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Well, it at least made for some fun cyberpunk stuff. :cool:

Sure enough, but his plots already went batshit crazy in the mid-'90s. Sure, Debt of Honor can be forgiven for seeming dumb in retrospect, because Clancy was far from the only one who bought into the "Japan is the next big superpower and a BIG THREAT" meme that floated around at the time. But...

Yeah, at some point, Clancy's plots just devolved into complete nonsense. (His geopolitical assumptions took a weird turn, too.)

At this point, my reaction amounted to "??????????????????????" Surely the Thrawn trilogy can't qualify as the worst book he's read? ...but at this point, it suddenly began to make a lot more sense. Even though it's pretty poorly written and full of some really weird cases of 'author appeal'...

My decision to stop reading usually kicks in when I realise there's something that just makes the experience unpleasant to me. There's a lot of books, I love reading, I can't read them all, so I don't waste time with books that waste my time. Stephenson can be very, very annoying. He wants to...

"Worst" is a difficult concept. There are books that are obviously utter garbage as far as any element of writing is concerned, but I don't tend to read those books. Except when they're so terrible it becomes fun again, in which case "worst" doesn't really apply. If I don't enjoy reading a...