Splinter Cell Series
#1
Posted 03 January 2005 - 04:59 AM
I'm reading Splinter Cell right now and I'm excited about the sequels to come
#2
Posted 03 January 2005 - 06:05 AM
http://www.commander...es/2602-1.shtml
#3
Posted 03 January 2005 - 12:05 PM
#4
Posted 10 January 2005 - 02:33 PM
#5
Posted 10 January 2005 - 02:51 PM
I've only read one of Benson's novels - High Time To Kill - and I thought it was dire.
"High Time to Kill" is an appalling piece of work, an unmitigated disaster on every level. I'd advise you, though, to check out "Zero Minus Ten" or "The Man With the Red Tattoo" - while nowhere near Fleming or "Colonel Sun", they're good, entertaining continuation novels, with locations handled very well. I prefer them to anything I've read by Gardner, who, while a superior writer to Benson, isn't much of a Bond author, IMO.
Don't give up on Benson, spynovelfan, he's done some decent stuff.
#6
Posted 10 January 2005 - 03:03 PM
I will, at some stage, try to check out his other Bond novels. Part of my problem with High Time To Kill was the whole bit set in Brussels, where I live. It was terribly clich
#8
Posted 10 January 2005 - 04:11 PM
Hell, a lot of this stuff is standard. A little later on, he says that if he's caught, the government will deny any knowledge of his actions. That's familiar, of course, from Mission: Impossible.
I found the jokey tone a little odd at first, but I'm pleasantly surprised he did it in first person and even bothered to give the guy a personality (especially one that makes jokes about spy thrillers). It's a well-researched and exciting opening, I think.
Edited by spynovelfan, 10 January 2005 - 04:22 PM.
#10
Posted 10 January 2005 - 04:33 PM
Hmmm... Wonder if Mr Greengrass has read any Trevanian.
#11
Posted 10 January 2005 - 08:05 PM
#12
Posted 10 January 2005 - 11:21 PM
#13
Posted 10 January 2005 - 11:48 PM
#14
Posted 11 January 2005 - 03:54 AM
> I was wondering if any information could be released on the
> upcoming sequel to Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell,
Jeff--
Many thanks for your interest. As the book is still in the early stages, there's nothing that can be revealed at this point. Like the Bonds, the Clancy organization likes to keep things under wraps until the book is actually out. And that will be next December.
All the best,
RB
I didn't know it was that easy to get information
Edited by dajman_007, 11 January 2005 - 03:55 AM.
#15
Posted 11 January 2005 - 03:59 AM
#16
Posted 16 January 2005 - 09:21 AM
I could be off too, who knows?
#17
Posted 16 January 2005 - 12:43 PM
The OPSAT attached to my wrist continues to wake me. There
#18
Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:47 PM
Or you could just buy a standard vibrating watch
Good point.
Maybe Benson was contractually obliged to include plenty of Clancyesque techno nerdy terms like "OPSAT", in order for the book to seem, y'know, full of "cool stuff" and detail. If this novel were a Bond film, I expect it'd be packed with shots of satellites in space, and Robinson-type characters talking into headsets and tapping away at laptops, looking as though they're doing really important things.
It's what the readers of "Splinter Cell" are after, I suppose. Doesn't really matter, because this book seems to be the literary equivalent of a Big Mac, to be "munched at McDonalds", as Benson himself would doubtless put it. "Would you like a side order of technobabble, sir?"
#19
Posted 16 January 2005 - 05:09 PM
Final point: everyone always goes on about what a brilliant researcher Fleming was, but he got technical stuff wrong, too, and in the same way I think Benson did/does. For example, he has Bond use a Beretta. When Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote to him to sayit was unsuitable and suggesting a Walther PPK or a Smith and Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver, Fleming corrected it, giving Bond the Walther. But in doing so, he got Bond to use the Berns-Martin Triple Draw holster. All the detail sounds marvellously authentic, but he had actually compounded the error, because Boothroyd had suggested that holster for the Smith and Wesson - it only works with revolvers.
I've probably made a few mistakes myself in this (regrettably long-winded) post.
Edited by spynovelfan, 16 January 2005 - 05:12 PM.
#20
Posted 16 January 2005 - 11:12 PM
pinball moves off the wall and other things |
Also, on a side note, If they start making books based on video games, I would love to see them make a book of Metal Gear Solid. I would especailly like it if they made books of the first two games, the one that was on the first Nintendo, and the one that was only released in Japan.
#21
Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:29 AM
The OPSAT attached to my wrist continues to wake me. There
#22
Posted 25 February 2008 - 01:52 PM
Also, on a side note, If they start making books based on video games, I would love to see them make a book of Metal Gear Solid. I would especailly like it if they made books of the first two games, the one that was on the first Nintendo, and the one that was only released in Japan.
Well, I don't know which game it's based on, but Raymond Benson has now written a METAL GEAR SOLID novel - check his website for details.