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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
When I thought that this book was going into the standard "Falling Action" portion with ~100 pages left, I was curious how it was going to make a simple event take that long. Well, I was wrong. The action didn't fall until ~10 pages left in the book, and I'm glad of it.
The Hunt For Red October has made me genuinely understand why almost every reader I know has a couple Tom Clancy's on the shelf. It grabbed you hard by the collar, and never let go. I'm not a military man myself, but all the action that occurred seems entirely possible, especially during the Cold War.
Will recommend enthusiastically.
The Hunt For Red October has made me genuinely understand why almost every reader I know has a couple Tom Clancy's on the shelf. It grabbed you hard by the collar, and never let go. I'm not a military man myself, but all the action that occurred seems entirely possible, especially during the Cold War.
Will recommend enthusiastically.
Nagyon sokat hallottam már a szerzőről és nem csak a könyvek, hanem filmek, játékok kapcsán is, gondoltam megnézem magamnak az elsőként megjelent és máig egyik leghíresebb művét. Kicsit másra számítottam, de tetszett. Mi sem mutatja jobban, mint az, hogy az egyébként elég vaskos köteten észrevétlenül gyorsan jutottam túl. A nyelvezet nekem néhol elég archaikus, már-már modoros volt, de erősen gyanítom, hogy ez elsősorban a fordításnak köszönhető. Minden bizonnyal folytatni fogom még a jövőben a szerző további műveivel is az ismerkedést, de nagy valószínűséggel inkább eredetiben.
Mindenesetre most már megengedem magamnak, hogy megnézzem a könyvből készült nagy sikerű filmet is, amit mindeddig halogattam.
Mindenesetre most már megengedem magamnak, hogy megnézzem a könyvből készült nagy sikerű filmet is, amit mindeddig halogattam.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Nice and interesting, with a lot of scientific explanations and miltary explanations. But the book was a predictable for thriller where they omit the important thing and let us see how it plays out, I would have been happier if they have not given a hint about the surprise, but for a book this old this is acceptable. The descriptions were good and sometimes it felt unnecessary for some characters who was not playing a big role. The ending was not so great because the ending was expected how it is gonna roll out, but that is to be expected when you read about a military missions. I will for sure recommend this for someone because till the last I was not able to predict what was gonna happen.
this is one of my favorite books of all times. Saw the movie, then found out it was a book. Had to go out and buy the book and read it through be see how different it was from the movie.
Tom Clancy delivered on so many levels that I was hooked after first few chapters. The political intrege was faboulas. the descriptive way characters and How submarines work. These are just a few things that I love about Tom Clancy.
Tom Clancy delivered on so many levels that I was hooked after first few chapters. The political intrege was faboulas. the descriptive way characters and How submarines work. These are just a few things that I love about Tom Clancy.
Not entertained by it; just not for me. Too much jargon, too much Look How Much Research I did. Reads like a manual. Quit at 50% point.
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-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
Maybe - 2.75
This book was way too long and took forever to finish. It also had too much irrelevant navy/submarine information that did not really add to the story. Disappointed but Jack Ryan as a character is good.
This book was way too long and took forever to finish. It also had too much irrelevant navy/submarine information that did not really add to the story. Disappointed but Jack Ryan as a character is good.
First of all.
This isn't the story that was fined as The Hunt for Red October. Don't go reading this expecting to see the film playing in your head.
Second, the title is perhaps misleading. Though on second thoughts, maybe not. Not in the very last section of the book, maybe. You see, it depends on who you think should be doing the hunting. You think you know before you open the book. But it isn't them, is it?
Set in the good old pre-Berlin Wall collapse of Communism, Cold War days, this wants to be a tense, detailed, almost revelatory - if you consider how little was actually known about 'them', by 'us' thanks to the fog of misinformation and fear - tale of fugue and subterfuge, seamanship and stealth. But it isn't. Tense, that is. The film is much more so, but the book just isn't. It's too long drawn out. OK; there are some tense moments, but they're few and far between. I think if you (are old enough to have) read the book before seeing the film, you might well have thoroughly enjoyed both. Maybe you'd think the film actually improved the books dynamics and tension? You'd be right. Having seen the film before just now reading the book, I can certainly see and understand why they did what they did.
While Jack Ryan is to some extents the 'hero' of The Hunt For Red October, it's a close-run thing. There's no one who really distinguishes himself (I can't think of any female characters) here. Except perhaps the Sonar man 'Jones'. It is he who actually finds 'Red October' after all, and if you're thinking of the title from an American perspective, it gives reason to wonder why it's called 'Hunt' and not 'Following Of'. But Jones is 'just' an unlisted man and Jack Ryan is of course Clancy's once and future king. As I thought the above, it struck me that it really didn't fit that other characters praised Ryan to the skies for his contribution. That doesn't work unless you're an author grooming your main character for the future. Then the Russian skipper 'Ramius', apart from setting the whole thing going of course, and some tricky ducking and weaving at the end, also has less of a role than you would have imagined, coming to the book from Sean Connery's 'Captain Ramius' of the film. Understandably really, as you wouldn't get Sean Connery out of bed to play the book's Ramius, that's for sure. Not enough to do. Unless the money was (Scottish) tax-free, I guess.
