Tom Clancy's Endwar
David Michaels
Read it in
paper-back, 416 pages.
Oh book club, you
make me read things I would normally not touch with a ten foot pole. Not because I hate books based on video games
but because I have never come across or encountered a book that I rated highly
that is from video game stock (any game really) and thus generally do my best
to ignore that juncture all together.
With that said,
there is a steak dinner on the line. No
time for coddling.
Tom Clancy's Endwar,
deceptively not written by Tom Clancy but instead David Michaels, tells a
futuristic hypothetical about the middle east blowing itself to nuclear bliss
and the resulting power struggle between big red mother Russia and the prideful
but capable heroes of America, the United States, in an effort to secure the
remaining petroleum reserves of the world.
We are dropped in at some point during this war and the vodka potato
eaters have nearly defeated the forces of Europe. Fear not though for the stars and stripes are
here and at the juncture in which we the readers are thrown in, the double down
world war champs have just secured a valuable resource and uncovered a Russian
plot that will determine the fate of the war and maybe even the world. Only the United States can stop them and once
again the fates see us squaring off with big red.
This is your queue
to be excited.
The book unfolds
much like a video game. Lots of
characters, no character depth or building, erratic location movement,
streamlined high energy plot and chalk full of stereotypes. It's ridiculously easy to read and I finished
it roughly five hours. It was exciting
and left me wanting to pick up a first person shooter and shank people in the
neck, see the pink mist, and destroy a detachment with a grenade. It's that action packed, the entire way
through in fact…it reads as a video game plays.
No surprise there.
-Potential Spoilers
Below-
Eight people
finished but only seven sent me their details/showed up. So our list is missing
one and I will ridicule him below.
For the most part
peoples favorite moments were those of intense action, surprise, again the
whole book is action; but I digress and some of these favorite moments
included, a sinking or a Russian fleet by a submarine, an aerial battle in
which a pilot shoots down a ridiculous amount of (formerly) commies, the
climbing of a Calgary tower against hard opposition, an escape of a pilot
through the tundra, and some landmines that can do the boot scoot and shuffle.
Evan provided me no details.
Least favorite
moments were actually far between but generally involved the prime minister of
America's top hat being a total D-bag.
Again, Evan failed to weigh in despite what I am sure would have been
colorful commentary. Perhaps we got no
feedback because this selection did not feature an Albino villain?
Out of ten, one
being the worst, OLT book club members scored it as follows:
Dust: 5
TomB: 6
David-dilla: 6
Th3ee: 4
SS: 4
AndyCoug: 4
Hylen: 5
Eleach: 4 (pulled
from your review)
OLT average of: 4.85
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