My father was in the military, so I lived on an active amphibious base when I was a kid. So I saw a lot of special operators and "consultants", they contracted for NSA, CTU, or CIA, that worked for Washington based think tanks. The first time I heard Tom Clancy give a breakdown of his novel Red October, it was a video on PBS for a Book review at the NSA. He reminded me of the "consultants" that I remembered seeing when I was a kid.

This is great to hear! I'm nearly 30, so I think I'll wait 6 more years to get seriously into writing and pump out best sellers and make movie deals.

Good video. I was a huge Clancy fan for years, ever since my dad, a former naval officer, gave me a copy of Hunt for Red October, which he raved about for its authenticity and sheer storytelling excitement. My problem with Clancy was that the bigger his career grew, his books grew in size right along with it. I found his books to be more and more bloated, jingoistic, and the characters to be shallow with a few exceptions like Jack Ryan and Mr. Clark. I think Frederick Forsyth was the first thriller writer to make a name for himself with extreme authentic detail backed by very strong research and sources. Unlike Clancy, Forsythe, famous for such books as Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Dogs of War, was never jingoistic, even if he was a strong British patriot. My disenchantment with Clancy led me to read more LeCarre, Follett, Ludlum, Forsyth, Gerald Seymour and Len Deighton. I like reading about the hardware and technical aspect of war as much as any red-blooded male, but when it comes down to it I'd rather read a more character and flat out action oriented novel of the sort David Morell excels at.

You hit the nail on the head with regard to bulk. That was the sign of times. Cable television hadn’t fully saturated the masses till the late 80s. The pace of today with its endless options and social media make reading lengthy works even less desirable and challenging. To his credit, his works still hold up. Generations of readers born during and after Clancy’s breakout often desire more economy in storytelling. The same can be said of a Ludlum.

Tom Clancy still dominates and will continue to dominate in the future. He shattered established movie and television tropes, inspired an entire genre of video games, and redefined the literary genres of spy, military, and political thrillers.

I loved his non fiction books about submarines, fighter jets, aircraft carriers. The military gave him special access.

I can’t believe I read most of his books in Highschool

You mentioned Larry Bond a number of times in this video. Did you know he was a co-author of "Red Storm Rising" with Clancy? It really shows in Bond later book Red Phoenix. Also things like the love story between the weatherman and the Icelandic girl, I think that part came from Bond rather than Clancy, as there was nothing similar in all of the other Clancy books.

I've read a few novels by Clancy and really enjoyed them. My Dad was always able to get through them quicker than I was ever able to. I always wondered why around the 2000s it seemed like he just stopped or rather people stopped reading his books. Even stuff like 'Red Rabbit' & 'The Teeth of the Tiger' (Which I admit, I didn't read) never seemed to capture people the way previous stories like 'Hunt for Red October' 'Patriot Games' "Sum of All Fears' were able to.

Wow this was great, make more of these!

A top 10 Tom Clancy books video next?

So excited for this new series

Clancy is my favorite author. Thanks so much for making this.

It's inspiring to see stories about people that got a late start, I probably won't ever do anything memorable but thats enough to keep me going.

WOO TRAVIS IS BACK!

Love these please make more

Please do more "How They Got There" videos. I love watching them! :D

Love this👏🏼

the first couple of books were great. I really struggled with cardinal of the kremlin and didn't finish clear and present danger. I haven't been back since aside from playing ghost recon. another great video.

Great tribute to a fantastic man! Just wanted to clear one thing up about the bomb in Sum of all Fears; the Plutonium from the original bomb was reworked and designed to be a boosted fission bomb. Boosted fission bombs are not Hydrogen bombs. They do use Tritium, which is a radioactive isotope of Hydrogen (1 proton plus 2 neutrons), to create massive amounts of neutrons, which are the driving force behind a fission bomb, which “boosts” the energy of the explosion. The East German bomb maker was killed before he was able remove the Helium3 contaminants, which are neutron absorbers from the Tritium, which caused a “fizzle” to occur when the bomb was detonated. It didn’t pack anywhere near the punch the designer intended.

i enjoyed this review

I've never read his books (yet) but I do like the movie adaptations and the video games

Subbed!

read Rainbow Six after playing the first PC game. that blew my 13 year old mind and i still like it, but reading his other novels... yeesh. i can only imagine the meetings between tom and his editor - if he had one. the game series sucks now too.

Clive Cussler would be another interesting entry for this series.

I'm really curious what was in those 100 pages cut from "Red October". The pacing is mostly good, but I found it a little choppy, and the ending leaves us with Jack Ryan getting home off-screen.

Best-selling novel adapted into great movie.

Video games

When you consider the amount of research Clancy put into his books that's deserving of 5 type writers. Perhaps you should split up the Perseverance and Hard Work unto their own categories.

I was watching Jack Ryan season 2 (produced by Tom Clancy?), and I wanted a Tom Clancy info video. Thanks.

@thefalsekingslayer3717

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Ryan is a Tom Clancy character. Tom Clancy himself is dead.

@epiphoney

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefalsekingslayer3717 And yet he's still producing!

Plzzzzz do more guinea pig vids 🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️

When you’re writing, how do you avoid plagiarism? You said that your Bridgeworld novels were inspired by. How careful do you have to be to make sure that your novels are inspired and not plagiarized? Maybe use Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein as a broader example as it was inspired by Mary Shelley.

Reading red October he is an info dumper but I’m enjoying the plot.

Why does Tom Clancy look like Hawkeye?

When they talk about exacting details they mean it. The CIA even had a file on this guy

I knew Tom Clancy

@mrw4165

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

I've never read a Clancy novel, but I admire his stand against communism, something few authors would do (or be allowed to do) today.

I could never finish any of his books. Boring.

@ariqr7405

4 жыл бұрын

Could you explain more about it?

@dominicwyartt3598

2 жыл бұрын

Think a lot of it could be down to be the info dump style Clancy adopts, he’s a good story teller like Koontz but not a great writer like King, Kepnes etc

@joeofmacabre07

2 жыл бұрын

Well if you are not into political/techno thrillers with a lot of detailed infos, then his books arent for you.