RIPs

[Mabs]

Ken Norton aged 70.

He broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in one of their fights.

Aw, R.I.P fella. 

[vzzbux]

On this day in 1986 the world Lost a great (arguably the greatest) bassist. R.I.P Cliff Burton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wGFfrJv4Y





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[Frank]

Tom Clancy: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/author-tom-clancy-dead-66-article-1.1473782

[Dunk!]

Tom Clancy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24372224

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Tom Clancy http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/2/4794572/author-tom-clancy-dead-at-age-66

Let's keep this going.

[sheldipez]

Can anyone recommend a Tom Clancy book? I've played a ton of the Clancy universe games but never an actual novel.

[Richmond Clements]

Can anyone recommend a Tom Clancy book?

Not really no. Not unless you like your fiction really right wing and occasionally racist.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/10/02/hunt-for-red-october-author-tom-clancy-passes-away/

[Frank]

Tom Clancy. I hear if you say his name three times he manifests on the material plain and starts trying to shag Winona Ryder.

[von Boom]

Tom Clancy. I hear if you say his name three times he manifests on the material plain and starts trying to shag Winona Ryder.

Only if you're looking into a mirror.

[Dark Jimbo]

Surprised there's been no mention of Tom Clancy yet. Someone should, y'know, put up a link or something.

[Goaty]

Yo! Tom Clancy's dead!

[sheldipez]

Can anyone recommend a Tom Clancy book?

Not really no. Not unless you like your fiction really right wing and occasionally racist.

And to think I was put off by their length. I swear I once saw one of his books in a charity shop and it took up most of the shelf.

[von Boom]

Can anyone recommend a Tom Clancy book?

Not really no. Not unless you like your fiction really right wing and occasionally racist.

And to think I was put off by their length. I swear I once saw one of his books in a charity shop and it took up most of the shelf.

That's a good place to keep them. Mind you they make good sofa/chair props if they've got a broken leg.

[TordelBack]

Ah for all the huge political and literary shortcomings, some of Clancy's Jack Ryan stuff is very entertaining, if you like the odd dip into the mil-porn-thriller genre. 

Hunt for Red October is a solid Cold War yarn, and Sum of All Fears is a pretty fun read, I particularly enjoyed the silliness of the Vatican's Swiss Guards patrolling Jerusalem, and Clancy writes a good low-yield nuke detonation, although the ending is pretty bizarre (although not as bizarre as the ending to Clear And Present Danger).  Patriot Games (chronologically the first Ryan book, detailing how Jack ends up working with the CIA) I wouldn't touch with a complete stranger's bargepole: it's worse than the pretty terrible film.