Standard "guy" book. Special ops warfare and extreme language. ( )

Sam at the other Richard Marcinko is the greatest Navy Seal that ever lived. In his own mind that is. ( )

My longest posts are always the ones I liked the least.

I'm pretty sure this is the worst book I've read this year at least. Oh my god, it's just packed full of testosterone laden drivel. It's not that he's a macho doofus, I'm a macho doofus. It's that they are painfully juvenile.
This is the way it works. Dick Marchencko was a SEAL and did all these tough guy things. No problem. Sounds like the Yank version of Andy Mcnab. However, this series is Dick writing a fictional men's adventure series, like Remo Williams the Destroyer, or Mack Bolan the Executioner (both of which I have read an embarrassingly large amount of, so I'm not new to the realm of men's adventure fiction) except Dick is writing himself as a fictional character. To me, this is just daft as bats.
So this whole real person/fictional person thing is weird enough, but they are also written really really badly. They are a lot like the adventure fiction I wrote when I was in high school and I was able to rebel on paper by killing a lot of fictional characters and writing "fuckwad" a lot. Yes, very fierce. Oh, and his "Heart of the Warrior" speeches are as tiresome as when I first heard them in the SCA. Similar to the "What is best in life" speech in Conan.
The last pitiful element of the writing is that Dick is always right, and EVERYONE else is always wrong. Not only wrong, but in disagreeing with Dick, they also become evil, weak and cowardly. He isn't sophisticated enough to realize that when all your opponents are pussies, victory is not impressive. This is why I quit fencing in the Outlands.

I want my time back. ( )

The profanity was SO overwhelming I finally gave up. I read other thrillers, but this was to the point of disgust. ( )

i skipped work to meet Mr. Marcinko.. and it was WORTH IT! he signed all my books, was civil and patient, and i watched him have long chats with the men who served (veterans) who were ahead in line of me. i'm proud of him for his service and concern for security.