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1.0 out of 5 stars
Give Me A Cyber-Break!, February 27, 2002
Tom Clancy's name is splattered all over the cover of the sixth in the Net Force series. If his only motivation is to let the publisher use his name for the money, I hope he's getting very little. This book is, in a word, terrible. Speculative, science, and techno-thriller fiction are some of my favorite books; this book isn't convincing on any front. Sure, language has changed with the advent of the Web, but the egregious overuse of made-up jargon, describing concepts that are probably not close-in enough to spawn the casual, nickname-ish use prevalent in this book's narrative. Gratuitous jargon, gratuitous sex, and labored narrative just don't cut it. I pity the poor guy that picks this thing up in an airport newsstand and gets stuck with it for hours.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Write your own books!, February 11, 2002
I have read about half of Tom Clancy's other books and they were phenomenal for the most part. I am an attorney and a pretty good writer. Cybernation was one of the worst books I have ever read. I read the entire book so that I would truly give it a chance to get better; it didn't! I am part of the force designed to protect the nation's infrastructure and this book was childish at best. I am sorry to be so harsh, but if you let someone put your good name on a book, you should read it first. Not to worry, every page has its own cliche. The end of the book, not to ruin it for you, "Yep. And they lived happily ever after." Great ending!
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Only a Shadow of Clancy, November 26, 2001
First, let me tell you a little about the book. This series follows Net Force, a division of the FBI set up to deal with net crimes in 2010. CyberNation deals with a group trying to form a nation based completely on the net. Their main goal throughout the book is to get more people to sign up with them, so that they have the numbers to get the attention of current nations. To get people to join, they disrupt the internet, in a not very legeal way, and so Net Force is called in. The rest of the book is Net Force trying to catch the hackers doing the disruptions. In general this series has a very well thought out discription of what needs to be done to protect and police the net. Having said that, I have noticed that the Net Force books have been going down hill, and this one continues that trend. A lot of time is spent on character development, but no development actually comes out of it. For example, we see Jay Gridley question his upcoming marrage. But in the end, the final decision has nothing to do with the pages of inner questioning that he goes through. Then there is the introduction of new 'toys' for the military, that never show up again. Add to that the fact that every other scene leads to sex, and that there is almost no technology discription, this book is only a shadow of Clancy's work. IMHO this series has become a soap opera, with most of the time spent on generic character development and sex, and very little time spent on the action and discriptions that brought me to Clancy in the first place.
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