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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
It is hard to believe that this is a debut title. Full of great detail that makes you feel like you could be right there along the major players. As well as truly encapsulating what I imagine the late cold war truly felt like.
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What you’d expect, If you’ve seen the movie. Very commercial, both in terms of the prose work, character work, and dialogue, as well as the outright propaganda I figured was injected at Hollywood. The Russians, aside from one or two, are basically bumbling fools shackled to a system constantly referenced as terrible without the lens being turned to the west. No wonder it was made into a movie, really.
Plot wise, it’s pretty simple and fairly fun. It’s also really packed full of detail that felt well researched and believable to me. The intricacies and verisimilitude of the military and the various machines in use feel well realized. That feels like the secret sauce. A lot of what is opaque but interesting is gone into, sometimes shoving unbelievable dialogue into the characters to do so. The classic characters telling each other things they already know, things like that.
But it is very consumable. Big as it is, and it’s quite chunky, it goes by very quickly, which is what I’m looking for these days. I’m not actually sure why I started with Red October, having seen the Jack Ryan movies; this is the third in the series, apparently. I think I thought this was the first. Whoops.
Plot wise, it’s pretty simple and fairly fun. It’s also really packed full of detail that felt well researched and believable to me. The intricacies and verisimilitude of the military and the various machines in use feel well realized. That feels like the secret sauce. A lot of what is opaque but interesting is gone into, sometimes shoving unbelievable dialogue into the characters to do so. The classic characters telling each other things they already know, things like that.
But it is very consumable. Big as it is, and it’s quite chunky, it goes by very quickly, which is what I’m looking for these days. I’m not actually sure why I started with Red October, having seen the Jack Ryan movies; this is the third in the series, apparently. I think I thought this was the first. Whoops.
Après avoir lu le livre Sur Ordre de Tom Clancy. J'ai eu le goût d'en lire plus sur son fameux personnage Jack Ryan (interprété au cinéma par Alec Baldwyn, Harrison Ford et Ben Affleck). Je suis allé voir sur internet et j'ai vu que son premier livre est Octobre Rouge.
Pour résumer, je dois dire que c'est l'histoire d'un capitaine de sous-marin soviétique qui décide de passer à l'Ouest. C'est alors la course pour savoir qui des Américains ou des Soviétiques le trouvera en premier. C'est alors qu'intervient Jack Ryan. Celui ci tentera de tout faire pour éviter une troisième guerre mondiale.
J'ai adoré ce livre parce qu'il ma gardé sur les nerds tout le long de la lecture. Il y a plusieurs petites intrigues que l'on est seulement capable de comprendre à la fin J'adore ce thriller politique parce que tout là -dedans est très réaliste.
Pour ce qui est des points négatif, c'est que tout ce passe confiné dans des navires ou des sous-marins. Ça ne laisse donc pas beaucoup de place à de l'action.
Je le conseille donc à tous les amateurs de politique et de la guerre froide.
Pour résumer, je dois dire que c'est l'histoire d'un capitaine de sous-marin soviétique qui décide de passer à l'Ouest. C'est alors la course pour savoir qui des Américains ou des Soviétiques le trouvera en premier. C'est alors qu'intervient Jack Ryan. Celui ci tentera de tout faire pour éviter une troisième guerre mondiale.
J'ai adoré ce livre parce qu'il ma gardé sur les nerds tout le long de la lecture. Il y a plusieurs petites intrigues que l'on est seulement capable de comprendre à la fin J'adore ce thriller politique parce que tout là -dedans est très réaliste.
Pour ce qui est des points négatif, c'est que tout ce passe confiné dans des navires ou des sous-marins. Ça ne laisse donc pas beaucoup de place à de l'action.
Je le conseille donc à tous les amateurs de politique et de la guerre froide.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Clearly well written and well researched. Clancy did a good job balancing the technical with the dramatic. His grasp of how the navy works/worked and of naval history makes him ideal for this sort of novel.
My only beef with this book is that having watched the movie first (and been raised watching similar action movies), I feel like the last quarter or third of the book suffered from drawing out the conclusion too long. The compressed timeline adds to the tension, and once the book hit the climax--or what I thought was the climax--Clancy spent too much time trying to build the suspense back up to what I think would probably be the *real* climax, had I not already known the plot from the movie.
Basically? Read the book first, otherwise you'll get bored before the end and take three weeks to finish when it should have taken you three days.
My only beef with this book is that having watched the movie first (and been raised watching similar action movies), I feel like the last quarter or third of the book suffered from drawing out the conclusion too long. The compressed timeline adds to the tension, and once the book hit the climax--or what I thought was the climax--Clancy spent too much time trying to build the suspense back up to what I think would probably be the *real* climax, had I not already known the plot from the movie.
Basically? Read the book first, otherwise you'll get bored before the end and take three weeks to finish when it should have taken you three days.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Just go watch the movie. This book is enjoyable but so much of it is taken up with technical descriptions and scenes of American politicians and the US Fleet pranking those pesky Russians. There is some good suspenseful and tense moments but this is a fairly long book and much of it is taken up with sidetracks. These sidetracks aren’t pointless but I believe the story would have been much tighter and exciting without them. The movie catches all the high points so just watch it instead.