e complete Clancy fanatics as I learned from reading the critics views. One of the most abundant criticisms I found towards Clancy's work is that of his lack of character development. One reviewer put down Clancy by saying, "Clancy is a Master of Hardware"(Litchtenstein 1). His characters are viewed by many critics to be either larger-than life heroes or the traditional dark evil villain. They possess no human or personal characteristics which would make them real to the reader. In the reviews of Clancy's book Rainbow Six that I read, the comments were for the most part negative. The action and conclusion in the book, are said to be predictable and dull. One critic said, "It is amazing how the determined reader can plow through 700 pages of a thriller on a timely topic by a novelist who always tops the bestseller charts and still not come away with a single provocative idea or a single interesting character" (Litchtenstein 2). Clancy is not like most popular authors of this time though, gaining the respect of the critics early and later become their favorite target. Instead his earliest novels also took on a lot of flack. When Clancy's book Op Center was reviewed, it received just as much negative publicity as Rainbow Six. One critic wrote that he "never thought Clancy's geopolitical thrillers make for wonderful books" (Hiltbrand 1). The critic said that the story was very exciting and suspenseful, but that it really only "resembles a cheap copy off of an episode of mission impossible" (Hiltbrand 1). Clancy's stories are seen by the critics as being almost the same every time. An international terrorist group is running some sort of lucrative scheme against a government and a team of American special forces go in, led by the everyday Joe. This lack of dynamic theme and cardboard cutout characters is the main cause for the Critics to give it nothing but bad reviews. These bad reviews still do not at all affect the popular...
