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Title: What Happened To Jack?
Review: Although I made my way through The Bear and the Dragon out of an absurd sense of loyalty to and fondness for the character of Jack Ryan, and for what I knew would ultimately be an exciting world-on-the-edge-of-disaster tale, I cursed Clancy far too regularly throughout the book. How did it happen that all his characters have come to share the same endlessly repeated attitudes? Could every man in the military worth his salt truly despise the "tree-huggers" and think of women with patriarchal disdain? Even if that were true, must we endure countless repetitions of internal dialogues, irrelevant to the plot, relating to a rehash of Clancy's values that have contaminated all his worthy characters and succeeded in erasing their individuality? Stop the pontificating! Shame on you, Tom Clancy, for turning a wonderful character like Ryan into a flat, faceless drone indistinguishable from all the other single-minded drones in this book. Where in the world was your editor???
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