Eric Plume’s Reviews > The Hunt for Red October > Status Update
Eric Plume
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Another fact Older Me is noticing; while Clancy is very fond of info-dumps and uses them regularly, he is very good at A: flowing from the story to the dump, B: making the dump interesting, and most importantly C: putting some good authorial connective tissue from the dump back to the story.
A lot of authors don't know how to do that and it shows.
— Dec 06, 2019 11:54PM
A lot of authors don't know how to do that and it shows.
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Eric Plume
is on page 280 of 432
I love how Clancy describes his Russian characters. They're competent, cynical about their government, nihilistic in a way but still loyal to the system they serve - even as they privately acknowledge that said system is totally broken.
I can imagine a 21st century US soldier/sailor in a similar position feeling about the same way.
Reading this 20 years later is definitely interesting.
— Dec 07, 2019 12:53AM
I can imagine a 21st century US soldier/sailor in a similar position feeling about the same way.
Reading this 20 years later is definitely interesting.
Eric Plume
is on page 274 of 432
Another observation; people like to say that Clancy is wordy...he's not. His stories are definitely complicated and detail-oriented, but from scene to scene he definitely gets to the point right quick.
— Dec 07, 2019 12:37AM
Eric Plume
is on page 190 of 432
Tom Clancy knows how to write a proper engineering disaster. Like, as someone who has watched one happen how he writes them are how they happen. I'm even more impressed than I once was.
— Dec 06, 2019 11:36PM
Eric Plume
is on page 32 of 432
I forgot how evocative Clancy's writing could be, especially when characters are ruminating on their lives and motivations.
— Dec 06, 2019 03:46PM
