I think that Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October might be the most uncool English-language novel

In my post on Carl Wilson's attempt to understand Celine Dion, I posited that Tom Clancy fills the same social space as Celine Dion--mass market art targeted towards older middle-class people--and, thus, has the same sort of inherent uncoolness. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Tom Clancy is one of the most uncool* writers that I kn…