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Title: Terror at 1152 Pages
Review: Tom Clancy's magnum opus, The Bear and the Dragon (starring movie hero Jack Ryan), is rollicking good fun for about the first 400 or so pages. Around then, the rollicking fun subsides for a couple of hundred pages, but then - Whammo! - we are back in the action. It is a testament to clancy's skill as a thriller writer that he can write over one thousands pages and have most of them not ... . Some could say that this book lacks realism. I say, why look for realism in a Tom Clancy book. You're looking for action, adventure, detailed descriptions of weapons, stock military characters, and the president of the United States Jack Ryan kicking some serious international ... . That's why you read Tom Clancy. That's why I read Tom Clancy. And that's why you should read The Bear and the Dragon. Get to it.
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