A lot, probably. Clancy had a good decade run before Debt of Honor starts the descent.

Never had one IMO IMO IMO. Bad writer and a huge asshole.

#1 example of the movie can be better than the book

#2 behind the godfather

those two and Fight Club are my holy trinity here

Starship Troopers.

Starship Troopers is an interesting case b/c the movie is trying to do something drastically different than the book.

So my most right wing coded art take is that Starship Troopers as a book deserved to be made by a film maker that wanted to contend with its valid points and flaws and didn’t just outright hate it

I respect this take as I believe it about most things except for this one particular instance, in which I respect the artistic oeuvre of the fuck you and what it’s against enough to overcome a general objection.

What I’d really love to see is to side by side the one we have and then someone else doing the movie Dan’s proposed way.

Mine is going to have the fucking suits at least

I didn't used to think this was true AT ALL but as I've gotten older I think Jurassic Park might be in this club

Crichton is another bad writer who got inexplicably popular in that era but Jurassic Park was an okay book.

Jurassic Park is a maybe; however, Thirteenth Warrior>>>>>>>>>>> Eaters of the Dead

I only tried Andromeda Strain (which I liked more for the concept than the writing) and Jurassic Park but tried Congo before they tried to make it into a movie and gave up on Crichton's writing altogether.

Congo was a hilariously bad book! and an even worse movie lol

oh wait, Hunt for Red October is 3 on my list, behind the collected works of Robert Ludlum. The Bourne books are *shockingly* bad.

I find that very unsurprising

Thirteenth Warrior is so good I love it

Eaters of the Dead sucks out loud

I’m so glad I’m not the only one I watch it at least two times a year

yeah it wasn't a bad book but I think it's just not as good as it I thought it was when I was 12 or whatever, whereas the movie is still stupendous

I enjoyed Hunt for Red October a fair amount but damn everything after that declined faster than the Dune sequels

He came to a literary festival at ND while I was a student. It was a bit of a departure b/c we usually didn't invite "commercial" authors. All he talked about was how much money he made. I knew some folks running it and they all said he was a dickhead behind the scenes, and a creep to the women.

We got Mick Foley!

We got James Earl Jones the next year which was pretty awesome even though he wasn't a writer, he gave a great speech and his Q&A was amazing. Someone got him to record a voicemail greeting.

It's shock his divorce was so acrimonious

I re-read the Bear & The Dragon a few of months ago Oh man that was ROUGH Absolutely clear he didn’t have to worry about having an editor and oh boy does it show Particularly the number of time he repeats the same sets of “”problematic””statements (quotes bc I can’t remember the specific words)

All I needed to see of him was him giving a talk to the NSA wearing sunglasses and my "FUUUUCCK YOUUUU" killswitch engaged

Jim Bouton

The Cold War ended.Then came Sum of All Fears at the very end of the Soviet Union and then… We read Clear and Present Danger as a study of situational ethics for one of my MilSci classes. No, not as a guidebook.