Week Two Independent Reading

This week i read more of Tom Clancy's Patriot Games. This week i also saw the movie adaption of this book and so i decided to compare. In the book the character Jack Ryan is in a hospital for four and a half chapters, which is over fifty pages. In the movie however he is in the hospital for two sceens, which takes about two minutes of time. Also in the book the terrorist attack was on the Prince of Wales, his wife and their child. In the movie the attack was on Lord William Holmes, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and a distant member of the British Royal Family.

Week One Independent Reading

This week I read a portion of the book Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy. This book is about Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, who by sheer chance, stops a terrorist attack on British royalty. It was interesting how the book shows, that trained men do what they are trained to do, instinctively. It was also interesting how it showed how not all terrorist are just mindless trigger pullers, but that some are very educated and very strategic. I also found it funny how it showed how people under high dosages of pain-killers, tend to say things that they usually wouldn't.