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Old 06-12-2008, 11:50 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
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Putting aside the seeming-prescience of the plot turn that enabled it, there is a detail in a book in a series that had me throw it aside and never lift another by the author off the shelf:

Spoiler:
Jack Ryan = President


Ugh. I feel a little sick.

Cheers,
Marc

While that fact did not put me off his books completely, I stopped buying his books after the Bear and the Dragon. Ugh! Sausage? that was horrible. And his other books that came after that which I skimmed in the Library confirmed my decision.

However I still love my copy of Red Storm Rising (On my 4th copy), and
Still enjoy his earlier works.
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