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kschang · 08-30-05, 01:36 PM

Here's my opinion of the vairous authors

Patrick Robinson -- way over-rated. Nimitz class should never have been published, much less made him into a multi-book seller. Who the ******* would start a book backwards? The most exciting part is in the beginning, and the rest reads like a whodunit spy novel! Kilo-class is okay in that it's mostly special operations stuff and spy play. HMS UNSEEN is, well... two novelettes disguised as a single novel. USS SEAWOLF is a joke, and practically a rip-off of DiMercurio's Attack of the Seawolf's plot. I am also turned off by the extremely sad ending. I didn't bother to read his latest, Shark Mutiny.

Michael DiMercurio -- got the sub touches down pat, but seems to have lost his touch in the more recent novels, and I think we are all getting tired of Pacino surviving another scrape against another secret Russian or whoever's supersub. And there is no defense against Vortex or equivalent once it's fired. It all comes down to getting the first sniff, and that means sending out more remote sensors and such. I think his best novels are voyage of the Devilfish, and Attack of the Seawolf, before all this Vortex mumbojumbo is introduced.

Joe Buff -- his novels are about 60-70% sub and the rest commando action. And so far I think he's the current top writer out there, IMHO of course. Deep Sound Channel and the sequel painted an very interesting if bleak picture on modern naval warfare, where tactical nukes are used frequently and often esp. on high seas.

08-30-05, 01:36 PM	#7
kschang Watch Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 26 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Here's my opinion of the vairous authors Patrick Robinson -- way over-rated. Nimitz class should never have been published, much less made him into a multi-book seller. Who the ******* would start a book backwards? The most exciting part is in the beginning, and the rest reads like a whodunit spy novel! Kilo-class is okay in that it's mostly special operations stuff and spy play. HMS UNSEEN is, well... two novelettes disguised as a single novel. USS SEAWOLF is a joke, and practically a rip-off of DiMercurio's Attack of the Seawolf's plot. I am also turned off by the extremely sad ending. I didn't bother to read his latest, Shark Mutiny. Michael DiMercurio -- got the sub touches down pat, but seems to have lost his touch in the more recent novels, and I think we are all getting tired of Pacino surviving another scrape against another secret Russian or whoever's supersub. And there is no defense against Vortex or equivalent once it's fired. It all comes down to getting the first sniff, and that means sending out more remote sensors and such. I think his best novels are voyage of the Devilfish, and Attack of the Seawolf, before all this Vortex mumbojumbo is introduced. Joe Buff -- his novels are about 60-70% sub and the rest commando action. And so far I think he's the current top writer out there, IMHO of course. Deep Sound Channel and the sequel painted an very interesting if bleak picture on modern naval warfare, where tactical nukes are used frequently and often esp. on high seas.