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Title: Disappointing...
Review: After Rainbow Six, I told myself I would never read another Tom Clancy novel...but I gave him one more chance. I think I wasted my money. The Bear and the Dragon is dreadful slow to develop, wooden characters with wooden thoughts and wooden dialogue, too many sub-plots, anachronistic (has Mr Clancy been to China recently --- his China is not today's China at all). What's happened to Jack Ryan? Where's our decisive man of action gone? The book is far too long for the story. It needs a good editor with a sharp pen.
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