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Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 3:54:10 PM   
HercMighty


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Status: offline 		Author Tom Clancy dies at 66
Oct. 2, 2013, 10:37 AM EST

By Brent Lang
TheWrap

Tom Clancy, the author of several best-selling military thrillers including "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games," died Tuesday at a Baltimore hospital. He was 66.

Bing: More on Tom Clancy

Clancy's publisher confirmed the news to the New York Times. A spokesman for the author's literary agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a career that spanned three decades, Clancy became one of the most successful figures in publishing. His name above a title was a calling card that conferred best seller status on his espionage and military thrillers and inspired a dizzying array of tie-ins ranging from movies to video games.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 4:04:54 PM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 4:27:07 PM   
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I remember way back when my mother gave me a newspaper clipping previewing a book called Hunt for Red October by some unknown author. She thought it might be something that I'd be interested in.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 4:57:43 PM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 5:10:50 PM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 5:12:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		RIP Tom. For a lot of us that was not in the service. HFRO and RSR was what got us interested in this field.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 5:20:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well that shocked me.
Well remember a mate having to finish his hardback copy of Red Storm Rising before I could read it.
Felt like a lifetime (could not afford hardback)

RIP Tom.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 7:19:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		RIP. Funny you say that LuckyJim. I started rereading my thick red hardback RSR a few nights after Command was released.

Tom got me into Harpoon. Without his books it is quite possible I would not be here.

On a positive note: time to reread my favorites as a celebration of his life.

Godspeed.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 8:38:24 PM   
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Thanks for all the time enjoying reading your books

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 9:22:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Goodbye Tom. RIP.

My first exposure to modern naval simulations was Red Storm Rising (that old sub game). Red October, Red Storm Rising, Rainbow Six.

If you are an American wargamer grognard you read Tom's classics. And that is what they are: Classics of the genre.

He is missed.




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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 9:27:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Shocked and saddened by the news of his death. Hunt for Red October was a seminal work and a mighty fine thriller. He was a very innovative author in a genre he almost invented, the technothriller. Read and re-read all of his stuff up until later times. HfRO is one movie my wife and I enjoy watching whenever it is on (must have watched it at least a million times and never tire of it). Spent countless hours on computer games he fathered. He was, in short, a signficant influence on my life. He will be missed but he will live on through his works.


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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 10:23:48 PM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 11:34:25 PM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/2/2013 11:42:43 PM   
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i must've read RSR at least 5 times.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 12:53:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm retired now but worked for 30 years at Electric Boat, testing and designing subs. Of course, any book on submarine warfare made the rounds quickly. I remember reading the last chapter on the shuttle bus to the parking lot and had about 10 pages to go. I had to just sit in the car and finish it before driving home.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 1:00:46 AM   
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Remember going to watch Hartford launch when I was a kid.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 1:07:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Goodbye Tom... i discovered your books a few months ago (currently reading clear & present danger for the first time) but im enjoying them :)

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 2:43:42 AM   
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Remember going to watch Hartford launch when I was a kid.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 2:57:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was on my first tour on a submarine when Hunt for Red October came out. The next year War Games came out as a movie. Finally submarines were represented in movies and in books. I was elated! I loved Cardinal in the Kremlin and Red Storm Rising both of which came out while I was on my second sub. Sum of all Fears and Patriot Games were excellent also. I read each a number of times. I have tried to write a number of books in his style. I am currently writing one now. It is so difficult to capture that feel that his books give. I will miss you. j
RIP Tom!

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 3:02:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		The movie never did the book justice. I remember when the movie came out, my family were very excited. I told them to read the book.
Years later I saw the movie on TV and still say, the book is better. I read it in two days, and while out in the boondocks.
He was an original. I always enjoyed him and James Clavell.

RIP Tom.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 3:05:53 AM   
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 3:08:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 5:20:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Primarchx

True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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All of his books were better than the subsequent movies.





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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 1:32:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		I remember reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising back in the day. 66 is too young!!

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 1:34:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Crimguy

Whoa, there. You're forgetting Das Boot of course . . .

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ORIGINAL: Primarchx

True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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ORIGINAL: joey

All of his books were better than the subsequent movies.






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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 1:34:51 PM   
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He's not the reason I got interested in aviation, but I certainly got interested in his books because of that and that triggered an expanding of my interest beyond the awesomeness of fighter planes and into a more broad interest in military history/warfare. Also had a lot of fun playing the first games in the Rainbow 6 series online for years and made a bunch of friends. Not directly his everyday work but spinoff from what he did.I just grabbed RSR off the shelf the other day to research some for possibly reproducing an event in Command and of course I immediately started reading beyond the paragraphs that were relevant haha. Had to stop myself.

But I think now I will reread all the boks again.

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 2:02:07 PM   
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My personal favourite was Cardinal of The Kremlin

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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 3:48:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes Das Boat was so much better! But The Hunt for Red October a decent movie nevertheless! The Sum of All Fears was not a good movie. It was not true to the book. Too bad really.
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Whoa, there. You're forgetting Das Boot of course . . .

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ORIGINAL: Primarchx

True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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ORIGINAL: joey

All of his books were better than the subsequent movies.






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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 5:08:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Primarchx

True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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ORIGINAL: joey

All of his books were better than the subsequent movies.




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RE: Tom Clancy - 10/3/2013 5:35:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		How can you have a memorial thread for such a great man without reflecting on his masterful works? Isn't the most fitting form of praise for such a man?

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I guess I should stop being amazed by what gets posted online in forums. Who would hijack a memorial thread to deliver their trite opinion about media associated with the author? Couth, couth! My kingdom for some couth.





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True. But Hunt for Red October is the best sub movie I know.
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ORIGINAL: joey

All of his books were better than the subsequent movies.






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