Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

This is Gene Wolfe's third installment of our favorite amnestic Roman mercenary known as Latro, Lewqys or Lucius depending on whether ...

This is a remarkable post-apocalyptic novel written in 1977 by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It certainly challenges the 1957 novel On...

I struggled with this book for about 75 pages, then I got it, then I lost it again, then I didn't understand what all the commotion wa...

This is a guest review from my eldest son, Deron: The Warlord Chronicles is Bernard Cornwell's interpretation of the story of King A...

Since I didn't read any of Bernard Cornwell's previous Saxon Tales, I was intrigued to find out if I could read this fifth book as...

A better title for this 1989 Brian Aldiss book would be "Forgotten Novel". Why is this novel written by the great science fictio...

Like Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience in 1849, authors around the world have penned books about social and political change. Di...

Here is the latest cliffhanger du jour from George R.R. Martin, the fifth book of the Song Of Ice and Fire  series. Hopefully, I won't...

Are spoilers needed when the first line in the novel says, "I held Vincent's skull in my hands yesterday"? I don't think...

This historical fiction novel tells the story of a Danish shipping town between the years 1848 and 1945. Carsten Jensen's 678 page nov...