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Title: Wish I had read the other reviews before wasting my money
Review: I bought this book with great anticipation as I am (or was) a great Clancy fan, having bought ALL of his previous books. What a let down! Clancy is trying to be something that he obviously isn't. He tries to over-build his characters (one whole page of a character's thought processes is not uncommon - of course, liberally laced with vulgarities. he should leave the pseudo-literature work to the experts). I am appalled at his blatant stereotyping of China (fried panda penises? People in Mao suits roaming the streets? pleassseee...have you, Mr Clancy, visited China lately?). His writing borders on bigotry and perhaps crosses the line into racism. Ahh...the quintessential American right-wing cheer-leader, advocating hegemony; unabashedly ethnocentric. George W. would have been proud.
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