# Recommend a good Tom Clancy book, and answer this question for me.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356 "2002-12-08T20:42:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356/41 "2002-12-10T09:24:18Z")

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I would recommend ‘Red Storm Rising’, and don’t get me wrong, it was a GREAT read, but the ending grates on me.

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**Author:** ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356/42 "2002-12-10T15:33:20Z")

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No doubt Tom Clancy is a good author , I read all his books and if ur a TC fan , just go read Ice Station , Temple , Conetst and Area 7 all books by Matthew Reilly . They are a lot more fast paced than TC’s books whihc tend to dull in the middle and u begin to wonder why isnt the hell anyting happening!!!

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356/43 "2002-12-10T16:10:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ISiddiqui \*  
> \*\*The best Tom Clancy book is without a doubt, _The Sum of All Fears_. Don’t let the movie fool you, they changed it because of PC. The book is great (and doesn’t deal with Russian fascists). \*\*

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Best-- no way. He was well on his decline at that point.

**Red Storm Rising** is the best Clancy by far. No annoying ass Jack Ryan, political mouthpiece for Clancy’s conservative worldviews. No eye rollingly implausible plot twists.

Just a solid book. Everything after Sum is even worse.

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**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356/44 "2002-12-10T16:16:41Z")

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oops I think a mildly naughty word made it into my post-- sorry. ☹

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-tom-clancy-book-and-answer-this-question-for-me/141356/45 "2002-12-10T16:32:16Z")

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“Conservative” is more than a _mildly_ naughty word, **elf6c**!  
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