Huntin w/ Ruskies!!!

A week or so ago, I can't now recall, I finished The Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy's break out thriller about submarine warfare in the cold war. It was Incredible!! I'm a huge fan of the movie, as noted by the fact that I watch it several times a year (which if you stop and think about that you'll realize watching any movie several times a year mean about every 4 months (think about it)), this being the case I'm familiar with the story line. But the book totally takes different turns!! Now I won't say Clancy is a literary genius because I felt that he brought in too many side stories, the book had ADD, but where he's the master is in his research and know how. There were so many aspects of naval stuff, tactics and all that, I never would have thought about. All I know is what the movies show me. For example when the commanding officer asks if they have a shooting solution, that process is wickedly complicated and not exact science. Cinema leads me to believe that torpedoes are point and shoot, not the case. And in the film version, and other movies I seen, subs hate to ping because it gives away their position, but in the book they just ping, ping, ping away. They have to ping in order to locate their target. Anyway the book was great, despite being extremely involved and detailed it remains engrossing. I was all wrapped up in the whole experience of the book.