh*. Bet she doesn't give him much tanks. > > Yep. And around the time that they started having trouble his writing went > to Hell. I never thought of him as a writer of great literature, but by God he could pace a story, plot it well, and keep you turning the pages. I found his non-fiction military stuff full of interesting detail, but appallingly written. Haven't read any of his stuff in years. I mean, is he still writing thrillers?
From: J. Clarke on 9 Nov 2009 06:33 TOG(a)Toil wrote: > On 9 Nov, 08:56, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >> The Older Gentleman wrote: >>> J. Clarke <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >> >>>> http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125539,00.html >> >>> Oh, right. Thanks for that. So he found a younger model. >> >>> *Sigh*. Bet she doesn't give him much tanks. >> >> Yep. And around the time that they started having trouble his >> writing went to Hell. > > I never thought of him as a writer of great literature, but by God he > could pace a story, plot it well, and keep you turning the pages. > > I found his non-fiction military stuff full of interesting detail, but > appallingly written. > > Haven't read any of his stuff in years. I mean, is he still writing > thrillers? Trying to. The last one I reread was "Without Remorse", but that's more because his main character and I share a name I think. The one after that, that had the Japanese wiping out the US legislative and executive branches with a 747, resulting in Jack Ryan becoming President, was so over the top that it had become silly. I think I read one more after that and it was kind of plodding--I remember distinctly that a point came when I realized that reading it was work and not play. After that I lost interest in him. I understand that he has a new one out in which Jack Ryan's kid has grown up and become an assassin or some such.
From: TOG on 9 Nov 2009 07:11 On 9 Nov, 11:33, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > TOG(a)Toil wrote: > > > Haven't read any of his stuff in years. I mean, is he still writing > > thrillers? > > Trying to. The last one I reread was "Without Remorse", but that's more > because his main character and I share a name I think. The one after that, > that had the Japanese wiping out the US legislative and executive branches > with a 747, resulting in Jack Ryan becoming President, was so over the top > that it had become silly. Oh, I remember that one. Like you, that was when I gave up, and didn't bother finishing the book. And it was implausible. But he got one prescient fact right: the idea of deliberately suicide-crashing a commercial jet into a building....
From: J. Clarke on 9 Nov 2009 09:21 TOG(a)Toil wrote: > On 9 Nov, 11:33, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >> TOG(a)Toil wrote: > > >> >>> Haven't read any of his stuff in years. I mean, is he still writing >>> thrillers? >> >> Trying to. The last one I reread was "Without Remorse", but that's >> more because his main character and I share a name I think. The one >> after that, that had the Japanese wiping out the US legislative and >> executive branches with a 747, resulting in Jack Ryan becoming >> President, was so over the top that it had become silly. > > Oh, I remember that one. Like you, that was when I gave up, and didn't > bother finishing the book. > > And it was implausible. But he got one prescient fact right: the idea > of deliberately suicide-crashing a commercial jet into a building.... Yep. And I do wonder if that's where they got the idea.
From: S'mee on 9 Nov 2009 10:13
On Nov 9, 12:18 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > J. Clarke <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > >http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125539,00.html > > Oh, right. Thanks for that. So he found a younger model. > > *Sigh*. Bet she doesn't give him much tanks. She needs ot shop at this site then: http://www.armyjeeps.net/armor1.htm sadly I know which ones I can put plates on and legally drive on the road and which I can't. I also know which you can take fishing...though you'll scare the fish away. |