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Title: Under Fire by W. E. B. Griffin, James Naughton, TBA ISBN: 0-399-14821-3 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (Audio) Pub. Date: 14 January, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (63 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not up to par
Comment: I'm a fan of "The Corps" series, so naturally I read this one and added it to the stack. But I daresay that if it had been written first, the series would never have gotten off the ground. I enjoy a couple of mainstream characters who can dodge bullets, do a triple somersault over an exploding grenade and keep on truckin', break some rules in order to get the job done in the face of overwhelming odds...but this one is over the top. And it shows signs of hurry-up. There are so many typos and sentences with missing words that I felt like getting a pencil and making corrections. Did anybody proof-read this thing? Sloppy, sloppy implementation to the point of being distracting. Apart from that, the main guys are still there, still larger than life, brought together in a totally different war by interesting circumstances. McCoy diminished in stature for me in this installment...he seems more like a loose cannon than the respectful, very capable Marine captain I had grown to like. I did miss Jack NMI Stecker in this one (please, please leave out the NMI...I get it already). The series gets a high rating...this installment doesn't. I agree with a previous reviewer...maybe we should chip in and buy Griffin a case of Famous Grouse to help keep him on track.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lousy writing
Comment: I got sick of almost every mention of a character having to include his full rank and service. I got sick of the stupid jargon of the weaponry. The writing is very low quality, and the story is hardly worth telling.
Rating: 1
Summary: A real disappointment
Comment: I really enjoyed Griffin's Brotherhood Of War series, the first three of The Corps and a couple of his Badge of Honor series also. But there's a similarity arising in all of these books that is beginning to get tiresome. For Instance:
1. All his protagonists are extremely wealthy, or are loved by a person who is.
2. In his war novels, enlisted men apparently do not exist -- certainly not for long -- and his heroes are military geniuses and extraordinarily heroic.
3. All have an antagonist who hates their guts and completely misunderstands them. (I'm still mad as hell at his character Robert Bellmon (Brotherhood of War) who, as written, was a mediocre [very wealthy] officer who somehow managed to become a general despite the fact that he never did anything worthy of note. He should have been retired as a light colonel and forgotten. He misunderstood everything, without exception, about the protagonist, Lowell. He refused to accept the fact that Lowell was an outstanding officer, interpreted everything he did in the worst possible manner, and stepped in his way at every opportunity. At the same time, he promoted MacMillan and favored him constantly. MacMillan was a lousy officer, completely out of his depth at every job he undertook. He was, at best, a good sergeant, but Griffin couldn't have a mere enlisted man as a heroic figure in his books, so Mac became an officer.) Enough of that.
4. All of his heroes are handsome, easy-to-like, and charming.
5. All attract women who are unusually beautiful who immediately fall desperately in love with them.
6. All friends and acquaintances are wealthy or soon will be.
This book is no different in those respects, and to make matters worse the story itself is not nearly as interesting as most. Even for those of you who are Griffin fans, in my opinion, you can forget about this one.
It's not worth your time.
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Title: In Danger's Path (Griffin, W. E. B. Corps, Bk. 8.) by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515126985 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Close Combat by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515112690 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Behind the Lines by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515119385 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Retreat, Hell by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0399150811 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Line of Fire by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515110132 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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