It's two (two!) two posts in one! Because I've not been posting often lately.
So I'm on my way home from work, listening to yet another book on CD. On my tiny little backroad that I take home, I passed a car going very slowly with his blinkers on. He waved me around, so I rolled down the window and asked if he needed help. He didn't, had a cell phone, all cool.
Later on the same road, I passed some goth-looking kids by a car parked at the side of the road, blinkers on, but they looked like they hadn't a care in the world and continued smoking butts and kind of waved "hi" as I went by, so I went on.
Then came the sirens. Firetruck passing me in the other direction. Then another. Then another. Then an ambulance. So I don't know what happened, and I can't find it on the local news/traffic websites, nor even on the CHP incident website. Backroads don't rate much, I guess.
But anyway, I heard a great line in my "book on CD" and thought I would share it to see if anyone still reading this lonely outpost of the blogosphere might recognize it (and I don't want to go out to the car to retrieve the CD, so it's close but only from a two-beered-up memory):
"So what's the plan?"
"Your call. You have two options. We could take you to the airport and fly you out. Six hours and it's over."
"What's the other option?"
"Chavez, how would you like to get the fucker that did this to you?"
Iz out!
2 months ago
11 comments:
Well, Ding Chavez is a Clancy character, so I'm going to guess Clear and Present Danger.
Quite so. Is he a recurring character? I've only read two, he wasn't in the other.
By the way, both of these were very abridged versions, and Jack Ryan almost seems like a peripheral character. I was under the impression that he's the main character in the books.
I recognized that immediately. I've only reread that book a half dozen times or so.
I'll answer your question, but I don't want to spoil the suspense.
I believe Ding's in more than one of the books, yes, but I know his story is central to CAPD, which is why I went with that one. Didn't remmeber the exact quote.
Well now that I've looked up the Ryanverse, I'll be dogged. Son-in-law to John Clark.
Damn. Unfortunately, my local library doesn't have the other books on CD. I'm disappointed in that.
IMHO, Clancy had one good book in him: The Hunt for Red October. Patriot Games was... passable. Cardinal of the Kremlin was so boring, I skipped 30 pages and didn't miss a thing. After that, it seemed like he got paid by the word. :)
Julie,
I beg to differ. Red Storm Rising was, OMHO, every bit as interesting as HfRO.
That should read IMHO.
I tend to agree. Hunt for Red October was his best. Red Storm Rising only a little less good. Patriot Games, passable. The rest vary between "for the uncritical reader only" and "dreadful." Time and success have not been kind to Mr Clancy's writing. Or to Mr Clancy, either.
Well, this is kinda disappointing because I'm heading upcountry next week to go deer hunting. And I just checked out a passel of his Op-Center CDs and tapes for the drive.
I actually liked "Cardinal of the Kremlin", not as much as "Clear and Present Danger", but it was decent enough.
Sad to hear that Clancy's gone much the same way as John Le Carre. A few really good ones, then crash.
I liked Debt of Honor. Actually, I liked or at least could tolerate all of them until The Bear and the Dragon. Sometime when you want to feel some schadenfreude, click over to Amazon and read the customer reviews for that turkey.
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