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Title: Laughably bad
Review: OK, I admit that I've read every novel Clancy has written. (God help me.) But they have gotten progressively worse, and this latest, Bear and the Dragon, is so bad it is insulting to the reader. It is monumentally ignorant, and the only thing worse than the writing is the editing. (Was there any editing?) All of the characters -- regardless of nationality or position -- speak in the same tiresome, moralistic, pseudo-chummy voice. The same phrases (...."that fellow"...) must appear in the book at least a hundred times. The cartoonish quality of the characters and the dialogue is nothing new, but there is little to none of the military/espionage nitty-gritty detail that made his earliest novels a success.The book is a complete waste of time, and the only reason its on the best-seller list is because of the sheer momentum of Clancy's name. It won't be lasting much longer if he puts out more like this.If you have to have a Clancy fix, go back and read Red October.
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