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Title: Longer isn't necessarily better
Review: For the first time, a Tom Clancy novel is dragging me as a reader. And, getting dragged over 1000-plus pages of mediocre story telling is really chafing. The spelling mistakes are annoying and all these knowing looks between Jack Ryan and his crowd is cloying. The good guys are too good and almost cartoonishly overdrawn; the bad guys are too bad and paper thin. The Bear and the Dragon doesn't measure up in terms of pace, suspense or character development with my Clancy favorites: Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin, and Clear and Present Danger. Do I detect that Tom is tired of this line of novels? After reading The Bear and The Dragon, I'm thinking I will not be rushing out, as I did last week for this one, for the next Clancy novel. I'm disappointed.
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