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Title: Disappointed
Review: Clancy is an extraordinary storyteller, but The Bear and the Dragon doesn't cut it. 700 pages of buildup to one battle that fails to create any suspense. The few scenes with the Navy, are short and unexciting. The Air Force is tremendously outnumbered, but the air battles lack any real suspense. The tank battles are so one sided that I wonder why Clancy didn't simply say, "All the Chinese tanks get killed." and be done with it. That is the way you want a real battle to go, I'm sure, but this is entertainment, not real life. The Chinese politicians are so dense that never once do they make a correct decision. And like most of his last few books every character he's ever written is back. It feels like a high school reunion. People you didn't really care that much about in the first place are back, and now you have to spend a couple hours with them.
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