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If you've never read it, this is as good a time as any to pick up a copy of The Hunt for Red October. I had never actually read it until three or four years ago
by JunkDNA 13y ago
If you've never read it, this is as good a time as any to pick up a copy of The Hunt for Red October. I had never actually read it until three or four years ago (though I had seen the movie as a teen). It has held up remarkably well.
- jedberg 13y agoI actually read the book before I saw the movie and it was great! I think partly it holds up because he wrote it before anyone was making any media out of his books. All the other books clearly are written with (movie/video game) in the back of his mind, but that one was just straight prose. Can't agree with you more, folks should definitely read it if they haven't. Then watch the movie again with a much greater appreciation for the story.
- tnorthcutt 13y agoAll the other books clearly are written with (movie/video game) in the back of his mind, but that one was just straight prose. His next four books were written before The Hunt for Red October came out in film form.
- FireBeyond 13y agoMaybe so, but HFRO was optioned for feature film production within two months of its publication, and planning began near immediately, so film adaptation would have been pretty heavy on Clancy’s mind at the time.
- manojlds 13y agoThe Hunt for Red October is THE book that comes to my mind when I think of Tom Clancy. It was the only book I was thinking when I saw this link and came here. Glad to see it mentioned in the top comment. On the games front, I am a huge fan of Splinter Cell series. Both the gamer, and the voracious reader in me would miss him.
- brudgers 13y agoRed Storm Rising was what turned me on to Clancy. Then again, in the 1980's the idea World War III was a bit closer to home.