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Perhaps Tom Clancy books will continue to be written and published by a cadre of ghostwriters, much like VC Andrews.
by contextual 13y ago
Perhaps Tom Clancy books will continue to be written and published by a cadre of ghostwriters, much like VC Andrews.
- MartinCron 13y agoI can't honestly speak to the quality of the ghost-written VC Andrews books, but the whole idea makes me feel icky.
- VLM 13y agoThe problem with ghostwriters is as a wargamer (both cardboard and silicon) I always read his books as Very accurate realistic wargamer fanfic with lots of background material for those outside of the hobby. Oh and he tried to add a little color to his counters ... err I mean characters ... by making up little stories about this guy always wanted to visit the state of Montana after he defected or whatever. A real "Tom Clancy" style book would be take an exciting game of, say, Steel Wolves or Hornet Commander and remove all the dice rolling and turn it into fan fiction by adding a little imagination to the characters and tons of background for people outside .mil and outside the wargaming hobby. Unfortunately what we'll get is a ghostwriter who will probably steal the plot of an ancient WWII era submarine movie and make it Clancy-style by adding a dude who wants to defect to visit Montana and the main character would be named Ryan and the tech details and "wargaming" would be completely butchered into laugh ability by anyone actually in the .mil or into wargaming.