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  <title><![CDATA[Red Storm Rising]]></title>
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  <default_description>Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's  superpowers battle it  out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, &lt;i&gt;Red Storm Rising&lt;/i&gt; is  as powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget.&lt;p&gt; Hard-hitting, suspenseful, and frighteningly real.&lt;p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Clancy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, clancy.  If you like his stuff, you'll love this book.  If you like the books that he didn't write that have his name on them, you'll probably really like this book.<br/><br/>Few people know that this book was written as part of a competition that clancy had with Stephen King, to see who could...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37845443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43353171">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <review id="76855196">
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    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 16:16:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 23:22:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Clancy’s Red Storm arises amidst the cold-war of the 1980s, when complex events persuade Soviet hardliners to launch an audacious plan to seize Middle-East oil, while framing the Germans for starting a war.  In this, the author makes a bold, yet credible portrayal of Kremlin intrigue, and atti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76855196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62572957">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 20:36:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 07 20:38:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of the book was hard for me to buy (a Soviet invasion of Europe for a good old fashioned brawl).  It seems like it would be nuke city.  In any case, Clancy puts together a tenuous rationale for avoiding the use of nukes, mainly so that he can wargame with the expensive ships, subs, plane...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62572957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40656315">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 01:01:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 18:17:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll do the same review for all Clancy's novels because they're all pretty much the same. Very long, very detailed, and after a while, very repetitive. If you stop after just a few of his books you'd probably give them 4 or 5 stars, but beyond that they start to grate. Especially where Jack Ryan is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40656315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56973128">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 22 11:07:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 22 11:15:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book quite a bit.  Clancy writes military action very well and certain portions of this book were serious page-turners.  I feel as though I now better understand the challenges of modern naval warfare.<br/><br/>I have just two criticisms of the book:  <br/>1. It did not get excitin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56973128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60018057">
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    <name><![CDATA[Corbitt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 17 07:16:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 07:22:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first i thought it was boring, then i got really into the book. although no action happen for a long time it was a really great book. at first i didn't understand the beganing but as i thought about it, the beganing was very good. it fill with action. then its get into the politics part, some wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60018057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29904562">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cindy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 20:10:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 20:10:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book depicts a detailed military simulation of World War III, NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact, circa 1980s.  It unfolds like a war game——beginning with a terrorist attack which results in a catastrophic loss of crucial oil reserves in the USSR, after which hardliners in the Politburo launch an agg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29904562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69562409">
    <user id="1012909">
    <name><![CDATA[Curtiss]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 31 09:20:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 31 09:24:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[World War Three is launched when the Soviet Union finds itself facing a major energy crisis, and the hero is a meteorologist turned guerrilla-fighter on Iceland.<br/><br/>Lots of high-tech air-land-and-sea combat delivered at a break-neck pace by the master of the techno-thriller, Tom Clancy. To b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69562409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28331802">
    <user id="1337468">
    <name><![CDATA[Bill]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 01:22:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 24 22:35:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Clancy has always had a scary knack for predicting world events through his books. After the release of Red Storm Rising, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears, etc., shit happened that Clancy had already described in his books. Red Storm Rising was great becasue it described the fall of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28331802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60714527">
    <user id="1336573">
    <name><![CDATA[Charles]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Abita Springs, LA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 22 19:09:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 22 19:11:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was a massive achievement and really very intersting. I'd give it a higher ranking but it's just so darn long.  I understand World War III would take a while, but in fiction the writer could have condensed some of it.  Although I enjoyed it, it was a long time after reading this one b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60714527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18579379">
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    <name><![CDATA[G ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of Techno -Thrillers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 25 07:19:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Red Storm Rising<br/>By: Tom Clancy<br/>Genre: Thrillers, War, Drama, Thriller<br/> Red Strom Rising chronicles a hypothetical World War Three scenario between the United States and the Soviet Union, with any additional allies between the two superpowers. The book describes the viewpoints between...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18579379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8140165">
    <user id="572760">
    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 23 12:52:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 29 12:31:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read this book as a kid, it consumed me. I read this thing with an atlas at the ready so I could better understand the unfolding events of this fictional account of World War III.  I've read a few of the Cold War era WWIII scenario books, and this is, in my opinion, by far the best; hen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8140165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54930566">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jeff]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 17:02:14 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 11 17:02:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rereading another great book from Tom Clancy.  I am reading the new Amazon Kindle version of this as well.  Have noticed maybe a dozen or more mistakes in the text, many times a '1' in place of a 'i'.  Anyway, I am glad it is out for the Kindle - the way Amazon handles that is cool too:  if an updat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54930566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45310183">
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    <name><![CDATA[Don]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 17:30:05 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 03 18:08:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 06 17:30:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh.  It was a 2 hour radio drama (book on tape).  Some good detail about sub warfare, got kind of a vibe of the soviet politburo and their attitude towards the west during the cold war.  But besides that it was like listening to a video game I couldn't play.  Now I understand why there are so many C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45310183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38784771">
    <user id="655723">
    <name><![CDATA[Nick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Atlanta, GA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 27 21:21:55 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 27 21:23:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh man, this was my favorite book until I was thirteen or so, and I've read it several hundred times at least. It's kind of hokey, looking back, and certainly pop literature, but the several copies I wore through testify to its entertainment value.]]></body>
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    <review id="67288512">
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    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Jose, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 13 14:53:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Red Storm Rising</em> tells the story of a hypothetical World War III, triggered by a fuel crisis in the Soviet Union. It does not feature Jack Ryan, Clancy's All-American Hero and Family Man. Instead, it follows several different characters, some American, some Russian, through interleaved subplots, giv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67288512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far my favorite book by Clancy, and Jack Ryan isn't even in it.  If you only read one Tom Clancy book, read this one. I used to see military helicopters flying near my house in Utah.  I will never look at them the same after reading this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember how long ago I read this book, but it was the first Clancy book I read, and it has been a long while. It was an okay read, but I would guess it is even more dated now than it was back then. The plot is basically that the Soviet Union tries to start WWIII. A lot of Clancy's books hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16877056">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 11:03:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was the first Tom Clancy book I read, and at that point easily the longest (paperback edition at about 800 pages).  A great story, rich in detail, showing a multi-sided war breaking out from the egg of an international incident.]]></body>
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