In fact, I would say the book is more of an ensemble piece. And all the better for that. The main star, rather obviously, is Clancy himself. Not so much for writing the thing, but for the obvious enormous amount of research into all things submarine and naval - on both sides of the Iron Curtain - he clearly did. Just and astounding piece of work when you begin to realise it.
With the book, the good stuff happens after Ramius has actually handed over the Red October. That can hardly be described as a spoiler, as the cover on the (first edition?) paperback I have (plundered from the library of a deceased family friend) has; 'Russia's most advanced missile submarine. Brand new...undetectable...and heading straight for the U.S. - TO DEFECT!' Well really, as the really tense, exciting stuff happens after the Russians have in effect defected, with that give-away, you can pretty much skip the first 300 pages I'd say. It is only after that, that the actual 'Hunt' for Red October begins. But you can see why they changed the story structure for the film, especially moving the final phase from post- to pre-defection, as it were.
To be honest, when you think about it; it is hard to criticize or evaluate effectively really. As I can't think now how much work I myself was doing in the imagining of the characters - of Ryan and Ramius especially - and how much I was using the film's/Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery's portrayal (though as Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan subsequently and more often, his face and mannerisms kept appearing in my head). The film director's ideas, as opposed to how good, or how vivid Tom Clancy's book's characterisations were. A bit unfair on Clancy really.
In short, an interesting curio, if you've seen the film. A kind of verbal equivalent to the 'behind the scenes' extras that come with DVD/Blu Rays these days. An interesting exploration of Cold War secrecy and politics if you grew up around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall - and all in all, probably a more interesting read if you haven't seen the filmed version.
This isn't the story that was fined as The Hunt for Red October. Don't go reading this expecting to see the film playing in your head.
Second, the title is perhaps misleading. Though on second thoughts, maybe not. Not in the very last section of the book, maybe. You see, it depends on who you think should be doing the hunting. You think you know before you open the book. But it isn't them, is it?
Set in the good old pre-Berlin Wall collapse of Communism, Cold War days, this wants to be a tense, detailed, almost revelatory - if you consider how little was actually known about 'them', by 'us' thanks to the fog of misinformation and fear - tale of fugue and subterfuge, seamanship and stealth. But it isn't. Tense, that is. The film is much more so, but the book just isn't. It's too long drawn out. OK; there are some tense moments, but they're few and far between. I think if you (are old enough to have) read the book before seeing the film, you might well have thoroughly enjoyed both. Maybe you'd think the film actually improved the books dynamics and tension? You'd be right. Having seen the film before just now reading the book, I can certainly see and understand why they did what they did.
While Jack Ryan is to some extents the 'hero' of The Hunt For Red October, it's a close-run thing. There's no one who really distinguishes himself (I can't think of any female characters) here. Except perhaps the Sonar man 'Jones'. It is he who actually finds 'Red October' after all, and if you're thinking of the title from an American perspective, it gives reason to wonder why it's called 'Hunt' and not 'Following Of'. But Jones is 'just' an unlisted man and Jack Ryan is of course Clancy's once and future king. As I thought the above, it struck me that it really didn't fit that other characters praised Ryan to the skies for his contribution. That doesn't work unless you're an author grooming your main character for the future. Then the Russian skipper 'Ramius', apart from setting the whole thing going of course, and some tricky ducking and weaving at the end, also has less of a role than you would have imagined, coming to the book from Sean Connery's 'Captain Ramius' of the film. Understandably really, as you wouldn't get Sean Connery out of bed to play the book's Ramius, that's for sure. Not enough to do. Unless the money was (Scottish) tax-free, I guess.
In fact, I would say the book is more of an ensemble piece. And all the better for that. The main star, rather obviously, is Clancy himself. Not so much for writing the thing, but for the obvious enormous amount of research into all things submarine and naval - on both sides of the Iron Curtain - he clearly did. Just and astounding piece of work when you begin to realise it.
With the book, the good stuff happens after Ramius has actually handed over the Red October. That can hardly be described as a spoiler, as the cover on the (first edition?) paperback I have (plundered from the library of a deceased family friend) has; 'Russia's most advanced missile submarine. Brand new...undetectable...and heading straight for the U.S. - TO DEFECT!' Well really, as the really tense, exciting stuff happens after the Russians have in effect defected, with that give-away, you can pretty much skip the first 300 pages I'd say. It is only after that, that the actual 'Hunt' for Red October begins. But you can see why they changed the story structure for the film, especially moving the final phase from post- to pre-defection, as it were.
To be honest, when you think about it; it is hard to criticize or evaluate effectively really. As I can't think now how much work I myself was doing in the imagining of the characters - of Ryan and Ramius especially - and how much I was using the film's/Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery's portrayal (though as Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan subsequently and more often, his face and mannerisms kept appearing in my head). The film director's ideas, as opposed to how good, or how vivid Tom Clancy's book's characterisations were. A bit unfair on Clancy really.
In short, an interesting curio, if you've seen the film. A kind of verbal equivalent to the 'behind the scenes' extras that come with DVD/Blu Rays these days. An interesting exploration of Cold War secrecy and politics if you grew up around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall - and all in all, probably a more interesting read if you haven't seen the filmed version.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-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
tense
fast-paced