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Tom Clancy, author of Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October and many other great novels, has died at the age of 66. So long, Mr. Clancy, and thank you for many, many hours of adventure and intrigue.
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Agree!
I picked up "Red Storm Rising" one day in a bookshop; waiting for a flight.
At my destination; I started reading; and finished the book in one sitting. Few authors can manage to immerse you in a world so completely that time doesn't seem to pass.
Thanks Tom; for all the happy hours.
P
sad ...
Dying at 66 seems awfully young to me. Sorry to see him go, he was definitely a master writer.
Agreed
I was sad to hear this, I've spent many a day reading his books in the past. I know I've read his series several times through. He was always one of the few authors that wrote enough length to his tales to actually take me more than a couple hours to finish. Definitely a sad day.
Tom Clancy
I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
I have a large collection of his works and he was a masterful writer, I wish I was even half so good as he.
This loss I shall take as a challenge... That I should (somehow) increase my own abilities hopefully sufficiently that should he read my works from somewhere out there, that he would not be depressed by my inadequacies but might feel that from his works, I have learned at least a little.
Fair thee well, Mr. Clancy (and don't forget to write.)
Anesidora
R.I.P mr. Clancy
Many enjoyable hours spent with Jack Ryan, John Clark, and others. Always looked forward to his next book. I understand one more that he just finished will be published in December. Then no more.
Rami
RAMI
There might be one more
He had a novel, Search and Destroy, scheduled for release in July of last year, but it was cancelled. It was co-authored by Peter Telep, and was a sequel to the previous year's Against All Enemies. No explanation was ever given for the cancellation, but it's my understanding that it was complete at the time. If so, I imagine it will make it to bookstores in the near future.
Bree
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy
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The Hunt for Red October
I started that book and was glued to it until I finished. It was that good and really held my interest. Perhaps his later books didn't grab me like that, but I'll always remember how awed I was by the Jack Ryan book where Jack revealed the missile firing keys to the Red October to set up a Russian spy. :)
Grover
Tom Clancy
I have a first edition copy of Red Storm Rising that I bought through the US Naval Academy Press (yes, that really is where the first run was printed) that I bought when I was in school. I fell in love with it, and have everything that Tom Clancy has written since, both fiction and non-fiction. He was a master of the craft, and even foresaw 911 in one of his books where he wrote about a Japanese pilot crashing a 747 into the US Capital building.
I wasn't able to find out just what he died of, but 66 is a relatively young age.
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Tom Clancy never served in
Tom Clancy never served in the military. And yet, his writings were so realistic it was amazing. Former submariners who played cat and mouse with Soviet subs during the Cold War, say that he captured the very essence of what it was like on a submarine then in The Hunt For Red October. He was given tours on navy vessels and treated warmly by the military. But this was after he wrote The Hunt For Red October. His research was exhaustive and he just seemed to get it. On top of that, he was a great narrative writer. He is missed already.
_Bev_