Red Storm Rising (original 1986; edition 1988)

Usually I read books by Tom Clancy with great pleasure. I like the many plot lines and the fact that I have to think things through when I am reading.
These and the fact that the Gulf War is a subject of interest, are the reasons why I bought this book.

Boy, was I mistaken!! 50 pages, 100 max, I didn't get any further. It is just not for me... ( )

I believe this was my least liked of the Tom Clancy books I have read - it dragged on in a few sections, and the military maneuver details were overdone to my taste. However, since it was the second one I read and the first was really good, I kept going, and was glad I did. ( )

I've read books by Tom Clancy before, and found them to be engaging and entertaining and complicated, and Red Storm Rising is no exception.

As this book was first published in 1986, many things are obviously dated, but it's still a very good read. There is no one protagonist as in the Jack Ryan books, but a cast of many characters (you DO need a score card!). The plot twists, bobs and weaves so much, if you try to read this story in short increments, you will get "lost"...

My favorite character was probably the weatherman in Iceland, who finds an inner strength as he meets obstacle after obstacle.

Well recommended! ( )

Start on Nov 2012, now I was finished on Mar, 2013...Very long long time to read.I never been read other books long long time than this before. First 200 pages have some interesting idea but when it's go on and go on it's very dull.Clancy show some military techno weapons, ships and airforces I don't have an idea to sort them out. ( )

First Clancy novel I read. Very interesting story - and if I may say so, very believable because universal society rule says -> if you are in social trouble go to war, because in that case you have 50:50 chances (or better if your military might is [vastly] superior to your opponent ) to calm down your folk and proceed on (I think recent events are more then proof for this).[return][return]Only thing that annoys me is that we-win-no-matter-what-they-do. Although I can understand this I think this scenario is least likely than all. More realistic scenario can be found in "Third World War" by Humphrey Hawksley - when major powers collide population survivability is extremely low for all sides in conflict (and those caught in the middle).[return][return]Beside that good novel with lots of interesting military hardware info (Clancy's trademark :) ) ( )