Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Walter Van Tilburg Clark wrote this classic western in 1940 that challenges previous westerns by tearing down the usual cliches. This nov...

Nathaniel Hawthorne gives the reader a lesson in descriptive writing in this 1851 American Gothic novel. The purpose of descriptive writi...

It's conceivable that comments from one of my favorite historical fiction writers, Newt Gingrich, could have derailed Mitt Romney's ...

If you think Bing Crosby's 1949 movie was anything like Mark Twain's fantasy classic published in 1889... Forget It! Like the pr...

Famed actor and comedian Albert Brooks writes his first novel, a story of future politics and life in America that I found way too predic...

In 1851 Herman Melville published Moby Dick , and in 2012 China Mieville published the remake. Well, sort of. Actually, the only thing i...

A hodgepodge group of people board a flight from Paris to Croydon, and before they land, one turns up dead! Luckily, one of the passengers...

This is the seventh non-fiction book that I've read concerning U.S. presidents in the last year, and it ranks right up there with book...

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ! Whoops, wrong story. I meant, the aliens are coming, the aliens are coming! Whoops, no ...

The launching of Diane Setterfield's writing career couldn't have gone better. This novel published in 2006 is reminiscent of the ...