
Yesterday, I finally finished Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (German title: "Ehrenschuld"). I enjoyed it very mouch, although the amount of reading is enormous. The paperback copy I own has almost 1000 pages containing no pictures but a lot of small-printed text. Together with the limited time I have for reading, it took almost two months to get through it. I'm a little bit disappointed that my English reading ability is still so bad and plan to excersise this more.
As always, the book is very exciting - even or maybe especially at the very end. And as usually, Clancy uses his enormous knowledge about military and secret services to make the book realistic. The only thing I found slightly boring was the remarkable amount of submarine action happening. Somehow, I never manage to imagine what is exactly going on under water.
In comparison to e.g. "Without Remorse" (German title: "Gnadenlos"), the amount of violence is much lower. So my Tom Clancy to do list got reduced by one - the italic ones remain, the bold ones are read (
source of list: Wikipedia):
| English title | German title |
| Without remorse | Gnadenlos |
| Patriot Games | Die Stunde der Patrioten |
| Red Rabbit | Red Rabbit |
| The Hunt for Red October | Jagd auf Roter Oktober |
| The Cardinal of the Kremlin | Der Kardinal im Kreml |
| Clear and Present Danger | Der Schattenkrieg |
| The Sum of All Fears | Das Echo aller Furcht / Der Anschlag |
| Debt of Honor | Ehrenschuld |
| Executive Orders | Befehl von Oben |
| Rainbow Six | Operation Rainbow |
| The Bear and the Dragon | Im Zeichen des Drachen |
| The Teeth of the Tiger | Im Auge des Tigers |
I'll try to at least buy the remaining ones in the US, since they are much cheaper here. Maybe eventually I'll write something about Germany's system of fixed book prices.