![]() ![]() This gives the impression that the many characters in this book can be condensed into a few, less than multidimensional types. Rather than amalgamating various personality traits into a single character, one get's the feeling of the reverse process going on in this book. He writes his characters from the outside-in and therefore they lack a certain depth of characterisation and the individual idiosyncrasies that lend themselves to the reader's perception of breathing, bleeding, living people which might shift the author into the coterie of great American authors. ![]() To some readers, like myself, this will be enough to prevent them from becoming starry-eyed fanboys of the author. Clancy is, of course, unabashedly patriotic, militaristic, and will surprise no one in his predictably conservative view on the Drug War, treatment of politics and politicians. Considering the book was written over 30 years ago, a surprising amount of the content is still relevant and even the stuff that isn't, can be still looked at from the present without expending any psychic energy in suspending disbelief or questioning its plausible historic verisimilitude. I can also see why Clancy became an institution and how much of a Ying-Yang effect the American Political zeitgeist (sorry about the terminology) had on him and how much he must have influenced it. ![]() I understand this novel, when first published, landed on the NY Times B/S List and stayed there for quite awhile, I can see why. ![]()
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