Hunt for red October is far more thrilling if not as realistic. The characters are far more unique and interesting, though jack Ryan and anything navy/CIA is just propaganda. At least it is fun to read propaganda.
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neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoRSR is the only Clancy book I’ve read. Is it comparable to his other books?
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The other books are far more plot and character focused, less exacting military stuff. If you like RSR, you might like the following books even more. It’s an outlier, but not too far, from his other books.
DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I think I remember liking Rainbow Six around the same time and I liked his books until he started tag teaming with other authors which was probably around 2000?
Based on that I imagine his books from 1986-2000 are “similar” enough.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The old school Rainbow Six games were my gateway drug to the book.
The plot is essentially “what if tree huggers went batshit and weaponized a virus” so take that for what you will but the training and operations in that book were facinating to me. I saw it as world building for one of my favorite games of the time
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Yeah, all of the Rainbow Six plotlines are about people conservatives hate.