Semi OT Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66

[Raellus]

When I read Red Storm Rising for the first time in around '88, it meshed almost perfectly with my 14-year-old, T2K-inspired worldview. I must have read it 3-4 times as a teenager and again three or four years ago. I still enjoy the heck out of it. I like some of his other '80s work as well, but over the last two decades it seemed like he was basically just calling it in. His last few full-length novels were co-written, which seemed odd because he seemed to do pretty well on his own, and a lot of recent stuff published as "Tom Clancy's" so-and-so weren't written by him at all. I found it kind of sad.

But, '80s Clancy was pretty awesome and I'm sorry to see anyone pass away that young.