Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Sunday, February 24, 2013

RINGWORLD

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What do a puppeteer, a kzin, and two humans have in common? They are going to Ringworld ! You thought I was going to say Disney World , ...

Time and Again

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This is a guest review from my eldest son, Deron: Time and Again is the classic time travel story by Jack Finney set in New York City...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

CATCH-22

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This uproarious satirical novel by Joseph Heller prompted me to think of Robert Crichton’s The Secret Of Santa Vittoria , another novel b...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Lightning Thief

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The following is a guest review of a Rick Riordan book by my most wonderful grandson, Kai Ohlarik: This book is mainly about Zeus’s lig...
Friday, February 8, 2013

THERE is no OTHERWISE

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The author sent me a copy of this short story to review: Not for nothing, this pleasing short story reminded me of Jay and the American...
Friday, February 1, 2013

HOUSE OF LEAVES

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This novel is not a sequel to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .  In fact, it’s not like anything I’ve ever read before. Welcome to the w...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

BONE RIVER

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This is the story of a very stoic group of people living in the Washington Territory of the Pacific Northwest during the mid 1800s. Megan...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

THE DOG STARS

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This novel by Peter Heller has more of a survival/adventure flavor than other apocalyptic novels. There have been many plague driven post...
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rick o.
I started reading in earnest during high school, because of a wonderful English teacher. I basically read the classics. I would buy one Signet Classic after another. My favorite being David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I stopped serious reading while serving four years in the U.S.Marine Corps. When I got out, I started reading every genre possible. I still like reading all types of novels including sci-fi, historical fiction, non-fiction and lately I like non-fiction that reads like fiction. A example would be 'Destiny of the Republic' by Candice Millard, or 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson. But knowing me, a new genre of writing could get my interest and I'll start reading that. I still read sci-fi, even if I'm hot on a new genre. So my thanks goes out to my teacher for opening my eyes to the likes of Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, and my favorite name, William Makepeace Thackeray.
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